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Beating dead horses
Of Teeth and Claws —
And the battle rages on. Whee!
Of Teeth and Claws
For Want of a Horse…
The Ancient Gaming Noob —
... Darren thinks there is a simple answer, which runs along the lines of “if you buy the horse, you’re an idiot.” (The horse is a lie!) ...
Potshot on Runes of Magic
pΘtshΘt —
... This is a 30 second impression. After the all the hullabaloo and kerfuffle about the $10 Runes of Magic Horse, I thought I’d better actually hoof it on over to actually try out RoM to see if somehow my opinion would change.
I downloaded RoM (about 4 gigs, relatively painless if a bit slow), installed and jumped in game. Painless. Unlike some AAA titles, it just worked. Character selection– one race, familiar basic archetypes: warrior, mage, scout, rogue, priest, knight. Slightly more that a WoW level of character customization, but ...
Developer Incentives In RMT Item Shop Games
Player Versus Developer —
Darren, the Common Sense Gamer spent the weekend on a one-blogger crusade against the $10 horse in the Runes of Magic item shop. Personally, I didn't link to the flurry of posts at the time because my contribution is not terribly original. I would be outraged if we were talking about a subscription game, but Runes of Magic is Free to Play. The developers need to pay the bills somehow, which means either charging for content (as Darren favors) or charging for convenience. Personally, I'd rather have the option to keep playing, spending ...
Shut Up We’re Talking #51
The Ancient Gaming Noob —
... that your money is safe in your character’s wallet so that one of the traditional roles of a bank, safeguarding your cash, is missing from the equation.
The Horse That Would Not Die – After the enthusiasm on the last show for Dungeon & Dragons Online’s adoption of a Free To Play model, Darren turned around and found a sore spot in the Runes of Magic cash shop, the now infamous $10 horse which lead him to post, and post, and post, and post yet again, some of which generated response ...
