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Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon
You're being kicked out because you have real standards.
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Exactly what I just said, and also why the F2P bubble will eventually burst, relegating the microtransaction model to its appropriate niche, and subscription-based services will return.
This has already happened in digital music and video. Services like Spotify and Pandora are doing very well, offering unlimited music from their vast databases for a monthly fee. Nobody here needs to be told how successful Netflix is--even within our anime niche, Crunchyroll exists off monthly subscriptions.
Gaming will return to the proper path after the bubble bursts. Unlimited consumption for a small fee is certainly superior to having to buy everything piecemeal. I suspect we'll start seeing more "freemium" models in the near future as the woefully-misleading "completely free-to-play" movement dies out.