Board Thread:Game News/@comment-25392421-20140919134419/@comment-17475-20140926081228

I don't really get what's the strategy behind all this.

I mean, they're enraging their players with impossible tasks, trying to make them spend a "non negligible"  amount of money. And for what? Pixels that you don't really own.

Think about it, if DC closes... you will never see your city again. I played Happy Kingdom and Ravenskye City, I know this very well. Right now you can play the most crappiest 1970 videogames, but you can't play an awesome but closed social game. Because you don't have a phisical copy of it.

Dragons, temples and such... those in-game objects are called "virtual goods". And IMHO you can't make your players pay so much for something that they don't really own... something that doesn't even exist outside a game that we will be unable to keep alive, if and when the developers will decide to drop it and move on.

Really, I'm surprised that the paying players aren't on a purchase strike.