Free to Play Cast: TERA's Ninjas, Dreadnought, and F2P Whales Ep 179
Whales spend money in small chunks, what game should be free-to-play, TERA's latest update, and Dreadnought gets reviewed. All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!
Discussion Timestamps:
01:15 Free Survey Results and Whales
16:10 TERA's Upcoming Update
30:45 Dreadnought Review
34:44 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
44:30 Questions and Answers of the Week
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Free-To-Play Cast is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about free to play multiplayer online games. Free-To-Play Cast takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!
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By Michael Byrne - 3 weeks ago
I loathe free to play style lockboxes. By their nature they're exploitative and try to latch on to all the worst elements of addiction. They don't publish the odds of getting the main prize, so it could be as low as 0.001% (as estimated in Neverwinter's ones). They're designed to get people to gamble real cash frivolously, which itself is usually obfuscated by in-game currencies to make you think you're spending less than you are. Studios exploit further by focussing on lockboxes, then selling subs that give you keys each day to open one -- creating an illusion that the sub is great value.
Just as an aside... would have been better if you'd had popcorn Magicman, just sayin'.