![]() If it doesn’t make it, that will send an ugly message to game developers and publishers. It would be one thing if Relic Hunters Legend didn’t look worthy of attention, but with fully voiced and animated cut scenes, all new graphics and boss fights, and an expanded growth tree system that allows for unprecedented levels of customization, the game looks as good if not better than most successfully crowd funded projects. You’d also think that the +1 million people who played the game would also be quick to back the sequel on kickstarter, but so far not so good. Relic Hunters Zero, an actually free to play game, has been dowloaded over a million times, but given that it costs literally nothing to play, is available on Steam, and is (most importantly) a lot of fun, you’d think its numbers would be better than that. That misconception of quality can cut both ways, leading people to see cheap-but-fun games as less valuable than more expensive and rare virtual goods. By making these items difficult or time consuming to acquire otherwise, they take on a false sense of worth that can really play with your head (and your wallet). By spending real money, they give players the chance to earn some valuable in-game equipment or other resources, though it’s usually a gamble. These kinds of tricks have been gradually leaking into full priced, $60 retail games as well. ![]() Some of you have told us that it’s gotten so bad that you’ve considered getting out of gaming entirely. The fact that so many of us equate the word “free” with the feeling of being ripped off is as sad as it is strange, but that’s where we are in 2017, an era with thousands of games on the market that were designed solely to play you, and not the other way around. A game made for everyone, including poor peopleĪ lot of people have come to associate the term “free to play” with skeevy micro transaction driven game mechanics designed to influence people’s feeling states, leading them to make unwise decisions with their money.
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