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Is this P2P or F2P ?
bmw66
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I hope it pay to play, then I will subscribe. If this a a F2P game then FORGET it.
My first F2P game was the disaster they call Archeage and I will NEVER play a F2P game again.
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According to this article the RU version will have separate f2p and p2p servers.
http://2p.com/6553910_1/Black-Desert-RU-Press-Conference-by-imiguelme.htm
I haven't been able to find any information on pricing structure for NA. I don't think they have decided. But I did read some comments about how this game might come to ps4 and ps4 has a few f2p MMOs (EQNext will also be f2p and on ps4). So, f2p is a strong possibility. However, FFXIV is on ps4 and is p2p. ESO is also coming to ps4 and is p2p. So the precedent for p2p is still there.
You have to consider each game on its merits.
In reality though almost all games launched in the west are "free to play"; although most of them are not "free to buy". Examples: Skyrim; Assassin's Creed; Watdogs; Destiny and so on. You pay upfront.
With a "free to buy" game however you pay nothing upfront with the publisher: And yes in an attempt to make money they sometimes get carried away; Dungeon Keeper Online for example. Others though hope to "entice" you into buying the full game or subsequent chapters etc.
I am sorry but there are not enough sandbox players to support a game like this with pure P2P model. I suggest get used to the whole F2P thing or just quit MMOS. You are just a dip in the ocean.
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This is false.
SWG had 350K subscribers. That's 5.25 million a month. 63 Million a year. And that is for a game that took less than 20 million to make.
EVE has over 500K subscribers. 500k is 7.5 million a month. 90 million a year. And like SWG, did not cost a ton of money.
Both of those games were before WoW and the vast expansion of consumers into the MMO market with tops over 20 million around the world.
There is no reason an actual GOOD sandbox cannot have 1 million subscribers. If they are going F2P, its because they do not believe its good enough to be a success.
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F2P makes more money if it's done wrong.
Sorry but not it does not. Blizzard and 10 million people have proved this wrong while crushing every f2p game out there into the ground without even trying.
Unfortunately yes I think it will go a split model and destroy the game the same way TRION destroyed AA and turning it into a gambling addiction RNG fest.
All games that go the split model turn into the same mess.
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And yet we know what happened with SWG.
Eve is unique because it has no competition in its own genre of space sand box.
Fantasy and land based sandbox MMO market on the other hand not as lucky as EVE.
As much as i love playing sandboxes (Ryzom i miss you). I have to agree with him.
If you think there are enough players to sustain a sandbox FFA PVP MMO purely on sub then you are wrong. It got nothign to do with being good or bad. The market is just not in favor of P2P sandbox.
Would you consider AA a good MMO? forget about what happened to it once Trion got hands on to it. I am talking about AA when it was first released in Korea. And yet it had to go F2P because they were having trouble sustaining on subs alone.
In the short term, that is what is so deceptive about it, the time structure of profit can blind management to the overall return. F2P encourages short term thinking, which most investors are OK with.
Considering 7+ million are chinese and don't pay the same as US/EU that number proves nothing. Subs fluxuate, remember how subs were down by 3 million just a month ago? AA is an RNG fest and thats what destoryed it? Well, expect WoD to kill WoW then since WoD added so much RNG to loot that people are calling it Warlords of Random. Look at all the successful P2P MMOs that aren't based on popular IPs ... oh, there aren't any.
Yeap, cause all the failing P2P within a few months after release don't encourage short term thinking. Maybe if they did they wouldn't fail so hard.
If the game is good enough, it sure can live on a P2P-system. If the game sucks like most MMOs released in the last 10 years however, then F2P is the only way to make some money with it.
Also, a game like EvE Online took two or three years, before it really took off, and CCP simply made the right decision and kept track instead of going F2P.
Most developers these days don't want to wait and develop their playerbase over time tho.
It's a Korean game, so it will be F2P with a strong Cash Shop and quite possibly an optional monthly "premium" sub for some extra benefits.
All the major Korean games have followed this formula in recent years, it is apparently the most profitable. It's unlikely that they will change the monetization much for the "western version", because it would require a redesign of the game.
Problem right now for P2P is that the people who are willing to pay for it, are all in a mmo that don't need anymore money to support that game be very hard to start off the ground with to many big dogs with P2P.
B2P is nice, big problem with them only if you don't like content at all or very sell one, Cost a lot money to keep content coming to keep people with out finding a way make people pay more. Selling only costumes does work and does not but will not help be better game few mmo sell costumes out they make it, or people complain about games that is not p2w but complain that they can't get a free costumes when how 2 mmo that know of make there money the most.
F2P can work for them, will bring more people in then P2P or B2P for them, and all about what type F2P there going to be one easy on the wallet or one just drain you, there are good free to play out there just most people don't play them as there no p2w option for them.
F2P may make more but brings in a lot worse crowd to the game.. a LOT worse of a crowd. That is what primarily turns me off of f2p and that terrible quality of the product....
Terrible quality + terrible community = terrible fucking game. Its already been proven a multitude of times.
That not only f2p is any game really, I had many bad times with the community in a sub and f2p is about the same.
This is a good idea in theory, but has yet to turn into a reality. Pay to win games are not good for the genre, whales supporting games is good for a while, a company could make some money in the short term, but wil not produce a long lasting mmorpg. Do you really think Archeage will have a thriving playerbase 2 years from now? If a short-term money grab is good for the genre I would love to hear how.
What I wonder is if it can avoid the other standard Korean game "trademarks", being hack infested, bot infested, spam infested messes that the developers can't (or won't) get under some control.
Not asking for it to be totally eliminated, I realize that never can be, but lets face it, Korean made MMO's have a really bad track record in this regards, and yes, I'm even including NCSoft titles in there such as L2.
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From Steparu's Q&A:
Q: Payment Model?
A: The Korean version is F2P. The NA/EU/RU versions is still undecided.
A great way to get rid of these terrible business models is stop throwing money at it. People seriously can affect business decisions from these publishers buy voting with their wallet. So for instance if a game is in a CBT and you are hooked and feel it's the 2nd coming of gaming, great. That's your feeling. However, don't just throw money into all the preorder/founder promises. Allow a launch, watch and be a smarter consumer.
Believe it or not all the consumers that bought the $150 AA founders pack really just add to the problem. (If you are still playing the game and have fun, you kind sir/ma'am are excluded) Those who feel they were burned, just keep this in mind. Publisher WILL continue to have these high profit business ideals if you continue to fuel them. We as consumers need to stop supporting these ideals and wait to see the product before we buy.
OT: I cannot predict what this games business model will be, but only assume. If I was head of business and marketing for this publisher and had to follow a path to maximize profit, well, it's quite obviously the choice I would make. Looking at a pattern of spending from other games I would follow the same path in which they took. Founders packs, cash shop and sub options for exclusive perks. So far none of these practices have proven to not have the consumers best interests in mind.
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