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Re:Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs by xurias on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:26AM (#20937735)
> store bought armor at level 2 looks infinitely better than anything you can actually earn through skill or play time

You touch on the two things that make me hate free to play games. It seeps into the design philosophy in a way that makes the experience worse for everybody because they need to incentivize buying stuff. A lot of people like playing dress-up, but there's no way to do that in PoE without paying crazy amounts of money.

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Re:Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs by mrguyorama on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:17PM (#20944197)
Like the halo 3 days where the "cool" looking armor was because you completed difficult challenges, or you could dress up however you want, without spending $150
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