postman

For months people have been asking, crying, whining about a trial for Darkfall. For almost a year in fact. Well it has finally happened, Aventurine is offering a seven day trial for Darkfall....for $1. Yes that is correct. For $1 you can scamper around Agon on your noobie toon and get ganked helplessly by goblins and other dollar noobies. Good thing?

Yes, the game needs it, its needs easy access to a trial to help bolster the population and gain more exposure for a pretty good game. Darkfall is a game that everyone loves to hate, and this internet stigma has kept away many potential customers from coughing up $50 to try it out.

So why am I writing this instead of actually working on a Thursday morning? Because, low and behold, people are now bitching....about a dollar. People are actually complaining about having to spend a dollar on a trial for a video game. Thank you internet for reminding me that the rest of humanity is relatively worthless.

Exhibit A: An article on massivley.com regarding the trial:
http://www.massively.com/2010/02/24/...or-one-dollar/

Exhibit B: Similar article on mmorpg.com:
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/270671

There is a common theme of whining between the comments posted:
1) Too cheap to pay a dollar
2) Scared to give credit card information for a single dollar to a video game company
3) Generic troll/hater
4) Idiot
5) AV is broke, needs a dollar for trials to keep game going etc etc etc lolz

So lets look at this another way and see what we can buy for a dollar:
1) you can feed a family in Haiti for a day (boring)
2) you can buy 2 small packages of gummy bears at the gas station
3) you can buy less than 1/2 a gallon of gas in South Dakota
4) in some parts of the world you "might" be able to purchase sexual favors from a transvestite prostitute.....(times are rough with the global economic crisis)
5) you can buy a shitty cup of coffee
6) or potentially 101 other things that can be found here none of which have the potential to offer 7 full days of entertainment

Take a look at page 2 of the massively comments i decided to chime and in with my 2 cents.

If you are too cheap to pay a dollar to try Darkfall, then Darkfall is definitely not the game you should be playing. A dollar means nothing to most of the world that has access to the internet. If you are that worried about a single dollar for 7 days worth of potential entertainemnt, then you are going to ragequit Darkfall the first time you are steamrolled and dry lotted by another player, and then further pollute the internet with whiny posts about the game being unbalanced and unfair and how much everything Darkfall sucks etc etc etc.

If you are scared to give your credit card information to a game development company for a single dollar why are you playing MMOs? You (being the unintelligent generic MMO gamer) run the same risk buying something at Amazon.com, or buying a hamburger at McDonalds. In all reality the likelihood of the pimply mouthbreathing pubbie at the drive up stealing your credit card info is far greater than Aventurine being compromised and your information stolen.

So why a dollar? I have no idea, but it makes senses. Hackers have been a problem in DF, no one will deny it. Trials are a breeding ground for them. If Mr.Hacker has to pay a dollar for his trial, AV can potentially ban the credit card when Mr.Hacker is busted. The same premise holds true for gold farmers that are notorious for exploiting trials. A dollar, however insignificant could, but most likely will not, bring in a very small revenue for the company, which is more than likely absorbed in overhead, or vultured by the credit card companies for transaction fees. That dollar could be charged instead of limiting your trial to a certain area, or level range like other games trails.

So really its just a dollar. Internet.....get over yourself, your making the rest of us gamers that are not cheap assholes, your making us look bad.

That dollar is what separates the e-men from the e-boys.