Let’s apply your logic on real life for an instant, imagine a product you really need in your daily life, for work, for home, for studies, lets take the internet access for example.
Now imagine one of the companies behind that product winning the market and create its own monopoly, you will only have them to provide the service for you, and their plans are as follow:
- $50/month you have a link of 5MB/s and monthly consume of 5GB.
- $100/month you have a link of 10MB/s and monthly consume of 10GB
- $150/month you have a link of 15MB/s and monthly consume of 15GB
You can complain all you want, but that is what you get for those absurd prices since it’s their monopoly.
They are better at controlling it, they won and you lose lots, but still need them by the beginning and end of the day.
Now, imagine the same situation, and every single person who was their client cancel the service, what happens now?
It’s the same here, monopoly doesn’t make things better, don’t help anyone, be it directly or indirectly.
Don’t force something on others just because it’s a game, it’s not who is suffering at the end of the line that will lose, it’s everyone, who is selling and specially the company behind the game.
You guys keep looking at yourselves instead of the big picture, if the game suffer more loses, it will shut down, and whatever hard earned money, be it real or in-game currency you earned, will be lost same way.
I look at this forums every single day, catch a glimpse of some serious threads like this one, we argue, discuss the pros and cons of the idea, but in every single one of them, whoever try to counter argument some of the ideas is only looking at their side.
Coming here and brag or whatever you want call saying you are buying TP in bulks, no one gives a ■■■■ except the company behind the game, but if the game have no players, all that bulk you bought will be eliminated when they decide to shut down.
Money earned by selling items found is different from afkers.
RMT and bots are a plague, it’s the game company who have to deal with them, but as you can see, IMC don’t give a damn about it.
Afkers can’t complain about losing money, they aren’t even making an effort, also, a game company that give a way of afk farm is pretty idiot, take a look at Mu Online, the game is already boring as hell and they have a built-in bot system.
Same for ToS, the game have potential, but look at it right now.
This is why I was so against of releasing the game in this state, IMC is far from a professional game developer imo.
You can.