Okay so about premium and servers first...
well.. u can simply look at moba or mmo games right here, dunno how it looks in fortnite, battlerite or realm royale...
as an example gonna use Hirez Smite game.
Basically u can get everything for free, i know about it cause i spent like 1800 hours in this game... u can get premium currency for free by just playing game or login to game, or doing event quests. and game is still fine, free, and stuff. servers are maintained somehow, not lagging, and workers still add cosmetic items/skins to game.
Million players in Apex? im pretty sure it's not even half of it.
it's gonna be really okayish if there's 100.000-150.000 players total.
About currency and limited free2play friendly system
Let's be honest now... if someone wants to spend money, will do this. If not - simply won't.
I bought battlepass myself, but this is only spend i did in this game without willing to spend more (except another battlepass)
so i would rather seek a future shop updates including some LegendCoins better offers, and some actual stuff purchasable with that.
Right now store ingame is more into favouring richer players with more in wallets to spend. Not everyones either salary or country, or both allows to spend excesive amount of money into games.
i really hope developers gonna make decision/update which gonna be win-win situation.
In heroes of the storm you still have to unlock ALOT of the heroes right?
and it takes weeks for any casual player to get 1?
So you can't play the game to the fullest without throwing some money in it OR spending hours and hours grinding?
And don't compare that to apex..
You can unlock 3 legends.
In the end its a shooter and the legend does not matter that much.
And you can unlock all of them on reaching 100....
In HOTS you can't play for a HUGE part of the game without insane 1800 hours grinding or throwing money at it?
Because that game is ALL about the heroes and the skills they bring.
Its a bad comparison and i hope apex won't be like those games!
Because paying gives you somewhat of a advantage in the game.
IMO that is almost the worst way of getting money.
The only thing worse is to make special in game advantages ONLY available of you throw money at it.
The company you talk about created wow as well.
First you pay 60-70,- to get the game latest expansion.
then you pay 12,- month
And then you still have to pay to get some of the mounts / pets in the game.
Kudos to that!
I don't see how that is win-win
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