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Monday, 17 June 2013

The dumbest game company ever

Posted on 22:00 by Unknown
Every decision has costs. Sometimes you don't make the right one. Such is life, no one can see the future. But some choices just can't work and it was clear from the start. Someone making them is - by definition - dumb. 1B in a T1 hauler? Cloth geared warrior? Autopiloting in lowsec? People doing it are target of ridicule.

Game companies often make choices the players disagree. Sometimes they leave bugs in the game too. But this beats all idiocy I see in the gaming industry:
10160 Hungarian Forint is about 39 Euros. As you need 3600 Riot points for a 30 days IP boost which can be considered as "subscription" for League of legends, you have to pay 75 Euros/month for it, making it 5x higher than WoW or EVE. That price for a truly free to play game is a bad joke. I mean it's an IP boost, you can play without it, granted, slower.

However it can a design decision, it can work, maybe there are whales ready to pay such sums. What makes it idiotic? This:
The cost is actually 20 Euros, in line with the rest of the games. The first price is there if you pay by your mobile phone, where the phone company takes most of the money. I wonder why would anyone pay with his mobile phone, but there are stupid people out there, why not milking them? However the Riot dev who put the most expensive form of paying the default is an epic idiot. I assume thousands of prospective customers pushed the "buy riot points" button, saw the atrocious price popping up and close it before thinking about switching the payment method to Visa. The "mobile payment" option should have been at the very bottom, maybe in a submenu under "not preferred methods". Darwin prize to Riot Games!
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