Original Post
Should Toribash be free or not?
Originally Posted by Swaves
I am one of the few people left in toribash because of love for the game and forums, rather than the love of credits. I have neard stories of the good old days where people played for fun, had no desperation for toricredits.
I think we should go back to having to buy the game in order to play it, rather than the game getting funded by boosters, which in turn gets rid of farming.
Also, we need more organised servers, with public servers like rk-mma, aikidobogdjo and other popular mods. This would bring the fun back to the game, and also a good idea would be for clans to buy a server which is premaritally there, named with the clan name and only members of that clan could join.
The reason why hampa made Toribash free was because no one was buying it.
I understand what you mean, maybe remove the toricredits feature and change it with the qi feature where you have to earn stuff by belts. (Which gives a purpose to the belts).
However, to take place of making Toribash free, they added boosters and items that cost money, and the reason why hampa added a few qi limits to a few items is so that people can enjoy the game so that they can buy the items.
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Originally Posted by Facade
Uniteam didn't really do anything, and what they did was usually what the existing staff were already doing, there was just no logical reason to leave Uniteam around.
yes, a lot more accounts created, but how many will stay? Toribash has a very steep learning curve and I can guarantee most players that come as a result of steam will stop playing within a few days.
this is the exact reason why you need a price tag. also if person invested money he will most likely get into playing, because he paid for game.
Originally Posted by snake
this is the exact reason why you need a price tag. also if person invested money he will most likely get into playing, because he paid for game.
Sorry, it's a unique game and you can't apply 80s business models to it. If you put a price tag on it you more or less kill the stream of new players for simply short earnings. Most people will still not stick to it and you have A LOT less players in total.
By reducing the users to only the people who would pay for the game in the beginning you would probably experience huge drops in earnings in the long run.
The game lives from many people coming into the community and having a few stick around. Reducing the amount of players sticking to the game seems plain stupid. They easily make more money than the few who would actually pay for the game in the beginning.
Toribash used to be pay to play with a free demo model and I'm quite sure the earnings are way better now than they used to be back then.
is $ 1 - 5 price tag now a 80s business model? such price tag can kill community?! are you kidding me?
if such harmless price tag sounds scary, then f2p model should be fixed to prevent withdrawing ingame currency. there should be only one agent player trade with - nabi.
this will exclude most of issues, only concern is art market, but i'm sure there is a way around aswell.
if hamp is so scared, he can do the same as mojang did with minecraft classic and separate it like minecraft classic f2p and minecraft, so there will be toribash f2p and toribash 5.0
if such harmless price tag sounds scary, then f2p model should be fixed to prevent withdrawing ingame currency. there should be only one agent player trade with - nabi.
this will exclude most of issues, only concern is art market, but i'm sure there is a way around aswell.
if hamp is so scared, he can do the same as mojang did with minecraft classic and separate it like minecraft classic f2p and minecraft, so there will be toribash f2p and toribash 5.0
Last edited by snake; Jun 10, 2013 at 08:12 PM.
