User blog comment:ProfessorBrickkeeper/Op-Ed: Why Buy-to-Play is good for LMO (and my experience playing it!)/@comment-2233791-20150622091123

The reason I'm stopping to play is that it's too expensive. Funcom has been trying to let us purchase things to get minifigures. Above that, they keep trying... And based on this I think that the future will bring the same.

When Funcom was starting, people could buy a 6 or 12 month membership. Players get 2 exclusive minifigures if they pay 60$. A little bit later they came up with a steam version. Players who get cheated away - not knowing that it's free to download - have paid a lot for the steam version. I don't know the exact price. Whoever was collecting the minifigures had to buy a dlc from steam to get the fairy. I'm not entirely sure about the price, but I think it was around 80$. Funcom is asking money wherever it can. It never stops, and that's the reason that I don't have money to play this game. Based on what the B2P model brings; yes I hope they find a way to stop asking money. Whoever pays for it, should grant the full ability of the game. Have the ability to collect all minifigures without extra payments. Having the ability to visit all worlds without extra payments.

Looking at LEGO Universe & LEGO Legends of Chima: They has also extra payments. LEGO Universe granted everything, full explore, full collect, full build upon buying a membership (that's the reason I bought a membership for LU - and always was buying a membership when it expired!). In Legends of Chima they had the same system. Upon buying a membership you want granted full explore, full collect, full build. I'm hoping that Funcom will be looking at this. Keeping in mind that there are 4 gaming profiles available: Killers, Achievers, Socialites and Explorers. If they ensure that everything is in their game, they'll have success.

Now, that the game is changing to B2P, I do wonder what is happening with the crashes. Will they fix them? I don't think it will ever become a priority to fix crashes. Even though that Funcom knows that it's not really fun if you constantly keep crashing while playing with friends...

Those pets. I made a blog post about it really long ago. Guess what, they also listed "Teddy Bears, Dogs, Cats, and Spiders" back then. I'm gonna say more. These are currently placeholder data and have been there for 2 months right now. Normally, you cannot play with them currently, what makes me think. Hey, why pull this out if it's not finished yet?