Online subscription. Fair or not fair?

[Birimbau]

Ka-pi96 said:

Birimbau said:

It's not only the cost to mantain servers on, but pay a team to keep working on the games to bring new content and so forth, it is heavy mainly in MMOs.

Isn't that what buying expansions/DLC is for? Why should you need to pay for a subscription if you're already paying for the new content they're working on?

Most MMOs are either subscription or F2P/microtransaction only, being the majority F2P (Aion case) or B2P (Guild Wars 2 case) with microtransactions because it attracts more players than  having a sub, the old sub model is getting more and more unpopular as the time goes on, [WoW for example has all 3 models at once (buy the game (B2P)/pay sub/has microtransactions) which explains why it is losing players on a steadily basis].

 

The F2P + microtransactions model is what is attracting more players today. Lots of games make billion+ yearly revenues being free to play with only having microtransactions, like League of Legends.

Last edited by Birimbau - on 20 March 2018