Originally Posted by
Zireael07
I believe low requirements are a very good thing, especially if my internet can't handle data-intensive games. All I can play are MUDs (text-based games for these who don't know what it is) and Toribash.
you just proved my point. now tell me what is your pay ability and are you ready/capable to spend money on toribash, let's say 10-20 usd ( $ )
and are you able / comfortable to donate money to get some hight qi items/tc ?
let's look on game from a bit different perspective.
we have a f2p model, where you supposed to
PAY for customization. And this is supposed to be nabi income.
at the moment practicly noone
PAY to get tc or items directly from nabi. when people
PAY to get tc they buy it from random guys at market forum. but most of time noone pay anything at all, because you can get all tc you need by betting, tourney servers and duels.
tc income to players should be controlled to prevent situation of completely broken economy as we got now.
most income nabi get right now is consist of vip/prime, instead of actual customization. i hope you undertsand thats it's not how things supposed to work.
so, by the laws of logic, are people who play free to play game only because they can't play any other games due EXTREMELY outdated hardware and connection have ANY pay ability?
i guess not really. and if f2p game will continue to carter to people who have no pay ability it would not have any profits which result in stagnation ( we have same game for 5 years straight )
and lack of motivation.
from my stand point, i'm ready to pay for a quality indie game which deliver me unique and enjoyable experience and quality content, but if game feels, plays and have bugs like some early beta version, i'm not sure if thats really worth it.
but don't worry, most likely hamp isn't going to change anything at all except adding some hair, music, replays sync and new matchmaking instead of fixing real problems with the game and game economy. kinda sad to see a great idea to be not properly executed.
i'm all for game purchasing model
IF hamp will continue to develop and upgrade the game, instead of current stagnation. but thats all marketing issues which should be solved ages ago. there are also tons of great suggestion regarding game itself, but since any major changes will affect people with crap pc and crap internet, he don't give a try to make it.
as result, people with shit pc who have completely no pay ability stop the progress of game developement and barely support the game if they do it at all. good game toribash.
this is what tb got for being bounded to low system and internet requirements.
increasing game quality and make it look like a real game instead of some alpha/beta even if that will mean no backward compability with earlier versions, will still better then keeping things as they are right now.
fix the game economy and fix the game.
to make game more accessable some more ingame tutorials can be done. toribash is appealing by being unique and complex deep game. the idea is still innovative and it's never too late to fix the execution, even re-branding may be done in most extreme case, but all of it make sense if efforts are put into.
good luck anyway.
Last edited by snake; Nov 15, 2012 at 09:15 PM.