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Are F2P models more successful with a declined socioeconomic society?
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And so far, all evidence is pointing to F2P working fine. It is making more money than p2p and it is growing. That is the definition of "work".
No, subscriptions put a minimum on what a player *MUST* spend. You *MUST* spend $15 a month. You can spend more in the shop. F2P says you don't have to spend anything, but you *CAN* if you want. You are very correct that there is a reason many entertainment venues are going that way, because more people like it than don't.
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I'm not, I've never paid a penny in a F2P game and neither have the majority of people who play them.
Do try again though.
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He has no truth. All evidence points to most players don't pay a dime.
http://www.playnomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Playnomics-Q1-Engagement-Report.pdf
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/195806/chasing_the_whale_examining_the_.php
People just don't want to pay for things ahead if they are not certain they will use it to it's full value or not.
It is the same reason why a lot of people don't join a gym or martial arts or yoga classes - it is not because people don't want to get fit and exercise but it is because they are not certain they can have the free time to go frequent enough to make their membership worthwhile, so they instead join the ones that can be pay by per lesson/session. Modern day people's lives are hectic and it is not easy to have regular schedule time to do things.
That's why pay-as-you-go system tends to popular, unless there is significant benefit to going sub (ie. it is very cheap).
Well, to answer your question, it is actually very simple.
All AAA MMORPGs are made by medium to big size companies, which means the rely on Marketing rather than Creativity.
When the Game Producer need to explain to the Board of Directors why his game will be successful, he has to talk about numbers, not theories.
The numbers comes from the Marketing Department that through a marketing research, decide what game design will work and what won't.
If the Game Producer start describing his theory to the Board based on his gut feelings, that's not what the board wants to hear............they want solid numbers, hence why all recent MMORPGs look so similar, because they are made to satisfy certain marketing criteria.
The thing is though that games are Art, and need Creativity, Passion, and Gut instinct to be successful.
The Marketing approach in MMORPGs and Gaming in general, do not work too well.
The most succesful games are made by Indie Developers simply because they put creativity ahead of marketing when they make their game.
Think about Bioware, how much they changed since they've been bought by EA, so much that even their founders "retired" in order to avoid being associated with EA+Bioware.
The latest Dragon Age and Mass Effect are still good, but not as good as the previous ones, and I am sure that we will see the full destructive force of EA in the next instalment of those games, now that the original founders of Bioware left.
Big Companies need to trust more Game Producers/Designers, only this way we can see innovative new games.
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The only evidence I've seen is a poster on this site telling us the results of his self administered in-game poll which showed most players were paying $60 a month or much much more. I encourage others do their own poll. Look, I can quote gamasutra too:
Luckily, i don't need you to like me to enjoy video games. -nariusseldon.
In F2P I think it's more a case of the game's trying to play the player's. -laserit