Free to play model - your opinions

[Ashog]

Anyone forgot about income taxes? If Rex becomes a riach biatch by uniting say all best remaining players in one clan again and banging all others’ clans asses, he has to pay XX% income tax to Deutschland, BECOZ it’s official!

[Bloodbite]

Yep, trading can also be equally scary. I can’t recall where I heard or read it, but I know I’ve been ‘told’ in the past that Blizzard is not far off being the equivalent of a bank in terms of the rules and regulations it has to stick to. The National Bank of Azeroth

Does this mean any kind of community made content from skins to levels/mods… there’s no chance this could be implemented as a user:publisher marketplace dynamic that could contribute to the f2p model?

I would point to the StarCraft 2 level/mod store, or that item thing Steam has going on for TF2 and DOTA2. Still too “banky?”

[zenstar]

[QUOTE=Bloodbite;419152]Does this mean any kind of community made content from skins to levels/mods… there’s no chance this could be implemented as a user:publisher marketplace dynamic that could contribute to the f2p model?

I would point to the StarCraft 2 level/mod store, or that item thing Steam has going on for TF2 and DOTA2. Still too “banky?”[/QUOTE]

The TF2 guys sell community made items and pay back a percentage to the creators. I don’t see anything wrong with that model as long as the necessary contracts get signed.
But I guess it’s up to SD and SD’s law department

[Bloodbite]

[QUOTE=zenstar;419295]The TF2 guys sell community made items and pay back a percentage to the creators. I don’t see anything wrong with that model as long as the necessary contracts get signed.
But I guess it’s up to SD and SD’s law department ;P[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I’d actually like to see that happen… but Valve has mutated into a behemoth with Steam. Is the trade element as complicated and heavy duty from their side as Blizzard… ie. is it achievable by Warchest?