| Mad55 said: I liked tekken revolution, but definately prefer the model of paying 60 dollars for the full product. I will say that they could make different versions where you pay for everything or you can pay for tokens and a character at your discretion, but overall I feel like most people want all their content from the go for an established francchise like tekken. |
Yh, I get where you are coming from. But I am not even saying that the free to play model be like tekken revolution or like killer instict wheer you pay for more characters or to upgrade charcter stats.
The model I am thinking of would have the entire game be unlocked to you on day one. The only things you would pay for are tokens to play and chracter customization items. Nothing more; even the tokens you won't have to pay for cause just like tekken revolution you can get free tokens every 30mins but can only hold a maximum of 5 free tokens. But an unlimited number of paid tokens.
This game model is based on in game add support. So every token basically represents 2 guranteed ad hits for them, one during the character select screen and one during the transition screen just before the fight starts (in between charcater select and fight). So if 1 million people play every day for as many games as their 5 free tokens can get them, you are looking at a miimum fo 5M matches every day and a generated 10M ad hits per day. Thats better than most websites manage. Money made from people actually buying tokens to play or customization items will just be a bonus. And it would be easy getting over a million people to play when playing is free. and you are getting the full content of the game. Even practice sessions will cost a token. Though whil ein a session you can practice for as long as you want.
The whole point of all this is to eliminate that barrier of entry. You stand a better chance of getting millions more poeple to try your game if you can make them game free. And in truth, very few gaming genres out there can benefit from a free to play model such as this than fighting games. That after all is excatly what they did back in the arcade days.
