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I showed my gratitude with the starter-pack where I got 300 Darwinium, which I made perfect use of
That's why I stop playing these P2W games. Its just not fun.
They're all the same.
Their architecture for luring you to spend extra clicks by spending and purchasing currency yoinks the fun right out of trying to plot a pathing.
Pathing = spend money to gain dopamine reward.
Thats the gambler's addiction problem. Once you run out of bank account, you will go into depression. And then you are stuck in that depression cause you have no money to buy your way out of that hole.
Have not seen anything that keeps you from getting further. It is a game to waste some time, not to play competitive.
And playing a free game and complaining sounds like a real first world problem here. You get a fun product for doing nothing... that's called a present/gift. Damning it is pretty much you and your expectations fault and nobodies elses. It is fun, even if you don't pay. You come back later and progress. And here, you even learn something which makes it stand apart from most of the other games.
Sorry, but I like it and that's why I bought the starter Pack after I tested it, nobody has to. And I spent those Darwins only on the Beyond Simulation, which is the most fun for me.
What you said would have been true if you were simply a man walking a path. However, you are a man racing other men on a path.
The leaderboards are competitive. You can pay money to gain an advantage over other players to beat them. When you "win" over other players it yields more rewards. The fact is you can not compete with anyone determined to outspend you. Those players are on steroids.
That cash player gets a trophy and the normal player gets a consolation prize.
Have fun, guys. "Beyond" is one of the most relaxed simulations I've ever played, building my solar system and watching it swirl around is pretty fun for me.
Edit:
Alright, I have seen the global leaderboard now. But be honest, you do know that even without a game where you would be paying money for buffs, the best player on those leaderboards is the one who is playing the game the most, not the guy with the best strategy, just the guy with nothing else to do. So, if that counts as loosing, then I think I'm ok with it.
I meant both. Obviously, you don't fully understand the mechanics. If you did, you'd realize that a determined P2W player can't be beaten. If they have a monthly pass and time flux with cubes they will bury the F2P player in events, the global leaderboard, Mesozoic Valley, Beyond, and Metabit production.
Top 50 in events? That's nothing. These guys are claiming the top 10 spots every time. Those are the only spots that yield useful rewards. Cube purchases drive literally everything in the game.
You said that the game is not P2W. That is a patently false statement.
No i wont just buy the infinity pass.. it forces you to use your steam wallet and not your usual method. and you cant just top up your wallet with how much you want. minimum i can spend to get the boost is £25
Everything in those Event-Leaderboards are for the main Simulations, but what do you get in those cubes that you wont get by playing the game in time? In my view the main simulations have not really a competitive Leaderboard, because we're all not really playing against each other. It is more of a friendly leaderboard of who spent the most time playing, maybe plus spent money for some shortcuts, but nothing here screams you are the better player if you are at the top of a leaderboard. And I like my best 50 rewards.
Interesting idea and I guess it is in the interest of the developers to tear down any barriers for players to repay the developers work on the game. (And maybe something that does not target continuesly filling up the money-slot, maybe a Boost-Light so to speak. Something in between the major boost and nothing.)
Although, I really like the solution in the Beyond-Simulation with the Asteroids in both maps that sometimes can be filled with precious ressources.
Not really currently. At least the top 200 places are occupied by alfa/beta players. Notice they all have reached level 30 in beyond... It's certainly not equal to players who has played the game the most. Incomprehensible decision of the developers to include those in the global public leaderboard.
Definitely true. It's also true that players paying their way through the beyond and Mesozoic Valley would get higher on the leaderboards more quickly. Again, it's not necessarily time played that determines your spot on the global leaderboard.
The poster you are replying to seems to think otherwise, which is fine. However, you can boost yourself Ad Infinitum, by buying or cheating resources. Paying for progress to advance beyond other players is the definition of P2W.
Just play for fun and if some guys wanna spent some money, who cares. It's not like they will stay forever or buy forever. Just keep on playing and at some point you'll get ahead if you want. Like you said, the top players are the ones who are playing the longest.
Anyways.. you are not wrong guys. Pay to Win is always a struggle of the players today, as is for developers to get a constant cashflow going to get rewarded for their continues work. I just don't chase a virtual prize which is like nothing that lasts long enough to enjoy. Just try to have fun right now with what is presented to you or find your fun somewhere else, I guess. World's big enough.
Also,
Actually I regularly finish events in top 10 or at least top 25 without spending anything else than some Darwinium on 4x speed boost and nothing else. I have accumulated 5000+ during the many years of playing the game since version 6 or 7. At that time the game was very relaxing and progress was reasonable. Now... not so much... Particularly not the newer events (24+ hours to finish an event at 4x speed as the newest one (AI) did? Not fun). Why am I still playing? Dunno. Main reason driving me currently is taking my time to reach prestige 10 in Mesozoic Valley. After that goal, most likely no more.
Yes. There are a good amount of players who do. I don't do it. I do the event simply to get the badges, then I quit. I'm starting to wonder why I even so that much anymore. I don't need the speed boost in the main sim.
We hijacked the thread though. The OP wanted an option to simply buy the game and do away with the nonsense. I agree. I don't begrudge the devs making money. I'd be happy to buy the game now as a show of support for the Devs. I don't want to P2W. I don't want to race. I simply want to play and enjoy my single player game.
I imagine the Devs are making money from the current system. If not, they'd change it.
There is no need in paying anything to "win" the rewards of the events. I for one regularly score top 10, recently made my third "1st". I do spend cubes on 4X, sure. Free cubes I got while playing the rest of the game: daily free cubes, daily rewards, geodes, research planets, clicking on the "News" items and whatever else there is. And otherwise I play the game. It of course helps to have 10-15 event badges, and the associated boost, for each event by now. Personally I tried the flux exactly once to see what it does, and was underwhelmed. If anyone "needs" a time flux to get ahead, then sorry, you are holding it wrong.
In short: this game, even the events, are decidedly not pay to win. There is absolutely no need to pay anything. Besides attention.