Talk:Ward/@comment-4664737-20121023042546/@comment-82.19.111.30-20130221202956

IP is not free - it simply doesn't cost currency. Instead, it costs time. This is not semantics, it’s the facts. Just keep in mind what you consider ‘free’ is not necessarily free to everyone else. If you doubt this, go talk to some cancer patients about how time is free.

Regarding the actual subject: it rather seems like Riot is testing out the Asian markets micro payments scheme. I suppose, to most of Asia, buying 52 weeks worth of something sounds legitimate, while, of course, to Western-like societies, it sounds so idiotic that it must be some kind of joke. It’s simply a difference of perspective/opinion.

Obviously my perspective is against micro payments. The day we start down that road (which we already have, with things like Downloadable Content) is the day you’ll find yourself forking over a lot more money than you ever did to just outright buy the content. It’s no secret that you can milk humans for way more than usual if you just charge them individually small and frequent amounts. People are dumb, and impulse buying is easy when it’s “Only £2.00”. Problem is (as the world-wide debt problems shows us) there are very, very, VERY few humans who are capable of actually managing their money properly. Whole governments can’t manage their funds properly, so there really isn’t much to make me think the average Joe can.

