Microtransactions

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Will Victoria 2 be using the microtransaction model that's in Majesty 2?

Will there be an in game shop where you can purchase the following:

500 Blue Coins for a new 'telegraph pole' province improvement

1000 Blue Coins for a new 'bakelite' resource

5000 Blue Coins for an American Civil War scenario

10000 Blue Coins for extra provinces and buffed stats for Balkan Nations

I think the Microtransaction model is definitely the path of the future and will help enhance the Victoria 2 playing experience.

 

[TiggyFiggy]

i would never pay for it, and probably not buy the game if it were anything like the model you propose

 

[OHgamer]

Let's keep on topic folks

And doesn't Paradox already have something similar to this with the development of the sprite packs players can purchase for HoI3?

 

[Searry]

lol

 

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I do NOT support this and I can accept that Paradox makes expansions but DLC I dislike.

 

[King]

No, there will not be things like for micro transactions. If we do do microtransactions it will be things like sprite packs. They will not be essential to play the game.

 

[wilcoxchar]

I like the model that Paradox is using so far with HOI3. Make purely cosmetic things like sprite packs into DLC, but everything that affects gameplay is part of the normal game or expansions.

 

[JoeGiavani]

I actually don't mind paying a small amount for things like sprite packs.
A few quid for some sprites, or 15 for an expansion, but things in between tend to be a bit...meh.

 

[naggy]

A POP Sprite pack where each POP is a Paradox employee?

 

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A POP Sprite pack where each POP is a Paradox employee?

with Fredrick as the fat capitalist, johan as an aristocrat, and King as a laborer, and moders as slaves?
I dig it

 

[the_legion]

Make the game 10 € more expensive if you want but if I want to
buy a game I want the whole game and not parts of it.
However, there are companies that try to deny that you purchase
any ownership over your software. I understand that Software-
Development is an expensive business so I'm willing to pay
even 100 € if it's worth it and I want to own something if I buy it :rofl:

As everyone (I know) playes HOI with counters, spritepacs are ok als DLC
but I'm not a fan of it. Maybe you can add free sprites for pre-orders. This way the real fans (that buy vírtually everything with the para-logo) can save a few €s. That would be a fair way imho.

 

[naggy]

Make Communism and Socialism available only as microtransactions.

No irony here.

 

[Mammut]

with Fredrick as the fat capitalist, johan as an aristocrat, and King as a laborer, and moders as slaves?
I dig it

Johan must be clergy, he is after all the prophet of the PI cult

(for those who dont understand this there was a long time ago a thread here on the forum were Johan was appointed prophet of the PI cult and the rest of the PI people was given their own places in the cults hierarchy, ahh the good old days )

On topic:

spirit pack is good enough, I might even buy some for Vicky2 if they are good.

 

[Bob Ilyani]

No, there will not be things like for micro transactions. If we do do microtransactions it will be things like sprite packs. They will not be essential to play the game.

Good. Things like microtransactions would kill this game, but sprite packs are alright if you want to buy them.

 

[Snaake]

Sprite Packs could be nice.

I think scenarios would also be good products for microtransactions (independent things not needed to play the base game), but I'm not that certain there'd be enough demand for them to be profitable, so I'd prefer for (modder-assisted?) scenarios to be included in patches or expansions.

Anything necessary for playing the game like resources, provinces, techs, political ideologies or such should be in the base game.

 

[SpartanSoldier]

No, there will not be things like for micro transactions. If we do do microtransactions it will be things like sprite packs. They will not be essential to play the game.

Thank you and please don't ever deiviate from this model. I am against all DLC in principle, but wouldn't mind if it only added asthetics to the game. CA has already lost my business in large part because of this and I truly hope both Paradox and Fraxis can steer clear of this kind of greed.

 

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Will Victoria 2 be using the microtransaction model that's in Majesty 2?

Will there be an in game shop where you can purchase the following:

500 Blue Coins for a new 'telegraph pole' province improvement

1000 Blue Coins for a new 'bakelite' resource

5000 Blue Coins for an American Civil War scenario

10000 Blue Coins for extra provinces and buffed stats for Balkan Nations

I think the Microtransaction model is definitely the path of the future and will help enhance the Victoria 2 playing experience.

Microtransactions for core features of gameplay upset players to an, ahem, very high degree. For vanity and special features I think they're fine, but please no microtransactions for core events like the ACW

 

[darktalon]

No, there will not be things like for micro transactions. If we do do microtransactions it will be things like sprite packs. They will not be essential to play the game.

Thank f*** for that.

 

[King]

Thank you and please don't ever deiviate from this model. I am against all DLC in principle, but wouldn't mind if it only added asthetics to the game. CA has already lost my business in large part because of this and I truly hope both Paradox and Fraxis can steer clear of this kind of greed.

We won't. I am not going to lie to you, this is a business so as such we have a finite ammount of money to make a game. If we go to far over this budget that will be out last game. DLC and expansions is a way for us to add more to our games without us going bust However we have a clear policy, DLC does not alter game play.

 

[Weijun]

Personally, I would prefer that all vanity content go into a collector's edition.

While I am predisposed to buy Paradox games, I am only a die-hard fan for certain series. I only grabbed HOI3 because it was on sale. Victoria 2, on the other hand, is a game I would pay extra to get.

With micropayments, price is not the issue. Rather, it is overcoming the psychological hurdle of making an additional purchase. I might buy anything you sell in the Victoria series, but as a general rule, I am much more likely to buy vanity content if it comes bundled with the game.