Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20

• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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      • GriffinClaw@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, expensive but high-quality add-ons are the norm for flight sims.

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