why free to play?! just let people pay and STOP with the live service

[LFP Gaming]

why free to play?! just let people pay and STOP with the live service

[Ordisoftware]

The F2P, with DLCs or in-game purchases, if this is the model implemented, ensures long-term sustainability, constant content updates, and a wider player base, as long as it maintains a fair balance between monetization and gameplay experience, and that the players are motivated.

We can imagine new map areas, new quests, for a story and therefore an endless game. Single-price online games cannot maintain servers for more than a few months to a few years and inevitably end up shutting down.

In single player mode, as in multiplayer mode that this game offers.

We will see later what it is about.

[Deklatis]

Originally posted by Ordisoftware:

The F2P, with DLCs or in-game purchases, if this is the model implemented, ensures long-term sustainability, constant content updates, and a wider player base, as long as it maintains a fair balance between monetization and gameplay experience, and that the players are motivated.

We can imagine new map areas, new quests, for a story and therefore an endless game. Single-price online games cannot maintain servers for more than a few months to a few years and inevitably end up shutting down.

In single player mode, as in multiplayer mode that this game offers.

We will see later what it is about.

Conan and Ark have all of that and they are still alive and getting content. With F2P that means we don't get to make the world ours. No player maps, no player mods, no private servers.

[TheShadowHatter]

because they don't care about YOU not spending money. they care about the whale that's going to drop $300 to get some special skin/mount/gacha roll/whatever, and trust me, there's a LOT of whales like that in this world. if you truly don't like this, then just play another game. complaining about it, yet playing it anyways, won't do anything but make you more mad about something that won't fundamentally change unless they see a BIG shift of whales not throwing money at them, which isn't happening anytime soon.

[Ordisoftware]

They "don't care" about your $300: they like to produce a good game and please players, and they have to pay them to live as well as marketing, servers and many other things. Can you understand that the problem of F2P is not the game economical model but the players?

[EeazyLee]

Doesn´t make it better with a F2P Model charge your Price for stolen Ideas from other Dev´s no one cares but trying to milk that with MTX and Gacha BS i´m out and i´m not interested if that is their "FTP Vision" they can keep that Ripoff.

[EeazyLee]

Originally posted by Ordisoftware:

Who "stole" whose ideas?

If you don´t see maybe 3-4 Games in this, copying the Artstyle,Combat and Mechanics then i can´t help you.

[Ordisoftware]

Who "stole" whose ideas? This is a trick question, because "devs" always work for a producer as well as partners comities who order the realization of a project by saying what to obtain, for good or bad, unless having enough money to self-finance.

[Solhaven]

After watching some actual gameplay footage of the game it resembles more Palworld than anything else the f2p model makes even less sense now when considering it will play very much like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9XNT8vTdeM

[Teratus]

Best thing about live service games is you don't have to pay a cent for the live service crap.

If this game is going to be free then they're going to have to make content DLC's if they want my money.
I'm not paying for battlepasses, i'm not buying cosmetics and im certainly not paying for crap like level up's etc.

Sell me actual content, expansions etc.

[Call Sign: Raven]

Originally posted by Ordisoftware:

The F2P, with DLCs or in-game purchases, if this is the model implemented, ensures long-term sustainability, constant content updates, and a wider player base, as long as it maintains a fair balance between monetization and gameplay experience, and that the players are motivated.

We can imagine new map areas, new quests, for a story and therefore an endless game. Single-price online games cannot maintain servers for more than a few months to a few years and inevitably end up shutting down.

In single player mode, as in multiplayer mode that this game offers.

We will see later what it is about.

It does NOT ensure long term sustainability. That is ensured by an actual player-base. Without a community, a game like this won't matter.

[Ordisoftware]

It's what I said: motivate players with reasonably priced content over the long term, like in a funfair or a casino.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-to-play

[Call Sign: Raven]

Originally posted by Ordisoftware:

It's what I said: motivate players with reasonably priced content over the long term, like in a funfair or a casino.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-to-play

I'm not motivated to play this game that has a setting, movesets and animations from games I've already played, thanks.

[Ordisoftware]

Your choice. Be happy.

[Deimos Tel`Arin]

live service makes more money than normal games.

normal games
- spend years to develop
- sold off one time
- updates
- dlc maybe ?

live service games
- spend years to develop
- free to play
- whales keep on spending because of skins
- updates
- whales keep on spending
- skins
- whales keep on spending
- skins
- whales keep on spending
- skins
- whales keep on spending

well you get the idea

[Ordisoftware]

You have never played a real good F2P online game that provides new content week after week and month after month for years. What you are saying about skins is nonsense and slander. You have no idea how much joy this can provide in good conditions.