Last edited by Methais; 09-08-2017 at 10:23 AM.
>forage for snapdragon stalk
d100(Open): -251
You stumble about in a fruitless attempt at foraging.
1/6/2014: Setheve completes the promotion ritual and says, "Congratulations, Whirlin, for achieving Guild Master status! We trust you'll serve your guild well."
1/11/2014: Grandmaster Alchemist
1/14/2014: Capped, and got Loralaii killed by a GM.
7/11/2016: Founded the Hand of the Arkati
9/20/2016: T5 on my bow (Thanks to Isola)... Managed as far as T4 myself.
The model is not really terrible until you consider where and how prevalent the microtransactions get. More and more paywalls go up, more and more gambling systems. That's where it gets bad. Subscription+ is not a terrible model even when compared to MMOs, because MMOs generally get quick infusions of cash by charging for expansions, which Simutronics has never done. Their sole income other than the Microtransactions is the subscriptions. The problematic model comes in where they take pages out of the books of all the worst microtransaction systems to take advantage of addled gambling addicts while alienating over time the bulk of the playerbase with paywalls.
Last edited by Stumplicker; 09-08-2017 at 10:54 AM.
Until you remember that there are still basic things, like spell lists, that are still incomplete after 30 years with little to no priority put on them, while pay2win dev is nonstop and manages to get everything completed on time.
Yeah. I was referring to Simu's model in particular. I should have specified that.
Last edited by Methais; 09-08-2017 at 11:06 AM.
What does this even mean? GSIV has the largest sub requirement of any game I've ever heard of with paid events AND expensive microtrans events. By nearly any way of measuring GSIV/Simu seem far more despicable than the likes of EA/Origin and even someone like Bobby Kotick.
Last edited by Alashir; 09-08-2017 at 11:48 PM.
The only rude person I met was a taxi driver in kagoshima. I was going from the train station to the ferry to take it over to an island and was showing him my papers and he was like "oh, climb mountain?" and I'm like "hai, yep!" and he made a muscle pose(bent arm, whatever you call it) laughed, and rubbed my belly.. like "oh, no, you fat american fuck, you no get up there", but whatever - Japhrimel
I don't want to go too in depth here because I think by the time most people are arguing line by line they've lost each other. I originally responded with "semantics" because you appeared to be arguing that simu is still investing while turning a profit. This is technically true but I would argue only by the slimmest of margins. To be honest I had a hard time following your breakdown of the revenue report with your numerous extrapolations, anecdotes, conversions, and assumptions. Without looking at any numbers at any time, I don't think it's unfair to say that GSIV isn't getting its due diligence in the form of money being put back into the game in order to make it something substantially greater tomorrow than it is today. Do I really have to point out basics like unfinished spell circles, classes that have been advertised but not released for years, and perhaps most important of all; the forums and the main website itself.
It's odd to me to hear you defending simu/stillfront because they've done such a horrible job at investing in GSIV but I guess it could be worse so therefore they're not all that bad? I guess it technically could be worse but not by a whole lot.
Last edited by Alashir; 09-09-2017 at 12:00 AM.
The only rude person I met was a taxi driver in kagoshima. I was going from the train station to the ferry to take it over to an island and was showing him my papers and he was like "oh, climb mountain?" and I'm like "hai, yep!" and he made a muscle pose(bent arm, whatever you call it) laughed, and rubbed my belly.. like "oh, no, you fat american fuck, you no get up there", but whatever - Japhrimel
This is the very thing that kills me. Simu is efficiently turning Gemstone into a richly text-edited casino game. Their idea of game development is to change the stat names and add a few more meaningless races to the roster.
As an aside, can someone explain to me how the fuck we ended up with Aelotoi and Erithrians in my Tolkien genre video game? What brilliant mind squeezed out this gentle fart of an idea and thought it was an improvement? More than that, who the fuck agreed with them?
They should seriously discontinue these species altogether. Yeah, just go ahead and call me racist.
I also wonder how much of that "investment" back into GS comes in the form of compensation from pay events/microtransactions. What I mean is we know the GMs get a cut of these paid events/microtransactions so it incentivizes them to work on those projects in lieu of other projects. So if these paid events/microtransactions never existed I wonder what Simu's overhead would look like compared to what it is now, something tells me the percentage of their overhead would be lower. So it's not so much they are investing more back into GS, it's probably more like they are paying their GMs more now but that extra work they are doing is going towards pay events/microtransactions.
So they go tell their friends. "hey this is good shit come try it!" Then the friends come and say "hey this is good shit! I am going to tell my friends!" Then you grow your business. You don't grow by just feeding mediocre shit to people for as long as they will eat it. Then just letting your business die. Thats like the stupidest business model ever.