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RMT is Polarizing
Nerfbat —
... I have to protect myself from myself and not play them. So I don’t. The free-to-play RMT model might work in the US. It might not. Maybe a tiered model would work… free for basic stuff like playing and leveling (antenna channels), cheap for some stuff like questing (basic/standard cable), extra for premium options like raiding or PvP (movie channels). Who knows? We might find out if BioWare’s MMO is microtransaction-based. We’ll see.
Thanks to Mercury on Broken Toys for making the observation that RMT is polarizing; it’s obvious, but ...
It’s Beginning… To Look A Lot Like… Pontification
Broken Toys —
It’s time for PREDICTIONS, that being the job of every pundit this time of year. But first, let’s see how I did last year so you can judge whether or not you should bother to read the rest of this post!
This is going to be a slow year for MMOs… …In the next few years following, we’ll see the results of everyone trying to go all aikido and step where WoW isn’t. But for this next year or so, you’re going to see the effect of an entire MMO industry three to four years ago going “Holy crap. They sold how many boxes? And our entire development team is in a WoW guild? Hmm.”
I’m going to call ...
