Dravenet7 said:
My best guess is for marketing purposes. It was generally sparked in direct comparison with the free-to-play system because it seems much more appealing due to the fact that it is much more accurate branding. Whereas free-to-play has become synonymous with pay-2-win and so forth, free-to-start can be easily be perceived as a means to have satisfactory quality content before you buy the full game. By all means it is really just a demo. However, it bears the slight deviation that you are always guaranteed to be able to immediately buy the full game at any time under the free-to-start name. Kind of like all thumbs are fingers but not all fingers are thumbs. I would put more recent beta access games in the same category as a demo, but that's really much opinionated viewpoint imo. |
Isn't free-to-start what Nintendo calls its free to play games? I think they used it with pokemon shuffle, as well as their future mobile games...?
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