Free to Play Cast: SWTOR Bugs Crash Competition Hopes Ep. 130

"I got a guy with a lightsaber, this is cool, I'm gonna keep playing" This is absolutely accurate

How does anyone expect to pay for anything without anything coming in? F2P or not, as a company, they need to find ways to keep the income coming in regardless of what they want to do with the money. Nothing is free in life, there is always something you need to trade for in exchange. I find it pointless for anyone to complain about cash shops and other means to make money and I also find it pointless to complain about access to the game by paying and have players who have no technical knowledge for bug reporting but you have to see it as stress testing the servers. There is some things we don't agree on when they're handling these games for revenue but again, maintaining a game to be publicly accessed region or world wide is not cheap. period. As person who maintains a budget and do technical work, buying a component that has no graphical processing power for games but for basic office needs, it is VERY expensive just to hold down 300+ employee's with what they use. A single server used in this building to manage just recordings and live stream alone cost 6,000 bucks. How much do you think our room we call a Data Center is worth? the power consumption? and with so much equipment in use 24/7, tomorrow one component may fail, commercial parts price point is pricey.

I agree with KESTA24 on founders packs and early access. if games are advertised as free2play then why aren't they. rather than making those of us we can't or don't want to pay to play on the off wait 1 to 2 year before we get into a free2play game.
Surely there no reason why free2play game can't be free from the start and have better cash shop items.
Take H1Z1 dev's for instance, on there website at the bottom it says "FREE TO PLAY. YOUR WAY.®
OUR PHILOSOPHY IS SIMPLE. FREE GAMES. NO COMMITMENT.
AND IF YOU WANT TO BUY, IT'S ON YOUR TERMS." yet you have to pay for Landmark and H1Z1 even though they should be free, plus you have to make a commitment by paying to play.
I also have a question to Mike and Jason is: If you can design make a free2play game what genre would go for?

I have to give A bomb too mmo industry for sinking down in to Rubbish they call Founders pack, I mean in old days you would get payed to test out games find bugs and help develop games, but now you have to pay to play something unfinished and in the end people that test out the game are 12 yeas old that has no idea about their responsibilities, reason why so much bugs is left untouched at the end of betas.
As for answer too question of the week I have no one instead how about doing that with people that created the game, but idea in itself is great and should be used more, just add people that work behind the scene .