sorry joe Pay to Win servers

[Maxposting]

Hello.

I have recently rediscovered the servers with pay to win/microtransactions

These servers are with mods that incorporate microtransactions and paid content using mods, and I would like to know whether this is allowed, as with the march 2022 policy.

Screenshots of the ingame shop:

Spoiler

 

[Baark0]

who spends money on these things lmao, its not even like a mobile game where at least the stuff u buy is with u everywhere, here it just looks like its for the one server

[PetulantPansy]

so people are effectively paying these guys to write a spawn code for them? lulll

I assume some of the items are "novel creations" but still...

 

[SecretPizzaMan]

For a second I got worried because of the title. Was thinking "Oh no they got to __IvoCZE__".

Besides from that I agree with Baark0 and PetulantPansy, who the hell spends money on this crap?

[Auth]

Does... does it spawn skinned items, too?

Hrm. How dubious!

[-Variant]

Oh dear.

[mima_]

im impressed with 112 people that willing to spend money to buy items that can be obtained easily in game 

[jan Mele]

34 minutes ago, prettynuggets said:

im impressed with 112 people that willing to spend money to buy items that can be obtained easily in game 

I am sure a lot of them didn't buy anything

unless the server is also pay to play.

[Maxposting]

14 minutes ago, jan Mele said:

I am sure a lot of them didn't buy anything

unless the server is also pay to play.

There is a ridiculous amount of players at a given time, it's fairly inevitable that they buy something.

[jan Mele]

1 minute ago, __IvoCZE__ said:

There is a ridiculous amount of players at a given time, it's fairly inevitable that they buy something.

Yes, just doesn't mean everyone did it.

[dish-order man]

Joe gonna lost a few more hairs because of this, and I hope he doesn't have a “mid-life crisis”.

 

In all seriousness, these servers are an ostensible financial trap. But as far as I know, they（the players or owner of the servers） will write some automated local mods, and use the mods in the server to hang up to get supplies, just like Idle game. Every morning before work or classes they come to the servers to check how many supplied they get after one-night hanging up and they call this "pick up vegetables"(just like some farm game). This makes the server itself appear to have a lot of real players, but there may not be as many people actually playing it presents.

 

I agree to limit these things, but it seems to be a very difficult problem to solve, as all sandbox games might exist.

Again, I wish Joe not lost so much hair because of this.

[MondayNight]

6 hours ago, dish-order man said:

...these servers are an ostensible financial trap. But as far as I know, they（the players or owner of the servers） will write some automated local mods, and use the mods in the server to hang up to get supplies, just like Idle game. Every morning before work or classes they come to the servers to check how many supplied they get after one-night hanging up and they call this "pick up vegetables"(just like some farm game). This makes the server itself appear to have a lot of real players, but there may not be as many people actually playing it presents.

Isn't this like... pay to idle?

Why?

[Waynel]

that moment when you exterminate the entire local goat herd to sell your own overpriced horns

[Falkenpelz]

All the shadyness aside, who would pay for stingers?? I'd have paid people to get rid of them before they became burnable.

Edit: This server has a worse economy than Hamlet, stuffed eggplant lol

[dish-order man]

31 minutes ago, x0-VERSUS-1y said:

Isn't this like... pay to idle?

Why?

Man, it seems that you seldom play this kind of game that is famous by its internal purchase. The game itself is not paid. What you pay is all the enhanced property.

The core logic of this kind of game is to bind your time or money. It will give players a set of basic properties at the beginning, so that players can "start from empty-handed". Then players need to upgrade their property to deal with the environment or the hunting of other players. The core point is to obtain the common currency used to upgrade their property. Generally speaking, there are two ways to obtain:

1. p2w.

2. Spend a lot of time accumulating property.

 

So purpose of players to idle is to automatically acquire property (according to time), but they still pay the electricity bill, yes. But you know, China's infrastructure is very complete, and it is almost impossible for electricity prices to rise.

Therefore, in fact, they are not pay to idle. They choose idle in order to obtain property without paying the price of money. Of course, this is only the practice of some people. In other games, there is the same logic, and the corresponding software is called "plug-in", aka "cheater".

 

of course,most of the players need to spend lots of time or money to avoid being “Game content of powerful players”. There is a saying goes in my community that “Free is the most expensive, because free players are the game content of paid players.”

 

i hope my **** English could explain it clearly...

[CaptainChaotica]

11 hours ago, Falkenpelz said:

All the shadyness aside, who would pay for stingers?? I'd have paid people to get rid of them before they became burnable.

I had to download a MOD to make all the extra stingers non-useless.  ("Spike Trap" if anyone wonders.  It makes a tooth-trap-esque thing that kills enemies with stingers instead of teeth.)  

Y'know, if you went onto my server and asked nicely, I'd spawn basic resources for you for FREE...nothing game-breakingly powerful, and I don't have all the skins, but if you want freaking rot you can HAVE your freaking rot!  Heck, just lemme wander around the birch forest for a bit...

...Notorious

[LiamAshvinn001]

I found a way to avoid these kind of servers

1) Open Don't Starve Together

2) Press host game

3) Choose World Settings or Mods you want

4) Play

[Eughstein]

me on my way to buy items on dst server using real money just to see new player get them in 5 dst days for free

[hhh2]

I can believe these people spend money on this. Chinese players especially, since they are the biggest moblie game consumers microtransactions are the defacto way any game makes money in china. I'm sure you've all heard about the "wale" thing, i'm guessing a few of those 100 players spend a lot of money there.

What I don't get is why DST? There are plenty of MMOs which do this kinda thing.

Also, god bless you playing on 800ms delay :O

[1bubbainpa]

Okay, but why does a koalaphant trunk cost more then a walrus tusk. That’s the real sin here.

[jan Mele]

Just now, 1bubbainpa said:

truck

 

[thesooz9000]

This reminds me of the one time i went onto a chinese server RPG or something, it had a straight up story line, a completely different map, custom commands, and most importantly, so many micro transactions, and it had a bunch of weird leveling up mechanics, it was definetely very interesting.

[jan Mele]

22 minutes ago, thesooz9000 said:

This reminds me of the one time i went onto a chinese server RPG or something, it had a straight up story line, a completely different map, custom commands, and most importantly, so many micro transactions, and it had a bunch of weird leveling up mechanics, it was definetely very interesting.

I remember seeing a lot of fighting focused servers with custom maps, pve or pvp, the amount of mods varied. The latter often featured progression of some sort. I remember one having a football minigame, and another having a gravedigging event (basically, players have to dig graves and score is based on amount of items they got). There were a number of rp and creative mode servers aswell. Nothing that crazy tho.