Re: Redspot and STW, between the innocence and injustince
I personally have a big problem with the way STW makes money, and in a wider sense the way games these days raise money that way, especially the ones aimed at young children. Children have little patience, so telling them you can have something for free if you grind at the game for a month or so, or you can have it right now if you pay 3.99 or whatever is such an insidiously greedy way of getting people to unwittingly pay loads more than they realise for a game.
I'm happy to pay for a game as good as STW, and would have donated the dollar equivalent of £25 or so anyway, or as it's an online multiplayer game, would happily pay an annual subscription of up to 40 quid. I have capped my spending on the STW store at £40 per year. When I hit that amount, no more DFCs or teleporters, which will undoubtedly mean no more STW; dying and having to craft everything from the beginning is not an option. I did it about five times before I gave in and bought my first DFC. I couldn't have carried on playing if I had to start from scratch every time I died, it would just be way too time-consuming and repetitive. The thing is, the pacing/playability of STW could be vastly improved if it weren't for the fact it'd clash with the revenue stream. Things like having to constantly stop to check with the camera when at a location where you could fall to your death: it could be a lot quicker to move around if like in BK, there's an echo that plays so you know when you're coming to a drop. It could be quicker to get from map to map by not having your energy run out so fast or have to stop to use something to cool off or change clothes, or sleep. And there could be a warning when your thirst gets up to dangerous levels, which can happen surprisingly quickly while you're distracted by chat or whatever. But here's the rub, those kinds of playability improvements would mean fewer purchases of DFCs, teleporters, and energy drinks etc, so it's not going to happen. I'll just stop playing when I have spent as much as I'm going to.
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