Sorry, but the constant and unending "Korean MMOs are ALL grinders" bullshit that gets tossed around all over the internet just straight-up pisses me off. So much of it is based entirely on the reputation of the Lineage series and nothing else. It's stupid, it's uninformed, and it needs to stop. Like right now.
It especially pisses me off because it intrinsically excludes western MMOs for some unfathomable reason, despite the fact that western MMOs are pretty much exactly the same. It's absurd. Please don't do that.
Now, if you want to talk about business models... that's a whole 'nother ball of wax. There are plenty of arguments to be had both for and against subscription and F2P models. I do not believe for a second that one is intrinsically superior to the other. For that matter, I daresay that a lot of what determines a game's quality is completely irrelevant to the business model. If a game sucks, it'll suck regardless of whether or not it's subscription or F2P, and if a game's developer fails to give good support, how they get their funding is immaterial when their support is lackluster to begin with (just look at World of Warcraft for cryin' out loud, they get no content updates between expansions)!
It especially pisses me off because it intrinsically excludes western MMOs for some unfathomable reason, despite the fact that western MMOs are pretty much exactly the same. It's absurd. Please don't do that.
Now, if you want to talk about business models... that's a whole 'nother ball of wax. There are plenty of arguments to be had both for and against subscription and F2P models. I do not believe for a second that one is intrinsically superior to the other. For that matter, I daresay that a lot of what determines a game's quality is completely irrelevant to the business model. If a game sucks, it'll suck regardless of whether or not it's subscription or F2P, and if a game's developer fails to give good support, how they get their funding is immaterial when their support is lackluster to begin with (just look at World of Warcraft for cryin' out loud, they get no content updates between expansions)!
