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From what I understand, Chinese love the pay-to-win model of microtransactions. They don't mind at all if you can spend your way to the top, whereas western gam
by Noos 10y ago
From what I understand, Chinese love the pay-to-win model of microtransactions. They don't mind at all if you can spend your way to the top, whereas western gamers tend to flee that type of game fast. I don't mean the usual "you get some advantage if you subscribe" types, like restricting inventory space, but pure power for money.
One thing I would add is that from the little of mass-market stuff that has reached the west, is that Chinese writers are really bad at story. The Detective Dee films are a great example. Nice aesthetic, fun action scenes, but the story is barely Michael Bay Transformers level at best. They you get into the horrid nationalism, like in Ip Man.
- kkarakk 10y agoThis is really true and chinese companies exploit it to the hilt, there is a game i tried called "Revelation Online" that mixes player vs environment(PvE) and player vs player(PvP). It instantly becomes very clear to you as a player that play to win is the theme of the game as you get slaughtered quite easily while trying to accomplish anything in the game. quite frustrating but the in game community treated it as quite common and was blase about it