Has anyone ever came across a rental app before? I think that they are totally ludicrous. :-(
What do you mean? you rent an app? an apartment ? I don't really get it :-/
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An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly
subscription for the app.
An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly subscription for the
app.
I've never heard of such a thing before. It must be an amazing can't-live-without-it app. What is the app for, games?
Has anyone ever came across a rental app before? I think that they are totally ludicrous. :-(
An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly subscription for the app.
An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly
subscription for the app.
I've never heard of such a thing before. It must be an amazing can't-live-without-it app. What is the app for, games?
Don't start me with that :-D I'm so against the "Free-to-play" ( in my
mind it's more "FREE-TO-PAY" ) model. When you hook a player to you game
and like drugs you ask for money to give weapons/ammo etc so you can actually win in a game. Free to lose, pay to win.
Rather prefer to do a single purchase and own it. Or montly model like
Apple Arcade or Xbox All Access where for a montly fee you have access
to hundreds of game. The problem is that you stop to pay and your game
go away. No so good but at least you keep more control on how much you spend.
Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: Ennev to Ogg on Thu Aug 20 2020 09:51 am
Don't start me with that :-D I'm so against the "Free-to-play" ( in my mind it's more "FREE-TO-PAY" ) model. When you hook a player to you game and like drugs you ask for money to give weapons/ammo etc so you can actually win in a game. Free to lose, pay to win.
Rather prefer to do a single purchase and own it. Or montly model like Apple Arcade or Xbox All Access where for a montly fee you have access
to hundreds of game. The problem is that you stop to pay and your game
go away. No so good but at least you keep more control on how much you spend.
Me too. There are a few genuine F2P model games out there though... Star War the Old Republic is quite decent, you can easily level up to 50 without ever paying any cash for additional quality of life upgrades. Most battle ground genre games are fair also and are true F2P titles... I don't advocate playin it, but Fortnite is a good example along with Apex Legends. World of Tanks b in the day was a solid F2P game which didn't give an advantage to fee paying customers. I agree with paid customisation, not paid in-game advantages.
Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay for World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap most hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to how much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the games.
Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: Andeddu to Ennev on Mon Aug 24 2020 03:41 pm
Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: Ennev to Ogg on Thu Aug 20 2020 09:51 am
Don't start me with that :-D I'm so against the "Free-to-play" ( in my mind it's more "FREE-TO-PAY" ) model. When you hook a player to you game and like drugs y
ask for money to give weapons/ammo etc so you can actually win in a game. Free to lose, pay to win.
Rather prefer to do a single purchase and own it. Or montly model like Apple Arcade or Xbox All Access where for a montly fee you have access
to hundreds of game. The problem is that you stop to pay and your game go away. No so good but at least you keep more control on how much you spend.
Me too. There are a few genuine F2P model games out there though... Star War the Old Republic is quite decent, you can easily level up to 50 without ever paying an
cash for additional quality of life upgrades. Most battle ground genre games are fair also and are true F2P titles... I don't advocate playin it, but Fortnite is a
good example along with Apex Legends. World of Tanks b in the day was a solid F2P game which didn't give an advantage to fee paying customers. I agree with paid
customisation, not paid in-game advantages.
While i think it's cool to give free players a chance to play fair, games like these require some source of income to continue to keep others interested and generate
more content. If I were to create an MMO, I might create free zones where players are limited to free enhancements. If you want to go big and
bad and kit up with purchased items, that will require connecting to a subscrition server. On special occasions special weapons and armor or other items may be unloc
on the free servers to function as a carrot to draw
them on to the pay servers.
Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay for World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap most
hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to how much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the gam
Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 25 2020 10:59 am
Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap most hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the games.
usually those are vanity items.
While i think it's cool to give free players a chance to play fair, games like these require some source of income to continue to keep others interested and generate more content. If I were to create an MMO, I might create free zones where players are limited to free enhancements. If you want to go big and
bad and kit up with purchased items, that will require connecting to a subscrition server. On special occasions special weapons and armor or other items may be unlocked on the free servers to function as a carrot to draw them on to the pay servers.
usually those are vanity items.
They were also buying "levelled up" accounts so they wouldn't have to spend large amounts of time doing piddly tasks before being able to hold their own in a battle.
Me too. There are a few genuine F2P model games out there though... Star Wars the Old Republic is quite decent, you can easily level up to 50 without ever paying any cash for additional quality of life upgrades. Most battle ground genre games are fair also and are true F2P titles... I don't advocate playing it, but Fortnite is a good example along with Apex Legends. World of Tanks back
in the day was a solid F2P game which didn't give an advantage to fee paying customers. I agree with paid customisation, not paid in-game advantages.
Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay for World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap most hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to how much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the games.
They were also buying "levelled up" accounts so they wouldn't have to spend large amounts of time doing piddly tasks before being able to hold their own in a battle.
ah well, that's not as common now. wow is a strange game though. his gear would become obsolete quick or he would be caught or he would have his account stolen back by the seller.
On 2020-08-25 10:59 a.m., Moondog wrote:
Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay
for World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap
most hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is
relative to how much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's
and gpu's, then it moved into the games.
Oh yeah, I remember that, people payed for grinding in the game. I head that people where exploited in some country to work like in theses wow sweatshop where they would grind so that the boss would make money selling characters etc on ebay.
Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: MRO to Moondog on Wed Aug 26 2020 04:17 pm
ah well, that's not as common now. wow is a strange game though. his
gear would become obsolete quick or he would be caught or he would
have his account stolen back by the seller.
