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Why Freemium Doesn't Work
itwbennett writes "Tyler Nichols learned an obvious but important lesson with his freemium Letter from Santa site: 'most people who want something for free will never, ever think of paying you, no matter how valuable they find your service.' He also discovered that non-paying customers are more demanding than paying customers, which only stands to reason: If someone likes your service enough to pay for it, they probably have an affinity for your brand and will be kinder."
That's true, but ultimately, TF2 is in a differerent marketplace to the MMOs I play. Despite a degree of character-persistence, it's an fps at heart, not a MMORPG. As such, its competitors are the Battlefield and Modern Warfare games.
I tried about 10 minutes of MW3 on a public server. In the space of that time, I learned 14 new descriptive terms for body parts, 12 new racial slurs, detailed descriptions of 15 new acts that consenting adults might conceivably (though improbably) choose to perform together and more than 300 different ways of spelling and pronouncing existing obscenities.
I crawled back to Dark Souls, both for the blessed silence that permeates so much of the game, and the sense that I was playing a game that just hated me slightly less.
Nobody would play WoW if they were the only one on the server
Oh gawd how wrong this is. I played WoW despite the thousands of morons on my server. The average intellectual power of random WoW player is pretty much indiscernible from the NPCs. Often the only way to tell the difference between the two is the NPCs frequently have a big yellow exclamation point above their head.
I am nearly certain that you just wrote something in English. Nearly.
Uhhhh.... I think he -was- stating that sexual activity -does- decline after marriage for some. I'd like to say it's funny, but after 21 years of marriage, I FAIL TO SEE THE FUCKING HUMOR. Sorry. I've been a little on edge lately.
I know what you mean... Oh, you know the old joke, eh?
Little Johnny and his dad are at the pharmacy, and Johnny sees a packet of 3 condoms and asks dad what it's for. Dad replies that it's for high school kids, one for Friday, one for Saturday and one for Sunday. Johnny seems pleased and notices the box next to it, containing 6 condoms and again he asks dad. Dad calmly explains that it's for college students, one for each day of the week, except Sunday where they go home for dinner at moms. Johnny looks pleased and asks dad about the third package with a full dozen of condoms in them. With a deep sight, dad states it's for married men... one for January, one for February....
In every joke, there is a grain of truth. *deep sigh*
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
multiboxing means having two (or more) WoW accounts playing simultaneously on different computers (or in the same computer if it's powerful enough). i just checked, apparently it's not against blizzard's EULA to do that.
Slow down there Sparky... Are you telling me that more than one person can play WoW at the same time? That it's... some kind of multi-player game? This changes things.