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F2P Games that you have whaled?
| -Valkyrie Crusade
-Girls x Battle
-Goddess Kiss
-Girls Frontline
-Dirty Bomb
If I could reset any of these, it would be every game besides GFL and DB.
| You people are the cancer that is killing games. Congratulations, faggots.
| Terra online
| SMITE.
Because I loved MOBAs back then.
| Warframe
| >>369938
Because F2P games with tons of microtransactions have popularised an unhealthy system of monetizing every single aspect of the game, leading to cutting the final game into pieces and selling them later as DLCs and 'exclusive content'. Such an approach has already been seen in many AAA titles (AC Origins for instance), and is expected to gain popularity to such an extent where it might eventually push out games made with real passion and commitment out of of thd market.
| All because the players play these F2P games and feed the machine thus letting devs know they can continue testing how far they can get until they reach the breaking point (recent BF2 lootbox drama)
| Gacha system is bad. People who don't play it agree, people who play it can't deny.
People were outraged by EA's "turning players in to payers" shit but they overlook that gacha games are doing the same thing. The fact that people okay with the term "whale" proves how manipulated the player base are.
| >>369961
As a whale, I can confirm, you speak the truth.
Incidentally, what you describe has already been happening for years now.
As for why I'm contributing to the problem by playing said games? I don't have a straight answer for you. It's not very different from, say, smoking or drinking regularly.
Both things are expensive, contribute to a decline in health, and only give you a fleeting feeling of enjoyment.
Maybe the same can be said for video games in general.
| But if I will willingly take cancer into my body, at least I will choose who gets to give me cancer.
EA, Ubisoft, Activision, Blizzard, and Bethesda can go fuck themself.
| What does whaling means, exactly?
| >>370119 spending a large sum of money on micotransactions, usually on a free to play game.
Large spenders = Whales
Medium spender = Dolphins
Those are the people that keep the free to play game afloat
| >>370096 eh, most of those game companies microtransactions are cosmetic, though. Plus, if you throw 5-10$ you know what skin/DLC you will get and whether or not you "need" them.
It is "better" if compared to 0,7~3% chance of getting an OP SSR, yes chances, it is not even guaranteed. An SSR or your waifu cards might cost you 20$ if you are very luck, or more than 100$ if you have shit luck.
| What's a whaled?
| Whaled a whole 1$ on a Duel Links pack.
| Warframe and dota 2 mostly. Spent a lot of good hours on that.
| >370617 and money too
| >>370296
Whales are people that spend A LOT of money in a game(s).
The most I've ever spent on a f2p game was $100
| Tf2, easy i spend $200
| There is a difference between the system and all of the dlc practices that have been ruining the gaming industry, the gacha games are free first of all, no content is being blocked apart from the waifus and husband is you want, most of the time you can finish the game with free characters now the difference in dlc is that there is blocked content in a game that already costs money and if you want the whole game you gotta buy the dlc
| >>370955
You don't get it. As long as people will to pay for any non-cosmetic content for an already published games, the devs will continue pushing the line and try to see how far they can go before all hell breaks loose and clients go mad
| >>370955
>no content is blocked
>except the waifu and husbando that you want
>most people play gacha games for the waifu and husbando
How can you not realize that you've contradicted yourself in the same same sentence?
If you insist that's not cock blocking then sure. But the game should give people their waifus if they pay a certain amount. The shitting thing is that you are paying for the CHANCES to get said waifu.
| Even if I play a fighting game that has some of the characters as DLCs, I would be paying 60$ base game + 20$ at most for my fav characters. I know I will get what I am buying for 80$. Compare that to throwing 80$ into a gacha game to try your luck at getting your fav characters.
| Tbh its hard not to sink money in to warframe.
| Archeage. About 3.5k in 1 year feels pretty bad. Its the first time i discovered gambling is a real addiction
| >>371741
jesus
i don't think I spent anywhere close to that on f2p games, even when combining all my purchases across various games together.
| >>372744 I mean, I'd rather treat those 3,5K as a lost cause and lesson learned, than sticking with the game and potentially spend even more.
| >>372745
Pretty much what happend,nearly got into money trouble and just knew i wouldnt stop spending while i was playing it. So sold my account got a small amount back abd learned my expensive lesson.
| I've always been stingy as hell even when buying groceries, so I stay as far away from microtransactions as I can
| World of Warships. It got me with its premium ships and anime captains
| Metin2
| Warframe
| World of waifuships
| Brawlhalla
| Spiral knights was one of my favorite games back in the day. Spent a stupid amount on it; sometimes still do. Wish it had a more active player base though.
| I spent a ton of money on League of legends
I dont know if this is considered whaling since spending money on it doesnt make me a better player nor does it give me any advantage over other players
| >>375197
All whaling refers to is the act of spending excessive amounts of money on a video game. Whether it makes you pay 2 win or not is irrelevant.
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| -Habbo (old habbo was great yo)
-Warframe