Quote from: CyberSox on October 08, 2013, 02:16:01 PM
Quote from: Purple on October 08, 2013, 02:11:30 PM
Giving convenience to people that pay is fine, purposely making something inconvenient for non-paying people is retarded.
Adverts aren't convenient for the consumer, yet they are a part of most things. They are inconvenient for the non payer and better for those who pay. It's the same general concept.
It's not the same thing. Most adverts aren't inheritantly inconvenient. Some exceptions are ads that you have to wait to skip, ie. ad.fly, and pop-up ads. Even then, the ads on YouTube that you need to wait 3 seconds to skip aren't that inconvenient.
In an online game if you have to pay to get rid of inconvenient things, then it's a bad business model. If you can pay to make things MORE convenient, that's fine.
I'll use LoL as an example.
They sell experience boosts to help people level up faster. They don't make leveling inconvenient, but if you want to level up faster then you can spend a certain amount of money to shorten the amount of time that it takes to reach the level cap. It doesn't hurt the f2p user experience but can still give people a reason to be a premium member.