Modelo por suscripción
This allows us to avoid the pay to win mentality many free-to-play games employ, as well as maintain a steady flow of new content for all our players.[2]
Ashes of Creation (MMORPG) es un juego basado en pago por suscription.[2]
- La cuato de suscripción mensual es de USD $14.99.[3][4]
- No habrá bloqueo regional, pero ciertas regiones dispondrán de suscripciones "armonizadas" que se adapten mejor a sus economías locales. Esta regiones armonizadas estarán separadas de las demás.[5][6]
- Las suscripciones vitalicias se concedieron a los patrocinadores del crowdfunding de nivel "Braver of worlds" o superior.[7][8] These will never be available again.[9]
- Las suscripciones comenzarán en el momento del lanzamiento o, sujeto a cambios, el usuario podrá elegir activar su suscripción para que empiece en un momento determinado.[10]
- El tiempo de juego (obtenido mediante crowdfunding y packs de pre-reserva) no empezará a contar hasta el lanzamiento del juego.[11]
- I think a sub cost provides both the barrier of entry to prevent, some not all, but mitigate some gold selling bots and whatnot because there's a cost associated with playing the game, but it's also not too high that it gets on the greedy side or prevents a lot of players from participating and trying the game; and then if the game is good then people will continue to subscribe and that subscription provides funding and revenue for the developers to continue a significant content creation and expansion rollout for the game.[12] – Steven Sharif
Ashes of Creation Apocalypse era free-to-play.[13][14]
- There is no P2W in Apocalypse or the MMORPG![14]
Subscription payment
Intrepid Bucks earned through the Referral program can be used to reduce subscription costs (to zero).[15]
- In-game currency will not be able to be used to purchase subscription time. This may change in the future.[16]
We want to make sure that there's no "interactability" between any type of pay-to-win scenario where our players can exchange those in-game types of currencies to pay for subscriptions.[16] – Steven Sharif
Referral program
Players who refer and invite new players can receive 15% of their account purchases back as Intrepid Bucks.[15]
- This only applies to purchases made with an applicable payment method. Purchases redeemed using Intrepid Bucks are not eligible.[15]
- Personal information, including usernames, are not used for referrals due to privacy constraints.[17]
Referrals require the registration of a new account, either with a personal referral code or via a referral link.[15]
- Referrals cannot be retroactively attached to an existing account.[18]
Intrepid Bucks
Intrepid Bucks are earned through the Referral program. These can be used to:[15]
- Purchase Embers.[19]
- Purchase in-game items from the Tienda cosmética.[15]
- Reduce subscription costs (to zero).[15]
- This only applies to the user's own subscription.[17]
- Obtain cash rewards on a quarterly basis after Ashes of Creation has launched.[15]
Expansiones
Las expansiones de DLC ([[[Release schedule|lanzamientos]] posteriores al lanzamiento del juego) se planifican con una periodicidad mensual, trimestral o semestral.[20][21]
- La frecuencia y el tamaño de las expansiones dependerá de la popularidad y de la base de suscriptores del juego..[20]
- Los DLC no tendrán coste añadido además de la propia suscripción normal del juego.[22][23]
- Las expansiones más grandes añadirán nuevos contenidos y aumentarán varios contenidos del juego.[20][24]
- el nuevo contenido se introducirá principalmente a través del sistema de nodos. El objetivo es que el contenido existente siga siendo relevante junto con el nuevo..[25]
Because of the modularity of a lot of the systems that we're working on, it's not too hard to iterate and implement new things... We're planning on going on a quarterly/ monthly cycle to continue to push out new content.[26] – Jeffrey Bard
The quarterly cycle for the big content is good for us and then, as you said, those modular components to our mechanisms in the game allow for us to introduce smaller content patches that can be seen in real time in the world.[26] – Steven Sharif
We don't intend to a wordsmith around future charge for DLC content. As a subscription model, that's part of the agreement between us as a Studio and you guys: That there will be regularly scheduled updates and chapters; and that subscription is what allows you to access that content.[23] – Steven Sharif
Precio de la caja (compra inicial)
No hay un precio de compra asociado a la caja inicial en Ashes of Creation.[27]
