Arachnophobia / No-Spider option
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I understand that fully, but it only makes a massive difference to the player base, not to whether GGG is a business or not.
Which is why GGG are smart enough to make their micro transactions the only type acceptable to gamers and that is cosmetic effects. To enlighten you though, cosmetic effects do actually have in game value (obviously, people buy them) because they make you look nicer and feel more special. They use a more stealthy way to take your money that won't upset the gaming community. People go mad if anyone think's a game is pay to win, they leave and the game crumbles. GGG are smart enough to realise this and made them cosmetic effects only. The bottom line is though that the majority of players buy these effects and some even spend ten thousand dollars to make a monster - happy days! I wonder if they gave all those away for free and simply asked people to donate out of the goodness of their heart whether or not they'd be making the money they are now. Doubtful :P And that is why they are a business, hope that clarifies it for you. |
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" A business - is an organization involved in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses provide goods and services to customers in exchange for other goods, services, or money. Businesses may also be not-for-profit or state-owned. 1. "Grinding Gear games" provides a service; 2. They exchange microtransactions into money; 3. We (players) are the customers who use this service. "Microtransactions are often given away for free" - many games do that, they occasionally promote people, give various rewards or discounts for subscription time. Still, if a game was free to play AND all microtransactions were free - "Businesses may also be not-for-profit" "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke Editado por útlima vez por Toshis8#1464 en 19 ago. 2014 17:00:20
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" Its different though, its not set up so that you're paying 10,000$ to design a monster, or 1000$ to design a unique ,its like a donation perk, like a kickstarter campaign gives you certain perks for reaching donation thresholds, that doesn't make them businesses. |
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Of course they are paying to make a monster and design a unique item! - There may be a very few rare cases that someone just donated money to the game for nothing, but a very very small number. Oh and fyi kickstarters are businesses looking for money to grow into bigger businesses. They provide perks to get more money, just like GGG. Can't believe I need to explain that but there you go. Editado por útlima vez por Kieren_GGG#0000 en 20 ago. 2014 8:31:37
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" This has gone on a tangent honestly, business or not, its a retarded idea to change their design in-game because people are afraid of animated spiders. Editado por útlima vez por TiltedAxis#0022 en 19 ago. 2014 17:00:50
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haha indeed it has.
And that we can most certainly agree on! :) |
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" They could just have the option to make all spiders invisible. |
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" Being afraid of heights is actually a fairly rational fear...There is a lot of danger involved and the dizziness some people experience doesn't help either. Fearing spiders though...the only rational reason I can think of that someone is afraid of spiders is that they believe all are dangerous. Most are not. Editado por útlima vez por Emil_kof#7098 en 19 ago. 2014 17:52:09
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" I'm OK with giving Camouflage to all spiders. :) Ooh, that would be and interesting Race mod: All enemies have Camouflage. It also seems that some people in this thread have anger issues. :) |
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" Being afraid and having a phobia are 2 very different things. It's rational to be afraid of heights, being in a dangerous place that is high, having a healthy respect for what could happen etc. It's not rational to have a phobia of heights hence why it is most certainly an irrational fear. But thanks anyway :) As an example - Someone with a phobia of heights wouldn't want to look out of a window in a tall building, where as someone who is scared of heights would realise they are completely safe and be fine - but you probably wouldn't catch them skydiving! Editado por útlima vez por pengant#7644 en 19 ago. 2014 17:57:55
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