Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 2 days agoI think your need to do some inflation adjustment, their costs increase a lot as well. And raw “record profits” aren’t meaningful when not inflation adjusted.
They added microtransactions to both Runescape 3 and Oldschool, bonds never existed back then, so now you can buy gold in game, which is huge insane revenue amount for them. World of Warcraft has never had to increase costs even once.
BonerMan@ani.social 2 days ago
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WOW did increase costs, is heavily monetized with micro transactions and thats basically state of the art for mmorpgs right now. The server and development costs are huge for such service games and a company needs to make profits, i don’t say there is no greed involved, but i do understand some of the decisions.
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ohh darn you’re right. I misremembered. Thought it was always 15.
BonerMan@ani.social 2 days ago
Yeah i also understand you that pushing micro transactions sucks for the players.
Buttflapper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s honestly crazy how horrifically they monetized RS3. You’re spammed with login notifications for your free gambling opportunities. Idk what it is now but it was squeal of Fortune, then some weird chest opening game you get two keys from or you get them from just playing the game and at random. Met a guy who spent $3600 on getting his skills up. Unfathomable to me