• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Wow, most of them were even older than I’d thought. And even some of the new ones like Tarkov were in Early Access for years before their official release date.

    (You flipped the date and country for 16 and 17, btw) Already fixed, never mind!

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        1 month 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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          1 month 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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            1 month 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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              1 month 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.