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I was playing LttP on the VC, a game I have only rented on the GBA once seeing as I didn't get into Zelda untill MM, and a evil idea occured to me on the subject of Things You Shouldn't Sell Online.
Basically, say EA puts out a new game. It's very hard. NES hard. But there's a fucking huge acheivement at the end and the story is great.
Now say you have a limited amount of continues. If you don't finish the game in say, 5 lives, the file can't be used OR, and here's the evil part, you purchase a continue off live. Every time you lose 5 lives. Dunno if you could actually do that in Marketplace but I wouldn't put it past them.
Question really is would it be evil? Does it depend if they make the game extra difficult? Would it be acceptable if they put this shit on a 60 dollar game? Is it good in any case?
Basically, say EA puts out a new game. It's very hard. NES hard. But there's a fucking huge acheivement at the end and the story is great.
Now say you have a limited amount of continues. If you don't finish the game in say, 5 lives, the file can't be used OR, and here's the evil part, you purchase a continue off live. Every time you lose 5 lives. Dunno if you could actually do that in Marketplace but I wouldn't put it past them.
Question really is would it be evil? Does it depend if they make the game extra difficult? Would it be acceptable if they put this shit on a 60 dollar game? Is it good in any case?
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That said, stuff like this will never happen outside of arcades. So why worry about it?
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id prob say 100 points = 10 credits. Atleast then they wouldn't be as expensive as actually downloading the full game.
I also think it would be cool to purchase something like day passes to access xbox live Gold services. Its a real shame that wouldn't happen.
On the subject of pay per credit on a full price retail game, I just couldn't see it happening unless the game was free to begin with to actually justify the price.
I suppose it would also depend if it worked like Divx, and if you ended up wanting to buy it outright, they'd take the cost of every credit you put in out of the price. That could be awesome.
A virtual online arcade would be pretty neat but I don't know how well it would actually do.
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I think it would depend on the game entirely rather, for example the demo of something like street fighter or mortal kombat would have you limited to only 1 or 2 characters to choose from, and like a lot of people say they may not want to pay for the full game but have access to it at the price of a credit system.
On the other hand a game like geometry wars, where the demo has the full game but is timed would see little point in having a credit system, also the full retail price is cheap enough to also not need credits.
It's just not the same as going into a dimly-lit arcade and putting physical quarters into one of the physical cabinets. You don't get the experience.
Personally, if I were to implement such a system, I'd completely scrap the existing structure. No demos, only pay-to-play. If you want to buy it, it's the same price regardless of how many 'quarters' you've thrown at it.
Characters gain stats and skills through use. But if you don't use those stats or skills they degrade over time.
Even when you're not playing.
And as your character gets older (the longer the character has existed) the faster this degradation occurs.
And it costs extra to create a new character on the same account, but a lot less then creating a new account entirely.
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Actually put to use correctly I think thats pretty cool.
However, even with a quarter price on trying it once, there's no way some people would try say boardgame for a quarter, so I think it'd be likely that smaller developers wouldn't get the same oppertunities they have now on live arcade.
Jesus, that's horrible XD Aren't MMOs addictive enough?
I could see it being evil if you gained much faster than you lost. This would make it annoying, but not to the point you stop paying the monthly. Say if 2 hours of gain is equal to 22 hours of loss, that would atleast keep people going and perhaps even making sure to spend two hours every day. Maybe even 4 if they want to keep going up. Fuck, that'd probably help the game out. If everyone decided on a 4 to 2 hour period their Guild or whatever would be online that could be sweet.
Then again, I could also see two things to make it better. One, the longer you not play, the faster it degrades. This eliminates playing every other day or on the weekends as plausable options. Two, the longer you do play, the faster you earn experiance. It wouldn't go too fast, maybe double fast max for a 12 hour session. These would both encourage playing every day and make a week or two of not playing a drop from which there is no return.
One thing could also help, that if you say, went on vacation, you can pay a small fee to maintain your character for like a week or so.
Also why would i want a game that forces me to play it everyday?
personally I have a problem with a game making me it's bitch