Essentially any online game (aka games as a service) holds all rights to any money you give them, any virtual currency or goods you buy from them are under a limited license, which means you don't own any of it and they can take it away at any time. Coupled with a no refunds policy and indemnity clause in their TOS means that if you lose your account or access to the service, you're essentially fucked and they don't have to compensate any of your losses.
TL;DR:
Why aren't you free2play user?
idk why people aren't bumping this, this is some good advice
Most people already understand this though. Idk what you're proving here
Yes, people understand the consequences of frivolous spending well consoomer.
user is just a poorfag who can't afford to support some sweatshop game devs in Indonesia. Cope.
Yes because giving away all my money to a sociopathic corporation will totally go to befitting the overworked game developers, right? Brainlet.
Who said you had to give away all your money? Nothing wrong with spending a few dollars here or there. Jesus christ OP you sound like a whiney bitch. You shill $60 on the newest FPS maze gunner battle royale early access trash but shit on F2P games? Just shut up and stop complaining already, you sound like an absolute retard.
I remember when free flashgames on Newgrounds were unironically better than some of the trash online games you idiots play, this consoomer cope is ridiculous, BTFO
You know alot of the features in p2w games are just useless cosmetic shit right? Either that or some dumb ingame currency shit to speed up the boring ass grinding every game has to have these days. My god you're retarded.
Lmao this is severe poorfaggotry at its finest. user stop wasting your money on tendies or get a job, games make money what's fucking new retard? Lol
user on suicide watch for wasting his money on a shitty gatcha game LEL
More like fat whiny retard wants everything for free without paying. Just shut the fuck up already, sped.
Will you two retards stop fucking fighting please?
because i don't play shitty "games" designed to make me want to pay for some freemium garbage.
This entire thread is shit
most people don't spend money on freemium games. mist of the income comes from whales
you could make it better
I want to let whales whore out on the game, but they encourage other poor suckers to blow their money as well, which is why freenium games keep pushing out each week with this garbage. In general, if you don't own it, don't buy it.
Name a single modern online game that doesn't feature some cash-whoring ingame currency bullshit in their system
Deep Rock Galactic has in-game currency, but the only way to obtain it is to play the fucking game
>We are the tech-savvy parents who "didn't think" to use parental controls, didn't teach our kid the value of money, yet gave him his full back account credentials, but the developers have to refund us like weeks after the transactions happened!
God I fucking hate blameless parents like these
It's only good when they whale into debt or their game dies or they lose their account.
Then its funny as shit
>Why aren't you free2play user?
I'm not a cuckold spending time and energy on a game withholding content from me
having some cosmetic items totally unrelated to gameplay =/= having time gated content you can speed up with microtransactions
>Why aren't you free2play user?
So I don't have to play with and be surrounded by the likes of you.
Those parents are barely 25 to 35 and also idiots. I wouldnt let my child have access to my fucking bank account like that.
Give them an X amount disposable shop card, cant refuel it because its one shot.
Problem solved, fucking idiots
The best way to become F2P for good is to spend just once in the hopes of getting any non-guaranteed item to then realize it wasn't worth it and probably will never be.
I honestly wish I could see their reactions.
It doesn't matter for either, you don't own either. Goods and services you pay for according to these greedy devs only belong to them, virtual shit is a scam and people who pay for premiums in a game are getting scammed.
Over even better don't play F2P trash to begin with. Don't be a whale-enabler.
F2P trash is only relevant because it's popular. Fortnite, Roblox, EA games, Mobile games, ect are filled with millions of people. If they OWNED the content they paid for and devs can't just steal it away like the greedy shits they are then it wouldn't be a problem, unfortunately millions are ok with cucking their money over to corpo and letting them pull the plug and walk away without giving any compensation or refunds.
You never "owned" anything on GaaS anyway, F2P or not. Even before gacha was a thing on old school pre-WoW MMO which were all sub based, you didn't own your character, your currency etc. The Publisher could always at any given time suspend/terminate your account without having to provide a reason, cease the service in your territory with a minimum notice (usually 1~3 months), without any compensation besides refunding you the months of subscription you paid in advance etc.
You literally never owned anything on any online game. I'm not saying it's good, but it's always been like that.
>poor people
>being allowed to own things
Same person. IP count didn't increase.
I have spent £850 on League over the years.
£20 here and there really fucking adds up.
I know it's not new, but it is clearly getting worse. If you bought a game with multiplayer access, say minecraft, no matter how much of a fucking douchebag you were on that game, no matter how much hacking you do, you will NEVER lose your right to play the game you PAID FOR. Newer games are moving towards a more "leasing" business model, alot of them infact. You can devote years and thousands of dollars into the game you love, to play with your friends, then one day the mods decide to pull some shit and ban you for a shit reason. Now you lost all the time, money and memories you put into your account and are not allowed to recover it at all. It's not just becoming more popular, it is already turning into the standard model for newer games. That's why people need to stop indulging these companies to continue this practice with their money, if a game is complete without spending any money whatsoever, then that is the safest way to play a online game. Unless you are entitled to what you pay in a online game you shouldn't pay for anything at all no matter how much hype it receives. It's dangerous for consumers and without any laws to protect consumers companies will continue to extort people for premium garbage.
You realize if Riot bans your account you don't get back any of that right?
Aye.
But it's one of the reasons I barely chat in game.
The only right consumers deserve is the right to shut up and consume more product.