It's time for Free to Play

[O'Rayan]

I think it's time, nobody is gonna buy it anymore. Even with 80% discount, it's not worth it if nobody is playing. Just make it free, try to get as many people as possible to make the game alive. There will be monetization options once we have a good user base. I don't understand why this isn't F2P already, is it really worth for the dev to get 20 bucks now and then?

All the players who bought it don't care at all that they bought a free game. All they want is more players. I'm pretty sure the majority would take this little inconvenience for more players.

[Battle00333]

Publicado originalmente por O'Rayan:

Publicado originalmente por Battle00333:

Well appearently youre wrong! his 17 hours of experience tells that the game doesnt even have enough to fill a 5v5 on sales.
Im sorry tath, but you walked on a mine there :(

There are some people but no 5v5 game or something close.

It, is, Christmas

[Battle00333]

You can go on about arguing that this game should become F2P.

But I'll tell you two things.

1. The majority of the community, WILL disagree.
2. It won't happen until the game has grown to such an extent where marketting and publicity alone, can keep the game running with a sufficient playerbase, and give a sufficient income through microtransactions.

[George]

i like trains...

♥♥♥♥ wrong discussion.

[O'Rayan]

Publicado originalmente por Battle00333:

Publicado originalmente por O'Rayan:

There are some people but no 5v5 game or something close.

It, is, Christmas

It is worst when it's NOT Christmas.

[O'Rayan]

Publicado originalmente por Battle00333:

You can go on about arguing that this game should become F2P.

But I'll tell you two things.

1. The majority of the community, WILL disagree.
2. It won't happen until the game has grown to such an extent where marketting and publicity alone, can keep the game running with a sufficient playerbase, and give a sufficient income through microtransactions.

Microtransaction revenue would be better if it was F2P. The playerbase is not gonna grow more by itself.

[X Kirby]

Publicado originalmente por George^Zeref:

i like trains...

♥♥♥♥ wrong discussion.

Nice try "derailing" the conversation. Didn't work, but I applaud your efforts. Puns were worth.

Publicado originalmente por O'Rayan:

Microtransaction revenue would be better if it was F2P. The playerbase is not gonna grow more by itself.

It wouldn't be enough to sustain the game as of right now. There aren't a lot of items for sale and the dev only gets a cut of the profits, so unless every player went out of their way and spent about $20-$50, the dev wouldn't see enough money to keep the game alive.

[JoshDangIt]

Publicado originalmente por Battle00333:

Publicado originalmente por O'Rayan:

Oh excuse me, 5-10 players on sales? What a difference.

It is CHRISTMAS, Rayan, CHRISTMAS. Did you really think you would see 50 people online, on Christmas!?

I'd assume the servers would be more populated on Christmas, since people are off of school/work.

As for F2P, I'm not sure if the dev could afford it. Plenty of people are active on the American servers so I don't really mind either way. Although, I could imagine many who payed for the game recently feeling burned.

[Battle00333]

Publicado originalmente por JoshDangIt:

As for F2P, I'm not sure if the dev could afford it. Plenty of people are active on the American servers so I don't really mind either way. Although, I could imagine many who payed for the game recently feeling burned.

im not talking about the holiday as a whole, im talking about Today / yesterday

[Sylvanus]

please dont make this free to play wtf why even mention it. f2p games are cancer.

[O'Rayan]

Publicado originalmente por Sand Man (Drake Bell):

please dont make this free to play wtf why even mention it. f2p games are cancer.

But it's better than games without enough players, don't you think?

[Tathendal]

Publicado originalmente por O'Rayan:

Publicado originalmente por Sand Man (Drake Bell):

please dont make this free to play wtf why even mention it. f2p games are cancer.

But it's better than games without enough players, don't you think?

You are repeating yourself. Read my 1st post

[O'Rayan]

Publicado originalmente por Tathendal:

You are repeating yourself. Read my 1st post

There are a bit more players now because of the sales and the holiday time but it's still very low populated. There is max 10 players during this sale and we are currently in a peek time of players like every sale. The population is gonna drop by half after the sale and we will be square one with 2 players max in EU rooms. During this sale, there is 1 healthy room with people in it in EU servers but when that room is filled (8 players) you have to play in a 1 or 2 player room with bots.
You can't play consistently with more than 1-2 players, even during peek time.

[Tathendal]

Publicado originalmente por O'Rayan:

You can't play consistently with more than 1-2 players, even during peek time.

Are you referring "peek time" as in peek-a-boo time? Or what kind of peek time are we talking here?

[O'Rayan]

Publicado originalmente por Tathendal:

Are you referring "peek time" as in peek-a-boo time? Or what kind of peek time are we talking here?

I mean peak, sorry not a native speaker.

[Tathendal]

Publicado originalmente por O'Rayan:

I mean peak, sorry not a native speaker.

If you are not a speaker, are you a microphone?