Nobody should feel that they have to back the project to see it come to life. It's coming to life regardless of that. You do it because you want to support us and that's fine; and if you don't want to, that's also fine as well. We want to hear your voice and we want you to be part of the community, so that's a very important aspect. Nothing we offer in the pre-order packages are power driven. They don't give any competitive advantage to an individual who backs the game.[28] – Steven Sharif
Pay to win
Ashes of Creation no será pay to win.[29][12][30]
Ashes of Creation will not be pay to win, that is our pledge to the community. One of the core principles we set forth with Ashes of Creation is a very strong desire to maintain the game's even playing field.[30]
A lot of developers and companies have come along in the past- and I've been hit by this too- and they've said we're not going to have pay-to-win and then boom they roll out some pay-to-win. We have consistently said we won't be pay-to-win and in the pre-orders that we provide and even in the Kickstarter there were absolutely zero pay-to-win components whatsoever. So not only will we talk the talk but we will walk the walk as well.[12] – Steven Sharif
Because we are a non-box purchase game, meaning there is no box price to play Ashes of Creation, it is only a subscription; and that's beneficial because it reduces the barrier of entry and we want a high population obviously; but at the same time one of the ways we augment the revenue flows to sustain constant updates and new chapter releases and additional content within the game is through a cosmetic-only marketplace; and that means absolutely no pay-to-win whatsoever; and that will be adhered to forever.[29] – Steven Sharif
Las ranuras de inventario, las cajas de botín RNG y las pociones de XP se consideran pay to win.[31][32][33][34]
- No habrá potenciadores de nivel ni auto-leveling.[35]
- No habrá sistema de cajas de botín en Ashes of Creation.[31]
We will not use a loot box system for cosmetics either. We currently have a cosmetic store that offers limited time, limited quantity items to help sustain game development. These items are purely decorative and do not offer any in-game benefits.[31]
- El uso de múltiples cuentas y el "multi-boxing" en ordenadores diferentes no se considera pay to win.[32][36][37]
My definition of pay-to-win is really anything that affects the in-game economy, the in-game action pool, your abilities and/or skills... In my opinion the inventory slots and the XP potions would be considered pay-to-win.[33] – Steven Sharif
- Q: Will there be RNG boxes?
- A: I dislike RNG. Archeage made me loath rng monetization gimmicks.[34] – Steven Sharif
Player housing grace period
If a player's subscription runs out, there will be a grace period before player housing is lost.[38]
Ver además
Referencias
- ↑ Pre-order packs
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
- ↑
- ↑ Transmisión en vivo, 2018-05-04 (53:34).
- ↑ Transmisión en vivo, 2020-07-25 (1:21:03).
- ↑
- ↑
- ↑
- ↑
- ↑ Transmisión en vivo, 2021-02-26 (1:08:47).
- ↑
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Transmisión en vivo, 2020-07-25 (1:53:46).
- ↑ Transmisión en vivo, 2018-10-31 (38:47).
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Blog: Steam Announce And Play Test FAQ For Ashes of Creation Apocalypse
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 Ashes of Creation referral program.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Transmisión en vivo, 2017-06-01 (20:47).
- ↑ 17.0 17.1
- ↑ I created an account before I knew about the referral link. Can I add someone’s referral to my account?
- ↑
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 Entrevista, 2021-02-07 (21:57).
- ↑ Transmisión en vivo, 2017-05-08 (11:14).
- ↑
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Transmisión en vivo, 2018-08-17 (1:02:38).
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 Transmisión en vivo, 2020-06-26 (1:26:54).
- ↑ Entrevista, 2021-06-13 (42:22).
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Transmisión en vivo, 2017-06-01 (19:12).
- ↑
- ↑ Transmisión en vivo, 2021-12-23 (1:23:41).
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 Transmisión en vivo, 2020-11-30 (56:02).
- ↑ 30.0 30.1
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Transmisión en vivo, 2020-07-25 (48:28).
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 Pódcast, 2018-08-04 (1:57:56).
- ↑ 34.0 34.1
- ↑ Entrevista, 2021-06-13 (48:27).
- ↑
- ↑
- ↑ Transmisión en vivo, 2017-05-24 (42:22).
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