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@Fabius Bile
That's exactly what it is. This one guy was spamming the trade chat in R.O.D.E. that the Seven Souls Online beta was starting. We all just told him that it was Martial Empires and he shut up quick.

I think that a lot of F2P games are just realizing that they can't just make a rehash of the same thing with a few different features added and get away with it. This is due to the gamers that are paying for all these rehashes and if the companies are getting money, then they don't really care. Hopefully companies will start to be smarter about what they publish in the future. It always pains me to see another game just get shelved.

I really do love Wargaming. They've set up a cash shop in World of Tanks so that it is not pay to win. Yes, you can still buy premium tanks, but that is not pay to win. Their tactics is one of the two things cash shops should be for: For people who don't want to spend so much time on games and cosmetic items. If more games incorporated those two things they can succeed. We've seen multiple games like League of Legends, World of Tanks, and Maplestory do these things and it simply works. There is no need to put in pay to win items. I hope more games do realize this and go with this system so this bad rap on F2P games can go away and we can have a better future for our games.

I'm gonna have to say Runescape and Battleground Europe. Runescape just because a lot of it is by the numbers, it's always about finding the most efficient way to do things. BGE because of my squad, but I haven't been on there in a long time and I don't think I'm gonna go back to it.

I played Battleground Europe for a lot longer than I should have, but it was because of my Squad. I was on the German's side and it was so imbalanced it was insane (sherman v Tiger at 100 meters frontal attack and the sherman wins? wat?) but getting on every night and talking to the boys just made me feel like home. But until the game gets balanced again, I'm gonna look into the new ones coming out like Tera or Secret World.

That was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

World of Warcraft for about 2-3 years

Whenever I say that I play runescape, I get a number of comments like that. It irks me because thousands of people still play and pay for it. But indeed I have to wonder what makes people play some of the games they do, like Ragnarok, or Dragon Raja, but I can understand the nostalgia as I have had that feeling. I can also understand if people still play it because they've played it for so long that they don't want to just let all that time go to waste. As long as people don't play a game just because they want to look cool, I'm fine with it.

@SnarlingWolf

You may not play F2P games, but many, MANY other people do, so do not be one-sided on this. If everyone had that attitude where they just laughed at failures, then nothing new would be developed for the fear that they would get laughed at. It's better just to be honest about it, but don't be brutal, to the developers here I would say "Hey I like what you're doing, but you need to show us more before we donate our money.", instead of "WTF are you doing? You guys are losers and have no idea of what you are doing and just need to stop and go back to whatever you were doing before".

@DeadlyAccurate
"Then they can get money the way other businesses do: loans or investors." Ahh, I was going to reference that point, and the problem with that is, is that who's going to give loans to a couple of out-of-the-blue people who's working on game that has no idea of how they're going to make money off of it. And also, what happens if they do just fizzle out? Like I said, I agree that they need to show more than just an engine test, but they also need to figure out how their income is going to work, but if they choose to do it by donations, then they need more demos, once they get that, I'll start donating to help.