Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls
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Because it's a good way to get a ton of people to stop playing seasons. Gating content behind a paywall on a game that is already box based is pretty shitty. They'd sell a bunch sure, but it's just a bad idea. They should be selling cosmetics, shit doesn't hurt anybody, and it'd make similar amounts of money probably with all the idiots spending all their money buying pointless shit. Pets, portraits, those ugly ass banners, wings, even transmogs. And obviously stash space. Shit's already integrated too since they're doing in the chinese client, so it's basically no cost to add and just free money.
Mr Creed
Too old for this shit
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I would not play season if I had to pay for it. Season isnt offering anything special that warrants charging money. If they added actual content to seasons that might be different, but right now all a seaon means is getting a fresh start (fun, and the reason I bother with season at all), a dozen drops that arent in the regular pool (yet), and a leaderboard to see who bots the most.
Edit: I would buy stash space without a second thought. Maybe cosmetics too but the models/engine arent that great for selling cosmetics imo.
Edit: I would buy stash space without a second thought. Maybe cosmetics too but the models/engine arent that great for selling cosmetics imo.
Because it is the wrong way to make money. The best F2P models make you actively want to log in and sell you cosmetics and QOL things. If Diablo forced you to pay $5 to unlock a season no one would log in to play.
aywall Seasons::RerolledI don't poopsock or anything. I'm only Paragon 550ish. I would pay 5 bucks each season to play.
I'm sure many would but most would not. You can look at pretty much any F2P model and the amount of people who pay $0 is staggering. The real money made off F2P isn't a crowd of people chipping in a little is is generally off a smaller population chipping in a ton.
I play seasons because it brings my friends back. If it cost me 5 bucks to do that I would easily. I understand how other games do their F2P models but that doesn't mean every game could make it on the same models. As has been brought up here, you almost can't do cosmetics because shit still looks like pixelated crap. You can't do random fag housing without a serious code rewrite. I'm not saying Blizzard needs the money or even cares about it. I'm just saying if it were the case I would pay for it.
Vorph
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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They'd have to pay me to play seasons after slogging through the bullshit of the first two, and not with the cosmetic 'rewards' you get now but something tangible like stash tabs. No idea how you people can stand to farm the same shit from zero over and over.
I still can't believe that some people are ok with the idea of them charging money for stash upgrades either. It's a fucking $100 game, at least for people who got in at release, and there's no excuse for even considering microtransactions of that sort.
I still can't believe that some people are ok with the idea of them charging money for stash upgrades either. It's a fucking $100 game, at least for people who got in at release, and there's no excuse for even considering microtransactions of that sort.
Mudcrush Durtfeet
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Amzin
Lord Nagafen Raider
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Yea I'd definitely not do Seasons if it cost anything. I barely played this season because there was finally shit to do in non-seasonal, and honestly I've still got 3-4 characters I could gear/spec up in non-seasonal. If I've leveled a character up to 70 every season so far, plus god knows how many hundreds of hours into the game itself (even before it was arguably good), and I wouldn't pay $5, I suspect a huge fucking majority wouldn't.
AladainAF
Best Rabbit
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I actually like what White Knight Chronicles 2 did, though it was much more pay to win style, but you could "buy" buffs. You could buy higher drop rates, buy +exp, buy +gold, etc.
I'd certainly pay for shit like higher drop rates.
from wkc2:
Dahlia Ticket 2,99 Boosts by 20% the dahlia earned for finishing quests.
Experience Ticket 2,99 Boosts by 20% the experience earned for defeating enemies.
GR Ticket 2,99 Boosts by 20% the guild points (GP) earned for finishing quests.
Guilder Ticket 2,99 Boosts by 20% the guilder (money) earned for defeating enemies or finishing quests.
Item Ticket 3,99 Boosts the droprate and quantity of defeated enemies. See page for details.
Results Ticket 3,99 Boosts the number of items earned for finishing quests.
I'd certainly pay for shit like higher drop rates.
from wkc2:
Dahlia Ticket 2,99 Boosts by 20% the dahlia earned for finishing quests.
Experience Ticket 2,99 Boosts by 20% the experience earned for defeating enemies.
GR Ticket 2,99 Boosts by 20% the guild points (GP) earned for finishing quests.
Guilder Ticket 2,99 Boosts by 20% the guilder (money) earned for defeating enemies or finishing quests.
Item Ticket 3,99 Boosts the droprate and quantity of defeated enemies. See page for details.
Results Ticket 3,99 Boosts the number of items earned for finishing quests.
Zaphid
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Cinge
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Boy this and the guy who would pay $5 for season..
And you wonder why game companies are doing what they are doing..
Well they would have to offer more than they are with the current setup. It has to feel like a small expansion.
Khane
Got something right about marriage
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A game with a season or ladder system like Diablo has can't do pay for anything other than cosmetics because it alienates too much of the playerbase and causes smaller populations to participate. It's fine in non seasonal stuff. It works well in Marvel Heroes since you don't need to buy anything at all and still make very good progress with very good drop rates. But the second you put a competitive focus such a leaderboard into the mix you gotta throw all that shit out the window.