• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      One minor correction, I believe The Sims 4 went F2P at some point. They’re funded entirely by expansion packs now.

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        8 hours ago

        Yeah, I thought about changing it, but…the problem is that while the base game is playable now for $0, the overwhelming bulk of the game’s content is in expansion packs. Like, I don’t think that people really buy and play just the base game; it’d be more like a demo.

        EDIT: A similar game might be DCS. I mean, yes, technically the base game is free, and you get (checks) a WW2 fighter and a Soviet ground-attack jet. But…basically that acts as a demo, and everyone is going to go out and get at least their favorite aircraft, and most of those aircraft cost about as much as a full-priced video game does. Hell, a couple of them are $80 each.

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          8 hours ago

          That’s fair. Though, by that logic would you consider something like that one Final Fantasy MMO F2P or not? I believe it lets you play all the old content for free and only charges for the last (few?) expansions.

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            50 minutes ago

            I would call it stradling between F2P and Subscription.

            Got 6 months worth of free playtime before I got a sub, at which point I felt more guilty not to.