why isn't this game launching f2p?

[pr1mus]

aren't the plethora of other failed pay2play shooters that crashed not enough warning that releasing a game at a $40 premium isn't going to make anyone want to play your game when there are half a dozen competitors out there that are both less cringe, more populated, and more importantly free to play?

and if the $40 barrier of entry wasn't enough to scare people off, you were already fighting an uphill battle to attract players because the presentation is horrendous, the gameplay looks to be completely derivative and unoriginal and you're making people use third party apps to even launch this thing (you know, that thing that caused Helldivers 2 to starve overnight and that people are completely opposed to using)???

like i have zero interest in this game but the fact we can all tell the servers are shutting down within 6 months (4 months after going F2P after realizing NOBODY is going to pay $40) just due to the incompetence of releasing a $40 hero shooter in the current market just stumps me, what were they THINKING?!?!

[Min/Max]

Firewalk Studios spent too much of money and Sony wants their money back.

[alexander.w]

Because no one wants another f2p game that designed fro the round up to mild people for their money, then ends up getting abandoned because thousands of non paying customers actually cost more money than producing income, as none actually wants to pay for loot boxes, skins etc. Games have been crying for the end of such games and demanding normal pay once games without such systems and with real content updates that require no payments anymore. Endless reasons and also many examples that give reason for making this game a regular purchase game instead of f2p, where devs can only hope that getting thousands of thousands of players attention will give them a small percentage that actually generates income. (which rarely works)

As you mentioned in your question: dozens of games have failed before. This is the number one reason to not make this another f2p title as described above. Also, anyone who doesn't actually want to pay for game (and we have thousand of games coming out that are regular pay2play, so what's the problem) wouldn't have spend anything on a f2p game anyway.

I myself will be very happy getting full content updates with everything for free after release and being able to play with others who actually want to play this game instead of hundreds of toxic f2p players who don't care and ruin the community for all others who enjoy it. This steam discussions here are actually another prove why the decision that where made are good.

And it's very sad that people and also press are bashing on a very good game just for the clicks and money which started before any gameplay was even known. I think gamers should now better but it seems many are easily brainwashed and just follows the general consensus regardless of its reason and content.

[Novawulf]

Originally posted by alexander.w:

I myself will be very happy getting full content updates with everything for free after release

Enjoy playing it by yourself lol, game will be empty in 2 weeks, if not sooner, and the devs will abandon it like other similar projects recently and just state no more updates, then a few months later the servers will shutdown and you can enjoy your paid non functioning and awful when it was working game as a piece of art sat on your game dashboard forever unusable. And yes I did play the beta, I even tried to give it a chance and preordered it again after refunding in case i misjudged it, but its just a ♥♥♥♥ shooter, all the controls and mechanics and gameplay is poor, regardless of the visual design. OW2 is a better product and that's saying something...

Like the irony in your comment that you think f2p leaves a game empty with no players...imagine thinking that when a product has a paid entry and is awful... the people that MIGHT of tried it f2p and MIGHT of stayed won't even look at it when its gated with a paywall, leaving it utterly dead with 10min queues to play against the same 10 people over and over, fun. It will just be another failed arena shooter, because the devs don't understand what people want in games.

[侍Kage]

At this point they know it's doa and no f2p will save them (check open beta numbers). They will just get money as much as possible from people that are unaware. In like 5 months or so they will go f2p and another 5 months later they will shut down the servers. People who bought the game will play it for like a year, most of their playtime will also be vsing the same people or wait on queue. Don't be clueless, don't pay for this game please.

[Uriel]

Playstation game and free to play in the same post ? That's bold of you. Foolish, but bold.

[Gabi]

Originally posted by Uriel:

Playstation game and free to play in the same post ? That's bold of you. Foolish, but bold.

Sony has done it before, they tried it with uncharted 3's mp, they also where the og owners behind Planetside 2 and i'm sure there is more. But sony lately has been making many bad decisions.

[Termix]

Originally posted by Gabi:

Sony has done it before, they tried it with uncharted 3's mp, they also where the og owners behind Planetside 2 and i'm sure there is more. But sony lately has been making many bad decisions.

Foamstars and Destruction All-Stars were also Free2Play for the first month for PS+ members (so basically everyone interested).

And you know how I can prove that they were huge? Nobody even remembers them!

[Iso Koala]

Concord (TM) is the Goty of 2024 and worth 400 dollars.