Serious Sunday: "Free to Play" Games - "Pay to Win" vs. "Pay to Progress"
1Jon & Luke return to the topic of Free to Play games this week. Continuing from last week's episode, this time they discuss the differences between games that legitimately deserve the title "Pay to Win", versus the much more common and less understood "Pay to Progress" model - the differences, and what they mean in the industry. They also talk arcade games, and whether they fit the model or not.
Serious Sunday is a freeform roundtable discussion between the members of the Level 0 NPCs, where a specific topic is pre-selected by the group to be explored and discussed at length. Each of the NPCs approach the topic from both the perspective of a seasoned, die-hard gamer, and as creators of games themselves. Part freeform review, part critical analysis, part video game book club, Serious Sunday is where the NPCs take a step back and take a moment to give a serious look at something that is important to the industry, or games in general.
Background footage is taken from Star Wars: The Old Republic by BioWare & Electronic Arts