I stopped playing for some time because of all the imbalance issues – MANY stuff that can be purchased with SC (which almost always also cost loads of Certs), especially the latest ones, tend to be the most OP weapons.

don’t get me wrong, the game “model” (or whatever term fits best) is great, however the balancing was terrible.

I came back after a few months to see how the implementation of the stuff in the Roadmap go, and I was surprised to see how much better the game become.
not long after, I was no longer able to play PlanetSide 2 again (our bandwidth can’t keep up with the updates that accumulated in time) so I read about the patch notes and was glad to see that most of the issues has been given a “work-around”.

I am definitely looking forward to playing PlanetSide 2 again.

No need to play lower tiers… or you can play and still shoot extra gold in each and everymatch from T1 to T10. This is pay to win. It is not purely pay to win, but it is. Locking the amount of gold ammo would get rid of the full gold users.

You can’t win an argument where you simply deny your own picture of the situation. With premium you get ALL THE TIME MORE credits which can either… make you buy bigger tanks faster OR give you more exp and wins due to more penetrations and damage… There are some who get meagre penetrations buffs from silver ammo, but there are some getting outrageous amounts ( 2xPershing come to my mind… we just spammed gold while being the last tanks alive not caring to hit the weakspots… we just penned the enemy almost regardless where we hit them, difference was 180 – 268…. go figure how it affects the game balance when we had roughly 66-33 ammo loadout… and credits to spam them freely due to long time premium.

There is fuck all micro about buying a Tier 8 premium in WoT for €40.

As for the shiny graphix…I said the same thing regarding GW2 vs WoW. Now looking back, WoW was better off not using those shiny new grapix zomg.

I ask you: how many times did you have to kill a random Champion in GW2 with the local zerg when the target area becomes saturated with sparkly effects and all kinds of crap flying and blowing up allover the place and you becoming unable to 1) see your character and 2) to see the target character.
In my case? Every damn time! What’s worse, say I’m a class that can’t take a hit or two and needs to know the orientation of the target(and say I’d like to know if he’s using an ability so I don’t get horribly murdered). In this case, all the shiny graphix works against the game and the player. Yeah the computer can take it no problem, however I’m usually trying to sift through to find those 3 pixels belonging to my character not covered by explosions and hope I won’t get killed till my dodge bar replenishes.

Subscription games are kinda here to stay as they do provide better services for the money spent(they kinda have to lol)

Things got dicey in ZG and BWL where you either needed everyone on top of their game as either you didn’t have enough of’em(ZG) or the strategies were more complex

Oh, and Warship Gunner 2 didn’t even have a multiplayer component. Not even twin controllers.

I occassionally boot up my 5-year-old account from back in the Beta Test to see how far it’s fallen. On the plus side – we finally got our world conquest mode we were promised back in ’08!

If he decides to quit an F2P game, perhaps because it got a heavier P2W bent to it, the only cost lost into it is however much he decided to put into it, which is frequently just time.