angrypurplecyclops
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Do people on this site play a lot of the browser based games? I've played quite a few of them in the last few years, even that addictive but possibly spyware from china Evony which I really don;t recommend as while they say it's free you can't compete with the paying players if you play for free.
This post is basically about that. Most free to play games aren't actually free to play because the pay option players have such an advantage there's no balance. I played a galactic space battle game a few years ago that was free to play with a pay option and the free players were slightly weaker because not every technology could be learned as free player. The game was close to balanced because there were other equally powerful technologies that the free players could learn but there were a couple things that made paying players more viable.
Recently I started playing a F2P game called League of Legends and this is by far the best free to play game I've ever played. Paying players get more options faster but everything meaningful that can be used in game is available to be purchased with IP points (points you earn playing) so a free player might only have 5-6 completed champs when a paying player might have 25 but you only use 1 per game and you can choose to get any one you want with your IP so the paying player has zero advantage he just has more choices. It's a great way to do things and the game play is very fun as well if you like RTS games.
This post is basically about that. Most free to play games aren't actually free to play because the pay option players have such an advantage there's no balance. I played a galactic space battle game a few years ago that was free to play with a pay option and the free players were slightly weaker because not every technology could be learned as free player. The game was close to balanced because there were other equally powerful technologies that the free players could learn but there were a couple things that made paying players more viable.
Recently I started playing a F2P game called League of Legends and this is by far the best free to play game I've ever played. Paying players get more options faster but everything meaningful that can be used in game is available to be purchased with IP points (points you earn playing) so a free player might only have 5-6 completed champs when a paying player might have 25 but you only use 1 per game and you can choose to get any one you want with your IP so the paying player has zero advantage he just has more choices. It's a great way to do things and the game play is very fun as well if you like RTS games.
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