Profile of Hirmetrium

Allowing more content does not devalue what you have, and the free stuff remains free stuff, and the game is the same game.

If the system that delivers said content is detrimental to my experience and level of enjoyment, the game is not the same and it does devalue it.

Dawn of War 2 also got free maps. Your argument is flawed. I was simply using it as an example of a free improvement, something that added to the game and was highly enjoyable and extended the value of the game beyond just "more maps". Variation, flavour.

I was somewhat thinking of this article (as much as I loathe Polygon's awful journalism, I found this a very agreeable well written piece): http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/24/5837722/battlefield-hardline-ea-dice-broken
Things we used to get free, we are now expected to pay for. I can understand why - development is more expensive, content isn't free, but I feel War Spoils is a step even further towards this randomised bullshit system I see in so many games. It's a slippery slope. Relic haven't shared their plans for the system or the next 5 years. Should I be worried? is the game going to get worse? who knows.

We're getting off topic here. All I see is a dangerous trend towards free to play systems. You obviously disagree with me, so I guess we'll agree to disagree then. You obviously don't want to budge on your position.

It's not the same when somebody is using a weapon you don't recognise, know what it does, or understand.

It's the exact same as these unlockable commanders. You can't see them in the army customiser, so how do you know what they are or what they do without that image?

Knowledge is power. A character from a Relic game once said that. Seems knowledge is now a random luck factor.

Please, please, please don't mention TF2. I hate what that game has become. Hat Market Simulator 2014 would be a better title. It's disgusting. I can't enjoy it any more with all the zany crazy stuff that happens.

If COH2 becomes anything close to that I will cry. Next your telling me it will be free to play.

Drop rate adjustment will never fix it if you can get duplicates. People are already saying how commanders they paid for are dropping for them.

We'll give it a few months and see if people still love the system when they have gotten a single commander or just the fortifications/scavenge commander.

People are STILL trotting out the "its better than the old system of pay to win". We've discussed this to death - it was only Pay 2 Win with Elite Troops/Soviet Industry, both of which have been nerfed. There was nothing wrong with the old system of unlocking commanders as you leveled up.

It's not about entitlement, its about a system that is random and impossible to influence. I appreciate you have to earn them - but this isn't a case of leveling or progression. I could get it today, or I could get it a year down the line. That's hardly a fun system to play with, no?