SMITE is F2P. Gods(roles) are locked behind paywall. However you can pay 20.99 to unlock all current and FUTURE Gods. Essentially like you bought the full game. This allows BKP to open the gates to all people and still sell the game and make money.
Posted Oct 19, 2017, 2:46 AM UTC
Locked heroes is the dumbest shit ever. Bethesda's Quake should be ashamed. Practically pay2win.
Only logical free2play model is QuickPlay access only, paid players get in Competitive Mode and get to equip skins.
I'd actually rather completely F2P and then there are skin packs where you can pay like €10 for a pack that has like 5 skins or buy individual skins for like €2.50. It takes out the RNG of stash crates, which would still exist for people who want them, but allow people a gateway to the skins they want.
I think there betting on the all Star update to bring players but if that doesn't work ur plan is the best option
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Locking classes behind even more money would be bullshit. But SMITE/Paladins cosmetic and lootcrate system is pretty gud IMO (Not sure whst to think of Paladins' new VIP system though) If we could buy credits directly and some new sets of themed skins (like the new blitzball set) could only be aquired through chests (maybe one LAW one and one BREAKERS one) which you'd have to gamble on a bit to get the right stuff but you'd always fet something from that specific themeset. Other games have NO way to only loot from a smaller pool of cosmetics so I don't feel so bad about those chests. I played Paladins since closed Beta 25 (a little over a year) and I've spent around 200USD on it so far and I don't regret it because the system actually feels pretty okay and I've played it for like 500hrs
The new VIP systems is jsut cosmetics. The Smite way is the best though. Play for free or pay a one time fee to get access to everything gameplay related. In Paladins the fucking cards are just grindable and they are fucking RNG.
No one at this point would ever pay 20 for this game non less few thousand people
Smite is garbage...paragon is the game to be playing...
Sounds really awful for balance.
Why do you have to balance around it?
The game needs everyone having access to all characters, that's why. Man you guys really think the devs and Nexon haven't went over all this shit internally?
What's the point in everybody having access to all characters if everybody is nobody.
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You assume your idea would save the game and bring a bunch of players in. We have seen even when the game is free there isn't many players. The game also just doesn't have enough characters for that style of f2p.
I wouldn't really look at the company that changed from f2p to this price and business model as great minds on the execution of such things, this games biggest downfall is the negative PR from the companies overconfidence in models that don't fit. They went this route because they saw those OW 'dolla dolla billz', not because they didn't think the application other games have executed well enough can't work.
Paladins/Smite/LoL and many other games have a much higher benefit to having access to all the characters. Out of all the character based shooters I play I would say that Lawbreakers is probably the least important due to lack of hard counters or strict class compositions (casual with these numbers is basically just a fragfest with different loadouts). So if people can enjoy those games casually when they require far more composition effort than LB at a base level, there is no excuse for LB to not switch over to such a free model.
Lock people out of competitive unless they have a certain amount sure... But casual players wouldn't really be worse off if using the Quake Champions rental model.
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I mean SMITE has been going strong for 3+ years. At this point BossKey should use a "whats to lose" approach lol.