Opportunity cost. (Destiny)

by General Battuta, Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 15:51 (3536 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Leaving money on the table is a good way to drive yourself nuts. When you're financially secure, you can make better art — you can use your money on benefits, you can push back releases to avoid crunch, you can invest in marketing that yields more sales. And the market seems to want cosmetic microtransactions

As long as the 'buy me' presentation is unintrusive, I don't mind cosmetic microtransactions one bit. But the trick is implementing them in a way that doesn't detract from the game experience. Counter-Strike GO handles them pretty well, I think.

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This is a promise - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 12:55
- ----Line in the sand---- - INSANEdrive, 2015-06-23, 13:00
- Couldn't you just eat a sock or something? - someotherguy, 2015-06-23, 13:02
- :/ - ZackDark, 2015-06-23, 13:09
  - :/ - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 13:26
    - :/ - Speedracer513, 2015-06-23, 13:31
    - :/ - stabbim, 2015-06-23, 13:31
      - :/ - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 13:44
        
        Opportunity cost. - General Battuta, 2015-06-23, 15:51
  - I feel like I wandered into a Mary Kay pitch. - Vortech, 2015-06-23, 17:58
- Well, uhm, cya I guess. - CougRon, 2015-06-23, 13:55
- Don't tempt them! - Funkmon, 2015-06-23, 14:17
  - Don't tempt them! - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 14:22
    - Don't tempt them! - Leviathan, 2015-06-23, 14:32
      - Don't tempt them! - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 14:34
        
        Don't tempt them! - Speedracer513, 2015-06-23, 14:39
        
        Better cosmetic than pay-to-win - someotherguy, 2015-06-23, 14:47
        
        Better cosmetic than pay-to-win - Speedracer513, 2015-06-23, 14:58
        
        Better cosmetic than pay-to-win - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 15:02
        
        *Reach - CyberKN, 2015-06-23, 15:07
        
        In full price games? Not cool. - someotherguy, 2015-06-23, 15:07
        
        Don't tempt them! - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 14:57
        
        Don't tempt them! - Speedracer513, 2015-06-23, 15:10
        
        Don't tempt them! - Korny, 2015-06-23, 16:03
        
        Don't tempt them! - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 16:17
        
        Don't tempt them! - Korny, 2015-06-23, 17:16
        
        Don't tempt them! - Leviathan, 2015-06-23, 14:57
        
        Don't tempt them! - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 15:00
        
        Don't tempt them! - MacAddictXIV, 2015-06-23, 15:24
        
        My plan. - Funkmon, 2015-06-23, 15:29
        
        My plan. - MacAddictXIV, 2015-06-23, 15:32
        
        I will dance if you want me to - unoudid, 2015-06-23, 15:36
        
        Will you leave your friends behind? - Vortech, 2015-06-23, 18:04
        
        We can dance on the xbone - unoudid, 2015-06-23, 18:23
        
        360 4 LYFE. - iconicbanana, 2015-06-23, 18:24
        
        Come to the xbone. There is cake. - MacAddictXIV, 2015-06-23, 18:27
        
        360 4 LYFE. - Ragashingo, 2015-06-23, 18:33
        
        Operation Donation needs to happen - unoudid, 2015-06-23, 18:43
        
        360 4 LYFE. - RaichuKFM, 2015-06-23, 18:45
        
        Just shoot Hard Light for power ;) - unoudid, 2015-06-23, 18:48
        
        We can dance on the xbone - Vortech, 2015-06-23, 18:45
        
        Don't tempt them! - RaichuKFM, 2015-06-23, 15:38
        
        Don't tempt them! - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 15:43
        
        Don't tempt them! - Leviathan, 2015-06-23, 15:39
        
        Don't tempt them! - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 15:50
        
        Don't tempt them! - Leviathan, 2015-06-23, 16:19
        
        Don't tempt them! - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 16:24
        
        Don't tempt them! - RaichuKFM, 2015-06-23, 16:39
        
        Don't tempt them! - Leviathan, 2015-06-23, 16:47
        
        Don't tempt them! - Ragashingo, 2015-06-23, 17:47
        
        Don't tempt them! - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 17:54
        
        Don't tempt them! - RaichuKFM, 2015-06-23, 17:56
        
        Don't tempt them! - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 18:25
        
        Don't tempt them! - Vortech, 2015-06-23, 18:54
        
        Don't tempt them! - Ragashingo, 2015-06-23, 18:09
        
        Don't tempt them! - Claude Errera, 2015-06-23, 19:57
        
        Don't tempt them! - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 20:04
        
        Don't tempt them! - Claude Errera, 2015-06-23, 20:06
        
        Don't tempt them! - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 20:43
        
        Don't tempt them! - Dean Hofmeyer (unhh), 2015-06-23, 22:40
        
        Don't tempt them! - Vortech, 2015-06-24, 00:35
- I'd buy cosmetics if the game went Free to Play - Kahzgul, 2015-06-23, 14:26
  - +1 - MacAddictXIV, 2015-06-23, 14:29
  - Generally this funding model makes more sense... - electricpirate, 2015-06-23, 14:55
- *IMG* - ncsuDuncan, 2015-06-23, 15:14
  - They've really buckled on their morals here - MrPadraig08, 2015-06-23, 15:18
  - *IMG* - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 15:24
    - *IMG* - MrPadraig08, 2015-06-23, 15:25
      - LOL - Leviathan, 2015-06-23, 15:42
    - *IMG* - Korny, 2015-06-23, 15:31
      - *IMG* - MacAddictXIV, 2015-06-23, 15:33
      - *IMG* - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 15:35
        
        *IMG* - Miguel Chavez, 2015-06-23, 15:44
        
        *IMG* - Korny, 2015-06-23, 15:50
        
        *IMG* - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 15:53
        
        *IMG* - Korny, 2015-06-23, 16:08
        
        *IMG* - Cody Miller, 2015-06-23, 16:13
        
        my life - MrPadraig08, 2015-06-23, 16:17
        
        Heh. - Ragashingo, 2015-06-23, 17:53
        
        my life - breitzen, 2015-06-23, 18:20
  - For clarity, this was charity. - RaichuKFM, 2015-06-23, 15:34
- This is a promise - Fuertisimo, 2015-06-23, 17:56
- This is a promise - Jillybean, 2015-06-23, 18:29
  - This is a promise - unoudid, 2015-06-23, 18:39
    - This is a promise - Jillybean, 2015-06-23, 18:42
      - Heh. Yep! - Ragashingo, 2015-06-23, 18:53
      - This is a promise - petetheduck, 2015-06-23, 22:45
- You seem to be missing something - Raflection, 2015-06-23, 20:54
- "...if you know you can't keep it." - Ragashingo, 2015-06-25, 02:08

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