The buyer isn't interested in the gear. In WoW raiding is the meat and bones of the game... that means 25 man raids in massive dungeons where you'd have to be on a voice chat group to formulate proper tactics. You needed a level 60 character in order to join the rest of your guild so a lot of serious players purchased alts of a different class. I played the game casually in '07 with my girlfriend back then but my best friend was a serious raider. He almost got chucked out of university as he barely had any time to complete his tutorials and essays as he was required to be online around 3 hours each Mon, Wed and Fri so the guild could clear specific end-game dungeons.
Arelor wrote to Moondog <=-gam
Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 25 2020 10:59 am
Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: Andeddu to Ennev on Mon Aug 24 2020 03:41 pm
Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: Ennev to Ogg on Thu Aug 20 2020 09:51 am
mind it's more "FREE-TO-PAY" ) model. When you hook a player to youDon't start me with that :-D I'm so against the "Free-to-play" ( in my
game and like drugs y
ask for money to give weapons/ammo etc so you can actually win in a
e. Free to lose, pay to win.W
Apple Arcade or Xbox All Access where for a montly fee you have accessRather prefer to do a single purchase and own it. Or montly model like
spend.to hundreds of game. The problem is that you stop to pay and your game go away. No so good but at least you keep more control on how much you
Me too. There are a few genuine F2P model games out there though... Star
ar the Old Republic is quite decent, you can easily level up to 50gam
without ever paying an
cash for additional quality of life upgrades. Most battle ground genre
es are fair also and are true F2P titles... I don't advocate playin it, but Fortnite is aso
good example along with Apex Legends. World of Tanks b in the day was a
lid F2P game which didn't give an advantage to fee paying customers. I agree with paidlik
customisation, not paid in-game advantages.
While i think it's cool to give free players a chance to play fair, games
e these require some source of income to continue to keep others interested and generatepl
more content. If I were to create an MMO, I might create free zones where
ayers are limited to free enhancements. If you want to go big andsubscr
bad and kit up with purchased items, that will require connecting to a
ition server. On special occasions special weapons and armor or other items may be unlocWo
on the free servers to function as a carrot to draw
them on to the pay servers.
Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay for
rld of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap mostm
hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to how
uch you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the gam
Yeah, games need a source of income, but some of those get crazy expensive.
Take Howrse as an example. It is free to play. However, the game is engineered in such a way that you have to log and play often (in order
to keep the player involved with the game) and in-game purchases are
jus evil. What I mean is that a lot of the purchase system involves
"luck items", which are vaults that contain a variable amount of
tresure and objects... for beating some events, you often need objects that are only found in luck items... so in the end you either start
buying luck items with real money hoping you wil find the objects
needed to beat the event, or you basically skip the event.
Which would not be very bad if the estimated cost of beating the event with luck items weren't 200 USD.
For a browser game about ponies.
Played by 8 yo girls and relors.
Sickening.
I think games like Equine Passion get it right. The game is free but
there are some characteristics that require an AFFORDABLE premium membership. If you like the game you sepnd a couple of bucks a month
and become a member so you have some interface tweaks and some more
game featuresthat make your life easier but are not critical to the
game.
Moondog wrote to MRO <=-
Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: MRO to Moondog on Tue Aug 25 2020 06:52 pm
Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 25 2020 10:59 am
Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on ebay World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap most hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative to much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then it moved into the games.
usually those are vanity items.
They were also buying "levelled up" accounts so they wouldn't have to spend large amounts of time doing piddly tasks before being able to
hold their own in a battle.
Moondog wrote to MRO <=-
Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: MRO to Moondog on Tue Aug 25 2020 06:52 pm
Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 25 2020 10:59 am
Years ago when I first heard about people buying in game items on eb World of Warcraft, I realized gaming leaped further into the trap mo hobbies and competitions create. How far you want to go is relative much you want to spend. First it was tier one cpu's and gpu's, then moved into the games.
usually those are vanity items.
They were also buying "levelled up" accounts so they wouldn't have to spend large amounts of time doing piddly tasks before being able to hold their own in a battle.
This is actually interesting in a social point of view. How online games see to create a social game above the actual game that is then fueled by an external economy that drives demand for that social game.
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An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly subscription
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Re: Re: Rental Apps
By: Ogg to All on Wed Aug 19 2020 07:49 pm
An app for an iPad. Some developers make you pay a monthly
subscription for the app.
I've never heard of such a thing before. It must be an amazing can't-live-without-it app. What is the app for, games?
Some software is going toward a subscription model. I've heard Adobe is doing that now; Microsoft Office 365 is another example of subscription software.
Nightfox
Some software is going toward a subscription model. I've heard Adobe
is doing that now; Microsoft Office 365 is another example of
subscription software.
You can get this product cheap on the internet.
Some software is going toward a subscription model. I've heard Adobe
is doing that now; Microsoft Office 365 is another example of
subscription software.
You can get this product cheap on the internet.
"On the internet" - From Microsoft? If not, that sounds sketchy.
Nightfox
You can get this product cheap on the internet.
"On the internet" - From Microsoft? If not, that sounds sketchy.
No offense to you Nightfox. Some individuals act like they do not have a life and spend to much time much making fun of other individuals. I really do not give a f*ck.
All the Microsoft products I have purchased from a Microsoft partner has worked with no issues.
I don't know what you mean, as I wasn't trying to make fun of anyone.. ??
I just wasn't sure what you meant.
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