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For those enraptured with my tales from EAs 'Free 2 Play' (Pay 2 Win) offering Command and Conquer: Tiberium Alliances, the update is thus:
It's not going well.
My alliance just got bollocksed by a group called 'The Inner Circle' who clearly spent a lot of real money buying perks and bonus points to use in-game. Given the number of members and the size of their bases I'd estimate several thousand pounds over the past three months.
Very frustrating having spent several hours a day for the for the past couple of months doing this nonsense only to have it end like this.
But the lessons I'll take away from it are invaluable:
Never play F2P games again.
I can only imagine the damage that could be caused to young minds if MMORPGs were as brutal as this. It's a completely lawless environment. Paid-for online games have mods and admins to report to if things are unevenly balanced. F2P games (with shorter lifespans) actively encourage the imbalance if it means more wedge for them.
I'm going to go have dinner.