This is what Stop Killing Games will look like…we should get used to it…
Comment on RuneScape is planning on introducing Black Mirror inspired membership plans
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months agoSimple strategy. You lose the low value customers, retain the spenders. Less cost for infrastructure, employees, all that.
They’re likely cutting it too close with the cost, but what do I know, I don’t pay for jack.
EarMaster@lemmy.world 2 months ago
bizzle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Trash tier take
EarMaster@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can downvote all you want, but that is the logical escape the industry will take. They will make the online part of games expensive to pay until no one wants to play it or pays them an absurd amount.
Kelly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It sounds dangerous.
Don’t you need the playerbase to attract and retain the whales?
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
Only on PVP focused games
Almrond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Which is very much OSRS. PvP is what single-handedly holds up the game economy there, while mega-rares and discontinued items prop it up in RS3.