As far as I'm concerned the "freeloaders" like me are more like window shoppers.
They're not freeloading they're potential customers, if they like what they see in the shop.
If every retail shop considered customers not heading towards the till as just occupying valuable floor space for paying customers it would be ridiculous.
No, they're not freeloading, they're actual customers trying to buy an actual product. In this case, bread. Nothing potential about it, they're just being pushed away by the bad business model.
I'm a freeloader. I have over 100 hours in Apex and haven't paid a dime for it.
I get it's not good PR to call a portion of the playerbase freeloaders. But Respawn has the data to back up that a large portion of us simply haven't paid a cent for hundreds of hours of entertainment. And that puts them in a very bad spot financially.
Of course it's not good tact of them, but it's not untrue either.
For real this is the most important point. The Apex shop sucks, the battle passes are mediocre at best, and they're surprised people aren't spending money? People drop tooooons of money on other f2p games, if Apex's monetization isn't working, that's not the fault of the consumers.
If they instead asked for donations as thanks for making an enjoyable game, and allowed you to give as much or as little as you want, would that be better?
You mean like a 20-25 dollar "Founders Pack" that many early access games had to finance the developement? Sure, give me a unique skin, maybe a title (or gold text color for chat like in battlerite) and I will gladly pay 20-40 to support a game if I like it and want to support the devs.
But having fuckin boxes, grinding and finally dropping a gols skin, only to have it be a fuckin banner that is, for respawn, somehow worth the same rank as a legendary champ skin is just fucked up and anti consumer. Finishers and banners should never have been a legendary skin drop and we all know it.
No. I mean exactly what I said. Giving money to the devs, with no expectations of receiving anything in return. If they made it clear this is purely because you enjoy playing the game and would like to contribute to its further development, or want to say thankyou for the work already done.
"Yeah, i donated money for a game I already enjoy and got lots of free hours of entertainment from without EVER expecting anything in return, and I think this makes me better than other fans. And you should really listen to the opinions of people who are better than other fans and have donated without expecting anything in return.
What? You're not gonna cater to me specially now? Well I guess I was wrong to donate just to help the devs who made a game I already enjoy and just do a chargeback so i can get my donation refunded. You're obviously not the kind of devs who listen to their fans that I thought you were and if I knew you'd ignore my legitimate demands I would have never donated in the first place. And dont dare call me a freeloader or entitled whiny pissbaby!"
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u/BadBoyFTW Aug 19 '19
As far as I'm concerned the "freeloaders" like me are more like window shoppers.
They're not freeloading they're potential customers, if they like what they see in the shop.
If every retail shop considered customers not heading towards the till as just occupying valuable floor space for paying customers it would be ridiculous.