Dravenet7 said:
Cloudman said:
Dravenet7 said:
Cloudman said:
In this case, isn't this just a demo..? Why give it a different name? |
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.
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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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With Pokemon shuffle I don't recall. I think they mentioned it in a direct so I'll look it up, but I don't think they called it free-to-start. The only one I can really remember was with the newest Pushmo game. Mobile game-wise, I really have no idea what their plan is though I remember they said they would take a different approach or something like that.
EDIT: Couldn't find anything on Pokemon Shuffle, but I did find something on Pokemon Rumble World on the 3DS. Basically its as you said. Free to start has basicaly meant free to play. Sigh...
I definitely should have double checked
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Yeah, that is how I feel when it comes to Ninten and free to start. It's weird and kinda confusing... x ) We'll just stick to their free to start...
