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Originally Posted by zrog2000
Except that I've never whined about paying to win, so we basically have the same freaking point that no one wants to acknowledge. I paid to win in bronze, silver and gold! There are many people who see the purgatory that a lot of players get put into when they stop spending money and that is the point when they lose interest in the game. That is a problem, whether you want to call it whining or not.
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It may or may not be a problem. All OOTP has to do is retain the top 5 to 10% of its biggest spenders.
I've read a few articles in the past year about microtransactions in games. They were both basically saying the same thing, which is that in pretty much any game you play, there are people that won't spend a cent, some that will spend a little bit, and then the whales. In both articles I read, it was established the top 5 to 10% of people who do spend money spend more than the remaining 90% combined, which means all OOTP has to do is cater to that small percentage to continue making money while finding ways to make the whales spend more, because it was also mentioned the whales are a lot more likely to spend extra money than the guy who put 20$ in.
Sadly I don't have the links to the articles as I read them quite a bit ago, but that was pretty much the jest of it.
Since the goal of the company is to make money, the small amount you spent does not justify them catering to what you want, or need. The company should focus mostly on that select group of people that provided most of the money. That doesn't mean a few things they will do won't also affect you positively, but rest assured that in a game mode where the sole purpose is to PTW and generate money, the money that will be reinvested in the game mode will be spent in a way that will lead the people who already spend the most to spend more. The byproduct of that might enhance your enjoyment of the mode, or it may make it seem even more like a carrot dangling behind a paywall.
That's what successful microtransactions games have done in the past. That's what will more than likely happen here too.
And that's why this mode is not for me. And it's ok to get to that conclusion, too. I'll be spending my few extra bucks where my skill can help me close the gap on a few opponents, at least from time to time.