Famicom Dojo Podcast: Free 2 Play

by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Famicom Dojo Podcast, Podcasts on Feb.07, 2014

Phil Bond on the subject of f2p gaming: “When you make a game where paying any money whatsoever feels like cheating, that has to be a mistake — right?” Or, as Vinnk puts it, you can pay to play more, or pay to play less. Sometimes both in the same game. Just don’t say that Nintendo should follow this model, or… we’ll say something not nice, or something. Vinnk and Sean trade stories of their particular Free-2-Play addictions (Puzzles and Dragons, and Candy Crush, respectively), and their guilt over never paying any money for these games, leaving it to “whales” to support the entire system. And Vinnk may have inadvertently made his daughter into a gold farmer.

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http://famicomdojo.tv/podcast/84

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Tags: Candy Crush Saga, Free to Play, GungHo Online Entertainment, iOS, Puzzle and Dragons, steam, The Stanley Parable

uglyjoe

One of my college room mates used to play Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD) on BBSs. While in college, he was able to find a server for it that would still let you connect and play it in a terminal (over the Internet, but not via a web interface).

I found the limited turns things kind of refreshing at first, since a short play-time was part of the game’s design. Over time, though, it started to become a chore. I was hitting that “if I don’t use today’s turns, then I’ll fall behind!” mentality. That got old pretty fast, so I stopped (also: cheaters).

Is that relevant? I dunno. I just thought I’d chime in since it was nice to hear Vinnk call out the similarities between F2P and BBS games.

Oh, and Portal is really fun but also overrated. Sarcastic narrator = best writing in a video game? What?

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