Why is game not free to play?
This sums up my post.
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What is this current obsession with free-to-play. Do people not know how economics works! Most so-called 'free to play games are misnomer imo... Are just not that, the microtransactions cost far more than any base price! I really don't want Battlefield becoming World of Tanks or War thunder with insane grinds and stupidly expensive DLC...
@JediMastaWyn wrote:What is this current obsession with free-to-play. Do people not know how economics works! Most so-called 'free to play games are misnomer imo... Are just not that, the microtransactions cost far more than any base price! I really don't want Battlefield becoming World of Tanks or War thunder with insane grinds and stupidly expensive DLC...
But you've chosen the worst examples... what about PoE, Apex. LoL, and all the other F2P games that are very successful? So all the non pay2win games.
The BR from BFV could have cleaned up the market if it had been F2P and if they hadn't pulled the team behind the BR after release.
I've been playing almost only F2P games for the last few years, because the teams behind them are interested in making their game interesting in the long run. Games like BF, come out, are sold over 1 year, then the support is discontinued and the game is dead.
PoE as an example, came out around BF3, is still relevant today, gets a free expansion every 3 months for years. And BF? That had to buy 6x new in the time, and has 6x a bug disaster and missing content until the end. So what is more expensive? A F2P in which you senselessly pump money because it's fun?
- @JediMastaWyn well as it is now, u get to play tripple A premium price + a premium "battlepass" and all u get is to wait another 12 months for the game to have content. Most content is 100% copypasted, do the same thing, looks the same. F-ing hell game been out a week and in my limited sparetime ive already unlocked everything and got boored of the maps, never experienced anything like it. If this game was free i wouldnt be mad, but atleast id get what i didnt pay for
