Gaming → Re: Meeting Monday: Pay to Win, Pay to Play, Pay to Look Good

The LoL model is *extremely* profitable, but it's not workable for all game types.

You can work in some custom bling or skins or etc to many games, but as a sustainable model for the game to make money long term it's not always possible, because some games you can't just keep adding new bling to keep revenue coming in.

Ironically, in their need to DRM and control the usage of every title ("To fight piracy") they have also made supporting games long term more expensive. They have to maintain and run servers to support the games and the DRM and the users, creating fixed costs they have to pay. Whereas before users could run servers and host servers and any costs involved fell on the users, not the publisher.

That's because League is an innovative and fun game to play. These other games are "kind of" fun, but they're not as revolutionary as League of Legends. The predecessor to League was a Warcraft 3 mod/map. Up until that point, they're the first and most successful front-runner on a new genre.Yes you can. New games can always add new content with new pay features. League does it. Others do it as well.

That's because League is an innovative and fun game to play. These other games are "kind of" fun, but they're not as revolutionary as League of Legends. The predecessor to League was a Warcraft 3 mod/map. Up until that point, they're the first and most successful front-runner on a new genre.Yes you can. New games can always add new content with new pay features. League does it. Others do it as well.