I don't think people are arguing that anet needs to make money.The argument is they would like to see anet put as much effort into providing expansion-like content in the game and funnel resources into abandoned gamemodes with at least half the vigor of what they do with the gemstore and finding ways to monetize poorly packaged or designed 'garbage'.The game is just screaming 'buy this now' rather than 'play this now' Right, and money also funds game development, so let’s complain that Anet is trying to make money... That’s a smart idea! Some of you think it must be easy and cheap to develop a game and that things happen overnight. Only a tiny fraction of that money goes back to development (even less these days). You can pretend the main purpose for the increasingly aggressive monetization is development funding but that won't make it true. Repeating it like a mantra wont do it either. Anyone who has been with the game long enough can tell the difference. If the monetization is increasing but the game is looking cheaper, it doesn't take a genius to figure out where the money goes. In the end, we bought a game not a store. If the store ends up looking like it's the priority, why should I care if they can keep the lights on?I don't mean to bring up other games but WoW is a great example of what you're saying. The amount of money they are given to the content received is non comparable.
I don't think people are arguing that anet needs to make money.The argument is they would like to see anet put as much effort into providing expansion-like content in the game and funnel resources into abandoned gamemodes with at least half the vigor of what they do with the gemstore and finding ways to monetize poorly packaged or designed 'garbage'.The game is just screaming 'buy this now' rather than 'play this now' Right, and money also funds game development, so let’s complain that Anet is trying to make money... That’s a smart idea! Some of you think it must be easy and cheap to develop a game and that things happen overnight. Only a tiny fraction of that money goes back to development (even less these days). You can pretend the main purpose for the increasingly aggressive monetization is development funding but that won't make it true. Repeating it like a mantra wont do it either. Anyone who has been with the game long enough can tell the difference. If the monetization is increasing but the game is looking cheaper, it doesn't take a genius to figure out where the money goes. In the end, we bought a game not a store. If the store ends up looking like it's the priority, why should I care if they can keep the lights on?I don't mean to bring up other games but WoW is a great example of what you're saying. The amount of money they are given to the content received is non comparable.
