Go for a ride with three of your friends and be the last car driving in H1Z1: Auto Royale, a new mode in Daybreak Game Company's battle royale game, which launched and went free-to-play earlier this month!...
By Jason Winter -
Free to Play Cast: H1Z1, Artifact & DOTA 2 Sub, and Crunch Time Literally Kills Ep. 255
On this week's show H1Z1 goes free-to-play, despite Jason's prediction a week earlier, Valve disappoints with Artifact and angers with DOTA 2's subscription model, and Netmarble is forced to change employment practices after 3 employees die. All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!
Discussion Timestamps:
01:46 H1Z1 Free Switch
18:38 Artifact and DOTA 2 Sub
39:51 Netmarble's Crunch Time Kills 3
44:48 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
57:35 Questions and Answers of the Week
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For the question of the week: Anything that is an advantage that can only be obtained via real money, is pay to win in my opinion, so yes, it's pay to win. Also, seems scummy.
Da-Bomb to FF14. I know it's not F2P but I've recently returned to start fresh as a healer on a new server and I'm loving it. The homey vibe and aesthetic win me over every time.
QOTW:
My personal definition of P2W excludes DOTA Plus. This isn't to say that I like the idea of it or think that it is a wise move by valve, but I don't think paying for the immediate information on builds, stats and tactics is giving anybody an advantage that you couldn't get without paying. In fact, I think this is only going to hurt those players who pay. They are paying to stop thinking and make decisions according to prompts.. that is certainly not how you win.
QOTW : This is long i'm sorry ...
Ok so , how is a guide pay to win ? It doesn't affect the gameplay or the in game stats in the slightest , it's probably good for the noobis , but even then they will probably be completely lost if you let a pc tell you how to play instead of learning , for the veterans this is completely useless , yes this should be available to every single player , but having a AI tell me that as a support i should support my team ,sorry but i can't see that as pay to win , yes there is more to it but then again it' only good for players under 100 hours in game and i'm saying as a player that has 10K + hours in game