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EA: Microtransactions are the future!

Posted on Friday, 14 August 2009 by Speed, source: Gamespot
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In the future you'll have to pay for this guy in your game!
Speaking at the Edingburgh Interactive Festival, Peter Moore stated that the future is free-to-play online games, funded by microtransactions.
While traditional game retail will be part of EA's business for a "very, very long time," free-to-play online games are "the future of where our key franchises are going," he said. Paid subscription models will be key, but microtransactions will be the company's main way of making a success of these franchises, he said. Moore gave the example of a Tiger Woods game that's initially free to play, but in which 50 cents will get players a better golf club, or a $5-a-month subscription will unlock new courses on a regular basis.
To be honest, I find the whole "microtransactions" business model being a downer for all creativity.

Look at it this way: you pay for a basic game and everything that makes it more "fun" needs to be paid for. To be honest, I prefer paying 60 euros to get a full experience instead of paying nothing to get a half-finished product and then having to pay small amounts of money for small things until I finally reach what I initially wanted and in the end spent more than 60 euros.

And who will want to spend money on a basic game in the first place?
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L0k1-

L0k1-

the only genre i can approve micro transactions are with F2P mmorpgs, the costs for running and supporting the development of such games aint free, so micro payments are a way to get enough money to stay online and to let the majority play their game for free.

Of course if you are already paying for a game.... then it's an insult to the gamer to start asking money for small things, things that were in the past free of charge.
the only genre i can approve micro transactions are with F2P mmorpgs, the costs for running and supporting the development of such games aint free, so micro payments are a way to get enough money to stay online and to let the majority play their game for free. Of course if you are already paying for a game.... then it's an insult to the gamer to start asking money for small things, things that were in the past free of charge.
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Posted on 21:44, August 14th 2009
Speed

Speed

guess you didn't get it. Moore's idea is that all games become free to play and that you pay for additional stuff
guess you didn't get it. Moore's idea is that all games become free to play and that you pay for additional stuff
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Posted on 21:51, August 14th 2009
Anonymous

Anonymous

I like it, I'd be able to play some of the good ones then. Micro transactions > Pay monthly.
I like it, I'd be able to play some of the good ones then. Micro transactions > Pay monthly.
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Posted on 00:10, August 15th 2009
L0k1-

L0k1-

Anonymous:
I like it, I'd be able to play some of the good ones then. Micro transactions > Pay monthly.


sadly it has always been proven that micro payments cannot give the same quality as a subscription based MMO.

Take for example Runes of Magic, currently the best F2P mmo with micropayments... it can't even come near World of Warcraft, which itself isn't really that advanced if you look at its features :)
[quote][b]Anonymous:[/b] I like it, I'd be able to play some of the good ones then. Micro transactions > Pay monthly.[/quote] sadly it has always been proven that micro payments cannot give the same quality as a subscription based MMO. Take for example Runes of Magic, currently the best F2P mmo with micropayments... it can't even come near World of Warcraft, which itself isn't really that advanced if you look at its features :)
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Posted on 22:45, August 15th 2009

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