I believe a generous free trial paired with a subscription model is currently the best way to go about MMO monetization when it comes to ethics and financial viability.
I take monthly cost over aggressive fomo advertisements of dumber and dumber immersion breaking skins and performance hogging flashy effects any day. Even worse if there is also pay to win. Most of those mtx monetization models prey on wales who fall for this type of addiction easily.
I dont like subscription model, it always get me anxious if I don’t play the game, I prefer the guild wars way, release a constant influx of expacs and cosmetics, but I agree that they have some odd skins (I particularly like) that does not work in every game style
Doesn’t FFXIV have a cash store with fomo flashy and performance hogging items in addition to the sub though? And with paid expansions? Seems like the ship has sailed on that one
Also, kinda hard to say what would even be immersion breaking in that game - they have canon 2B outfits and nier raids, modern RL clothing next to boss gimp suits, and nobody bats an eye lol
I believe a generous free trial paired with a subscription model is currently the best way to go about MMO monetization when it comes to ethics and financial viability.
I take monthly cost over aggressive fomo advertisements of dumber and dumber immersion breaking skins and performance hogging flashy effects any day. Even worse if there is also pay to win. Most of those mtx monetization models prey on wales who fall for this type of addiction easily.
I dont like subscription model, it always get me anxious if I don’t play the game, I prefer the guild wars way, release a constant influx of expacs and cosmetics, but I agree that they have some odd skins (I particularly like) that does not work in every game style
Doesn’t FFXIV have a cash store with fomo flashy and performance hogging items in addition to the sub though? And with paid expansions? Seems like the ship has sailed on that one
Also, kinda hard to say what would even be immersion breaking in that game - they have canon 2B outfits and nier raids, modern RL clothing next to boss gimp suits, and nobody bats an eye lol