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[Kantham]

POOTISPOW

In other words, I shouldn't have bothered with this game.

[Firefly]

looks good and the skills system seems ok but it's still a f2p.

[Kantham]

Originally Posted by Firefly

looks good and the skills system seems ok but it's still a f2p.

I don't know where you're getting at, but most of the games I've played with the longest amount of hours recorded were F2P games.

I can't believe someone would just stop looking because they read "Free 2 Play".

[Firefly]

I've played a few and some are pretty good in the gameplay and visual departments but I really don't like the idea of buying power.

[Kantham]

Originally Posted by Firefly

I've played a few and some are pretty good in the gameplay and visual departments but I really don't like the idea of buying power.

TF2 and Tribes are not exactly pay to win for instance.

What I really find p2w is getting items you would have nearly no access from playing free. If you take Tribes, sure, you can get some ~$10 items which takes a long time to farm and have double XP, but it doesn't bother me one bit personally. Think of it as a "Early access", that is fine.

F2P games always need a revenue somehow, they have to give players a reason to spend money on the game.

I tend to avoid Nexon now, because they ruined the **** out of every game on late end content.
Vindictus was one of those games. Succesrate scrolls that can break your precious gear, ~$8 runes to prevent those breaks, bots farming the scrolls/getting ****-tons of gold. BS all around, the game was dying anyway, and now it's on Steam. Unfortunately.

Also, another detail:

Max Payne 3 is loaded with invincible cheats - MSRP $60
Paid Shooter #1244562 is full of cheaters - MSRP $60
Tribes: Ascend is very likely cheat-free - MSRP $0
TF2 is also very likely cheat-free - MSRP $0

Bottom line is, I don't get how someone would stop at "Free to Play"
There's many different developers and publishers out there, give most of them a try (or read about it), if they encourage too much p2w, then at least you tried and you know what to do in the future whenever said dev/pub has a new game.

Here, with Perfect World, I've tried BlackLight: Retribution and one of their MMO, I didn't stick to these games because they had their own dev-related issues (the games had bad concepts). But as far as the marketing goes? Nothing off the scale.

[Kantham]

No one cares BUT... GameSpot are giving away free closed beta keys. The problem is that the said beta opens on Aug. 8th.

Grab a key now, wait like ~16 days.