Seto
micro payment aka cash shop is just what it sounds like. A way to pay for a game with out a monthly sub. Instead of paying 10 a month you pay a buck per item 5 per item pack or what have you. You buy in game items or money or special money for real world money. The problem is this these systems fast create a elite class of player. The casher the guy to dumps 500 1k 10k a month or a 100k a year on the game and gets all the fancy power player gear. He out paces every one else in game then others try to catch up and do the same etc. Makes the game tons of money. But at the same time the devs have to try and keep up with demand for new content. So they start making content that has nearly nothing to do with the game and then absolutely nothing to do with the game.
Do you ant to see hover bike mounts in game or how about angelic garments and wings ? The point is this. Cash shop + ryzom = a ryzom none of us would know. What makes ryzom ryzom would be burried under
a mountain of fluff and psudo content the community would be burried under eliist players who only care about one thing becoming more powerful than the other guy. Then it happens you see the forums fill up with posts about how all the ryzom team does is take your money and give nothing in return. Those same players will still dump 1000s all the while complaining constantly about the game. These fears are not unfounded. To see all of this just go to r2games.com and look at any of their dozen + games there take your pick but the biggest mess in all gaming history has to be wartune one i played just before coming here. Some players there have spent a feee hundred thousdand dolars just to be in the top 2 or 3 on their server.
Ask if you really thing this is the sort of thing ryzom needs and if you want to take the chance that that is what ryzom will become. I can tell you it is a huge risk and highly likely it will become exactly that....
Seto I don't mean to make this personal but my guess is you don't have many masters and really don't understand that someone speeding $1000 in ryzom wouldn't make them a better player then anyone else because everyone can master every single skill and as I stated in my earlier posts, the knowledge of the game it self makes you elite not your gear, in ryzom everything is player crafted so the last thing that's needed in a cash shop is gear.
I have played since closed beta and have subbed up to 9 accounts at once, ryzom has already taken thousands of dollars of my money and never given any great content because there are NO PAID STAFF TO DEVELOP THE CONTENT.
Two new Light armor NPC bosses some website based fluff like occupations and new horizons In 12 years...
Oh and don't forget the great gear and item wipe where everyone lost everything they had colleted over years of playtime because all three language server had to be merged... Reason being lack of finances to keep all three servers running.
There are many other micro payment games that make millions and release awesome content, the latest being supercell... Which makes millions a day from mobile app based games..maybe some of you have heard of clash of clans, boom beach or clash royal.
The new generation of gamers have all embraced the micro payment system, because it allows you to spend nothing to be able to enjoy the full game. While others spend hundreds and enjoy the same content.
All your doing is fear mongering because you had a bad experience in a crappy browser game which was gear based where you didn't have the money to buy the items others bought?