Free to Play Cast: NCSoft, WildStar, and Blade & Soul Ep. 140
On this week's show, we welcome Free to Play Weekly's host, Zach Sharpes, as we dig into NCSoft's financials, their plans for Blade & Soul, the fate of WildStar, reddit moderation, anonymous sources, and so much more. All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast
Discussion Timestamps:
01:46 NCSoft/WildStar/Blade & Soul
30:52 ArcheAge reddit Banning "P2W"
31:57 Age of Conan
32:00 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
37:58 Questions and Answers of the Week
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On official forums it's essentially up to company. If they moderate too heavily people will post elsewhere (ironically, normally reddit).
As for the question of the week, Reddit mods shouldn't be playing nanny with pay to win topics. There's an up/down vote system in place on purpose. If the community doesn't want to talk about it, they'll down vote the posts. If that community wants to be toxic, well, they can be, but the rest of us down to earth folk will simply avoid that game.
To answer your weekly question, it is a bit conflicting as there are ups to banning topics such as those but there are also downs. Reddit has always been a website where people could discuss topics freely, some people use it to vent their frustrations towards something (Mostly Video Games). Troll comments will never stop no matter how hard we all try, they have been a part of the internet for such a long time that it has become a social norm in the world that is the internet. Should topics be banned? Absolutely not... it's against the rules to do so in Reddit, MOD OR NOT.
PS: I think Carbine might get bought out in the future.
Well i find it unreasonable to ban conversation over a bad mouthing it's like slapping every guy that curses near you when you speaking of science.
A-Bomb: H1Z1 i see a lot of people see banning hackers/cheaters good thing ignoring the fact its beta each one of those guys managed too find flaw in the code providing usefulness data and then that youtube circus is more of shameless marketing then lesson too players. So i say A-bomb for inability to approach problems right.
Da-Bomb: too steam for making a fun game i could not play because of cash shop made by gamigo playable.
Request for the podcast to talk more about whats the hype now, like Tree of Savior, and some Foreign Fridays for games like Master X Master to be reviewed for a possible western release "really hoping for a western release".