Shadowrun Online F2P model explained

@Gravity_Slave Uh it actually was the opposite.  The console people couldn't keep up with the PC people...  Mouse and keyboard rule.  I love consoles I have all of them but I cannot play FPS games on them.  Too used to mouse and keyboard.  They add extra tricks to consoles so you don't notice like auto aiming....

@Jestersmiles  Dota 2 is the worst everything is micro transactions and has very little content, no wonder it is still in beta.... LOL is way ahead of the game...

Does Lol and smite count as f2p?

@Jestersmiles when did GW2 become f2p I kinda wanted to try that game but didn't wanna pay the 50 dollars to buy it incase its just a grindfest like every other mmo

Well its is kind of. F2P is mostly used to exploit in such way that you pay much more like for a full prices title.And if you don't pay then the game annoys you or slows your progress to a crawl

@Jestersmiles The only thing close to good in that list is Path of Exile. Guild Wars 2 is one of the least horrible MMORPGs I've played, but that doesn't exactly make it good.

Dota 2 is not a game. It's a griefing simulator that's fun to play when I'm too tired to play a game, or when I'm eating and can't think of something to watch on Youtube. I'll just make some breakfast, and I can click to feed the enemy team while I feed myself IRL.

In short, none of those games are worth playing. Neither will Shadowrun Online. Not that anybody cares, since we'll be playing Shadowrun Returns soon.

@spindie educate yourself before you speak , idiot. 

@spindie Injustice iOS is the only F2P game I play & I don't have to buy anything with real money :D

@spindie That's like flipping off the entire PC library.

@exedeath The PC is the best platform for gaming, and the most versatile. You can hook up a controller to a PC if you want to -- I was playing Hotline Miami with one last night -- but you can't hook up a mouse and keyboard to a console. Which generally means MMOs are out of the question for consoles. So no Shadowrun for you.

@crunchb3rry I can count. 0. I don't spend money recklessly or needlessly. The same applies to F2P games. The only time I've spent money has been on two games, both of which only 3 weeks after playing. I paid because I wanted to support the company for creating a game that I've spent 3 weeks enjoying. That 3 weeks is a hell of a lot more time than I spent playing 60 dollar games like Assassins Creed.

@crunchb3rry And how, exactly, would you go about getting a refund for a game that was free?

@midgar 

I agree with your poinnts.  Since all games need money to survive, I think that making a sub a good option even in F2P games (and one that's the end all be all) is the way to go.

Honestly, so many F2P games treat the player so disrespectfully and cheat them so much that I find it worth paying a subscription just to get better treatment and a better experience.

Or at least the option where you pay for the box, and the online play is free.  Anything where you get your money's worth and the money's requested from you respectfully.

@---Cipher--- That's what the whole structure of that kind of free to play game relies on.  They're scams.  I know this 10 year old free to play MMORPG that still doesn't legitimately have someone at its level cap yet(legitimately because other publishers cranked up the XP rates beyond what the game intended).  People actually whine about losing training time when the servers go down... it's ridiculous.

@JURGMANDR DOTA 2 model is pretty much the best microtransactions model you will ever find.

@JURGMANDR Unless your buying power I'm happy with the model in play mostly.

Planet Side 2 was alright because your picked what gun suits you the most, no need for buying everything, that's not how it works, silly to think that.

Path of Exile looked good from what I saw too.

@JURGMANDR What's wrong with the LOL model?  There's always 10 characters that are free to play, and they rotate them every week to provide variety.  If there's a particular character you want to play all the time, it doesn't take long at all to have enough virtual credits to permanently unlock them.