Even I am going negative now.

[ClearDark]

Originally Posted by adonys

Yes, exactly, it's about principles. Which mostly can be resumed to "don't get screwed on your own money!". The difference is in the way you perceive the players, and in the choices you are making: big business trying to screw you for money (see Betheda's horse armor Pandora's Box opening DLC), and business offering a borken product because they don't have the resources of the big guys, and are struggling to actually make and offer something in return of their money.

At this point, IL2 CoD is actually a paid beta. But we knew it when we bought it, and we already saw they are continuously fixing and improving it.

I still wait for the day in which a small developer will have the boldness to say the truth: we don't have money to implement this concept you guys love, but we are selling actions to let you help us do it (paid access to closed beta, free will donations).

And I even think MG would have done something like this, haven't UBI been the publishers and dictating the rules!

Eagle Dynamics did it with A-10C. They sold the beta version and after a while it became the full version. This type of business model requires alot of guts and doesn't mean it can work on all game studios.