Gilberreke wrote:FlowerChild wrote:I think we'll have to wait and see on this. Just because they left the door open for it doesn't mean they're going to start using it immediately. I think charging for each update would pretty much be the death of modding.
Sure, we'll have to wait and see, but this also means that my money is in their hands. It's not as much the money (which won't be much and it's the only game I've played this year), as it is the fact that I bought into a certain business model and agreed to a license that now seems silly.
They have the legal right to ask extra money for features that are half-added to the version I paid for. That does somewhat irk me.
When you paid money the game wasn't even REMOTELY as complete as it is now, and if you're anything like me you've put hundreds of hours into a game you paid $15 for. People being upset that the game is only 100x more interesting, as opposed to 200x as interesting as when they bought on, just seems really petty to me. The game was worth $15 back in alpha (even more so in beta), it's FAR more then that now, and you played it for months, most likely. You can hope that the game gets much much better before release, but if $15 was what you paid for gaming this year, there really isn't any ground for being "irked".
Brethern wrote:I honestly hope they start charging for extra content, that way I can say fuck you I spent enough on this game as it is.
I know that allot of people think I'm being to hard on notch but myself like a few million others spent good money on a unfinished product. If I had it to do over again I'd have never bought minecraft knowing what I know now.
$15 is "good money" for 100s of hours of entertainment? I remember when I had a paper route, and I spent $15 on a movie and it was just "meh". Sure I was upset, but the people in the Minecraft community get so outraged over this, it's unbelievable. Most people who are active in the community probably paid far less then a quarter per hour of entertainment. That is NOT "good money". I hope they charge more for content, if only for the possibility that it might thin the community out a little bit.
People say they wouldn't have done it, but then why not sell your account for $5-$10? Someone will buy it, and then you get out of what you perceive to be a bad deal. Everyone wins!
