LordLundin wrote:Heya there.
So ... ahat the actual fuck?
Someone said that redspot is half an hour of fun here and there etc?
When comparing prices I Always compare Entertainment in hours vs Money paid. Half an hour here and there for 15 dollars? That definitely beats the enjoyment you get out of a pizza for the same amount.
As for the argument that we're students and can not afford 15 dollars for a one time payment ... I have a slight request for you. Pick up your computer, and take it to the top of a tall building, then throw it down over the edge ... you can't fucking afford 15 dollars? Unregister from this forum ... why should you have an account? You can't pay the internet bills anyway.
I'd be more than happy to pay for redspot provided we get more updates and I would even do it at it's current state honestly ... although I will admit I want to see ore features, more balancing with items and an actual map but primarily I'd pay for a cheater free Redspot.
I suppose this just goes to show some of us value money differently than others. Time vs money payed? Sure. I’ll go for that. But, considering the quality of the game, to me, it’s not worth paying for – I don’t consider a half hour now and again worth investing my time. I’d rather save the money for something that truly matters to me – something that will impact my life or is necessary. An hour or two a week for something that is highly unbalanced in it’s current state is not worth that investment.
Could I afford it? Sure. Will I pay for it/ Not until it gets either an overhall of the existing features, or something that just sounds too freeking awesome to miss out on. As of now, Redspot, although enjoyable, has none of those things. If it helps, I probably wouldn’t buy Call of Duty or any of the mainstream first-person shooters, either.
But, since we’re talking about time of enjoyment, let me break something down for you:
Tuesday nights, I can go to the movies for $5. I can get dinner for another $10. If I go with someone else, and pay for it, the cost doubles. Let’s call it $40 for the evening. Not only do I get, if the film and food are good, a satisfying two hours, I get a conversation about what we liked/disliked about the film – call it another hour – and another few minutes raving over the dinner. I get a good ride, as it were. If the film is truly good, I get my emotions going – sympathizing for the characters, laughing at them, sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for them to get killed in a back alley or catch the bad guy, whatever the thrill is.. That, to me, is more valuble than getting on and button mashing, putting up with the stupid chat comments (if I don’t just turn it off), putting up with the extremely lame death messages (not my cup of tea, sorry Sam), jumping out of the way of a few grenades, and once I get good at that, being able to do it in my sleep. What I’m saying is, although the cost of redspot is cheap enough and very reasonable, I don’t feel that it justifies it due to the entertainment. The movie, however, is different each individual time, the food (if I don’t stick to the same things), are all different, the conversations are all different, and that makes it worth it.
If I was to go on the cheap, I’d rent a movie from iTunes for 5 bucks, cutting off the other half of the ticket, buy my own soda (I can get a two leter for 2 bucks), my own popcorn (4 bucks for a pack of four, or six for a bag of curnals), make dinner myself (depending on the dinner, let’s call it $10 for two. Yes, I can manage to make a good quality meal for that cheap), and the time extends – I get to make it myself (something I enjoy doing), and that extends to a full evening. Plus, I don’t have to put up with assholes texting or munching popcorn or those uncomfortable chairs.
Let’s even go with a simpler example: audible is $22 a month and I can get anywhere from 10-50 plus hours of entertainment from that. If ew’re talking about time vs money in terms of enjoyment, Redspot, and most audiogames, aren’t on the radar for me.
If Redspot caused me to have to think, strategise, and the game was different each time I played, I would obviously reconsider. Once I get bored of something, that money is now less enjoyable.
There can be something said for a terrible book or movie, too, but we all have to cut our losses sometimes.
I’m not saying “Screw that Redspot isn’t worth paying for,” because, to some, it obviously is. Look at this thread as proof of that. To me, however, it’s not in it’s current form.