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Re:The Financial Future of Game Developers by existencebox on Sunday May 11, 2014 @07:46AM (#7728429)
This may not be the best place to fanboy, but I wanted to say how much I REALLY appreciate your guy's model. It's been a total breath of fresh air in an environment that supports the absolutely worst trends in perverse incentives for free to play games; so just, thank you to you and all of your team.

(on top of that, it's a damn solid game too.)

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Re:The Financial Future of Game Developers by mratzloff on Sunday May 11, 2014 @10:14AM (#7728745)
Oh, Path of Exile! A coworker was chatting with me about how much he liked the DLC model for that game because it doesn't give anyone a purchased advantage, it's strictly cosmetic. He also said that this was the game that Diablo III should have been.
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Re:The Financial Future of Game Developers by BystanderX on Sunday May 11, 2014 @07:01PM (#7730384)
It and DotA2 are the primary titles supporting this model, and it's great for players.

It's hard to sell to marketing though, apparently.

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