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[Shake Your Rump]

Those examples aren't free to play games though. They have a very different model, the F2P games' entire revenue model is around MTX.

Both XB and PS have the policy that if a game is free to play, it should not need PS+ or Live to play its online features, but if it's a paid product, you need the sub.

Because they want to have their cake and eat it too.

There’s also the fact that far more work and money went into making Gran Turismo and Diablo, than your run of mill simple ftp game like Foam Stars.

Neither of these are sufficient explanations for why free games get free online. “It‘s the policy”, is not an explanation. MTX revenue supplants the retail MSRP, and some games have both. AAA games utilize the same servers and the same internet pipes, why are they penalized?

“Greed” is an explanation, but not the one that Sony gives. Sony claims the PS plus subscription money is “bringing high-quality games and value-added benefits”. So, are free-to-play game not doing this, and why are they permitted to ignore the mandate?

 

[Blackage]

Game is incredibly fun. Played the crap out of it this weekend. It's probably a good thing that there's not a lot of buzz about this beta as it's one of those actual betas where matchmaking and stability is all over the place so if like 200k people were trying to play it would have just gotten bad word of mouth.

I am a little concerned about getting attached as it's a new SquareEnix IP and they don't market things then have surprised Pikachu face when things fail.

It does help that the game is F2P so there's no cost-to-entry, so if they can just get a playerbase goin for this I could see it growing. It's a fun little Splatoon knock-off so if you ever had interest in Splatoon and didn't want to buy Nintendo's garbage Hardware this is a great game to at least try.

 

[ChiefDada]

I wanna try it just to see the trainwreck myself

Lol "trainwreck"? You working overtime for that Microsoft paycheck, huh? Do you, bro. Can't knock the hustle.

 

[adamsapple]

Lol "trainwreck"? You working overtime for that Microsoft paycheck, huh? Do you, bro. Can't knock the hustle.

It's ok, you don't have to defend Foamstars honor

 

[ChiefDada]

It's ok, you don't have to defend Foamstars honor

I'm not. But we know "trainwreck" isn't anywhere near the general consensus going on in the social orbits. All I'm saying is you weren't convincing this time. I could immediately tell it was one of Phil's balls in your throat and not an adam's apple.

 

[ergem]

I downloaded it yesterday but I couldn’t get in. They have a lot of work to do with matchmaking.

 

[Crayon]

Makes sense to me that f2p works without psplus. If someone's just playing f2p games, they might be spending more in those than they would on the sub anyway. Having minimal barrier to entry is the point of f2p. It's an arbitrary business decision. It doesn't matter if you don't think it's consistent or anything.

 

[StueyDuck]

 

[BbMajor7th]

So, wait, this is half decent then? Did not see that coming I must say...

 

[mkacc]

It was pretty fun. I like how the foam builds up and can be use strategically. There were obvious matchmaking issues but that's why this was a beta.
I felt like there's not enough feedback when you hit your opponents and some matches can be incredibly quick to end. I might give it a try when it launches.