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Posted January 27, 2019
Yes, but for a worse reason.

"Free To Play" used to be free to start playing, but then players would have to pay for loot boxes and/or microtransations.

Now, Activision, EA, Bethesda and Ubisoft are pushing the new business model: no free-to-play, but gamers would have to pay a premium price to buy the game first. Then, atop of the $60 to $200 initial price tag. gamers would have to pay additional money for loot boxes and microtransactions. (Fallout 76 is the most recent example to come to mind.)
Post edited January 27, 2019 by ktchong
Posted January 27, 2019
Generally free to play games work by targeting 'whales' who will buy a huge amount of online digital items/advantages that supplement the rest of the population.

Unfortunately the market seems to be over-saturated, and the bad name pulled from mobile games is only making it worse. Not to mention microtransactions and loot boxes i think are not only draining too many people, but leaving a bad taste in their mouth.

There's a ton of MMO F2P games that have died out a while ago. And once you can't afford the servers, any others (all of which are online-only) end up memory-holed.
Posted January 27, 2019
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LiquidOxygen80: I kinda feel like the Kongregate/newgrounds/Armor Games/etc culture and scene has been dead for years, though. There really isn't anything new, fresh or exciting in Flash that's happening to drive the scene, and with the death of Flash support continuing to loom, sites like Kong are basically a memorial to a much different time in the internet's history.

I also feel like that they're courting way to many FB style F2P P2W MMOs in order to keep the doors open. Maybe getting bought out is the end result, but it's very rare that I poke my head into Kong these days.
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mintee: yeah, i hear you. i just took a nostalgic walk thru there and it does seem dead. still for those who havent seen itt before they will get some nice play time out of it. i wonder what will happen to those games if its closes down? some gems id hate to see lost. i already own last door series, i think here on gog and elsewhere.

ive been a sucker for F2P games in the past, all of them got alot of money out of me iin the end due to microtrans. i avoid them now like the plaque
Don't get me wrong, I don't want NG or Kong to go away permanently, just because they serve as a repository for some solid nostalgia and some really good games from that creative boom, even if Flash does go the way of the dodo. I'd still like to occasionally go back and play a few of them.
Posted January 27, 2019
No. The freemium model is just transitioning into AAA titles
Posted January 27, 2019
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Bigs: No. The freemium model is just transitioning into AAA titles
Yeah, pay full price, and then pay again to win. Brave new world...
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