Wednesday, 30 January 2013

OH MMORPGS + MMFPS GAMES HOW I HATE THE "COIN SHOP"

 In game Coin Shops Why I Hate Them!

GOOD MORNING AFTERNOON EVENING

Header says it all i really hate MMORPGS AND MMFPS with coin shops now i been on the gaming scene since i was about 5,6 or 7 with the game boy color and over the years i been  to consoles computer gaming and of course online games now one of the very first games i played which had an online store was shaiya now back then i didnt have much of a know how to games and computers so i played and enjoyed for a bout two months saw that a lot of the "cool" stuff i wanted had to be brought with money it was around that time i started playing runescape and brought membership and i liked it like that have everything in game and i enjoyed it, still do....... till recently but i shall get to that.
Online stores for in games i guess ARE OK for cosmetics BUT NOT FOR IMPORTANT INGAME ITEMS WHICH GIVE PEOPLE AN EDGE.  Thats my personal view anyway, which i gained from maplestory which i have played many times  my account was on of the first since i made it the day after the release in Europe and i played it for about a year left it for a few more came back and tons of stuff in the coin store like pets weapons, mounts, items, money and i couldn't get back into it properly.

Another game two infact i played recently (last two years) was spiral knights and a mystical land
both used energy you get a base energy of 100 in spiral knights which is used in crafting and exploring dungeons and it recharges completely within 24 hours however some craft able things required more then 100 and you had to BUY DIFFERENT ENERGY WITH REAL MONEY and i think that could also be used for buying other items which gives an edge, yet again it put me off. a mystical life had tons of energy and i used it slowly since i did more combat then crafting/gathering/ cooking  so usually i had a lot left by the time i stopped and you got given free stuff from the store at the start like an extra backpack for a while however when that expired you had to buy a new one and all the items in there were locked and UN-USEABLE if they could just be moved to bank storage or other slots or even been sold that would of been good BUT NO I COULDN'T USE THEM AND TO BE ABLE TO MOVE THEM MEANT BUYING MORE TEMP STORAGE OR PERM FOR RIDICULOUS PRICES  no wonder not many people played.

Now if games had a system like Runescape before "the coin shop called Solomon store " have f2p which is limited and then membership which you could get everything that would be swell. Now this all started with the squeal of fortune good update i admit yes you got the option to buy spins with real money but you get 2 a day (1 if your f2p),  1 or 2 from each quest you do, as well as one from daily challenges and spin tickets as drops from monsters and skilling. all well and good but like myself and many players saw that a coin shop would eventually open and we was right a few months down the line it came out members got 200 coins for free however alot of stuff was like a few coins over 200. now alot of it was cosmetics and changing the way you skill or cast teleports but now you got pets on there which help you which does give an edge but not much. I predict that given a few months there be weapons and Armour buying bulks of items on it which MAY MAKE ME DECIDE TO STOP PLAYING which would probably do me good and save money.




So here is a question for anyone who reads this Do you believe coin shop is positive or a negative edition to online multilayer games.

Monday, 28 January 2013

My Arrival And Ea rant



Introduction

Hello
I guess I best get started with first saying that i am a ranter (hence the name) now there are many things in life at the moment which we can and to be honest we do rant about so maybe daily or weekly I shall rant about anything and everything while trying not to repeat myself, my spellings crap and im trying to write formal......for the first post at least 

These rants will be based on things effecting me, family, friends and anything else and i would very much like your views on the subjects and feel free to ask my views on other things.

Also don't expect this blog to be anything flashy or attractive if it does its job and i get at least a viewer besides myself I'll be jumping for joy since I need the exercise. 


formalish part over

EA support RANT


So then at the moment Ea is really pissing me off  about three of my games have stopped working and this has been going on for the pass 3 or 4 months so a bit late anyway two of them belong to Ea so after being rudely ignored on the forum for about a month i took to ea support (i didn't attack them honestly) i explained my problem submitted a dxdiag report and everything i did first they pretty much told me to do things i had already done so it shows they don't bother reading anything the whole thing looked like an auto reply after that the suggested a few simple things (although i didn't think of them at the time) and it felt like they was talking to a brainless child even though i had said i have decent knowledge of computers and programs. anyway after playing pong with what i believe is an auto reply bot i get told to use the self help guide for further help.

now if this person is reading this which i highly doubt anyone is I apologize for calling you an auto reply bot.
however this has not been the first time i have  had problems with ea products/site and the ea support haven't been much help so advice if you got an ea product which don't work or stopped working trying sorting it out yourselves (since after a while they say use the self help guide for brainless children FAQ) or you may get lucky and have an smart auto reply bot or a real person solve it.

Edit

it replied twice and basically when i said i don't have any custom content (for the 3rd time ) it told me to uninstall it.
EA IS USELESS!!!!!!!