Originally Posted by Speedloafer

If you buy a game with MT's and you know about it you are accepting you arse getting fucked. The only difference between Forza and GT6 is, Forza straight knocked you out and mounted you on the spot. GT6 is the a nice meal and a bottle of wine. Setting you up for GT7 to come in and bend you over...

I've said in other threads why I suspect that won't happen - or, to be a bit more accurate, why I suspect that doing that would be a very unwise decision.

One thing that's overlooked about F2P versus paymium is the sources of revenue. F2P's primary source of revenue is through the microtransactions, primarily big-spending whales. With paymium, though, the primary source of revenue is sales of the game itself, and any decisions about changing the game flow to promote the sale of microtransactions should bear that in mind - you don't want to cripple your primary revenue source in the process of seeking out a secondary revenue source.

That's why I think we'll get a period of experimentation - Forza and GT6 as examples of that currently - and when all's said and done, we'll end up with a grind balanced much like it always was, with microtransactions allowing you to skip parts if you so wish.

Of course, that's a prediction; it's going to be somewhat dependent on how the economy of things pans out, but I doubt it'll go to the extent that the microtransaction revenue exceeds the revenue from actual sales.