It eventually occurred to me, though, that it wasn’t any different from was SWTOR was asking. I’ll admit, the idea of just paying a sub and having all the things not being held over my head was very refreshing at the time. Some time after that I played FFXIV for a little over a year. Again, I was expecting something to be “free” to play and that’s just not how the world works. I was already frustrated with how pushy SWTOR was so I just cancelled and moved on. It occured to me then, the already reluctant premium member that I would have to bankroll multiple subs to continue and I simply wasn’t willing to do it then. He saw this, wanted it too, and couldn’t understand why he wasn’t allowed to do it. I wanted to use some custom lightsaber crystals so I paid for their premium or whatever. I played it with my oldest child, I think.
I mean, all you’d need to do to unlock those features is buy an expansion right? It works out well for monetization though, because it encourages people to spend money. A lot of this is also designed to curb RMT. I’m aware that this isn’t fully about monetization of a game. Specifically the inability to fully use the in-game market and to send us things he had that we needed. My coworker was busy and had other more important priorities financially and had a rather poor experience as a result. I already owned the base game and my brother acquired it a week or so after we started. My brother and I start playing something, we’re like “hey you should come join us, it’s free to play so you don’t have to buy it” then when he gets there his ability to do normal activities, usually of the economic variety, is severely limited. It’s the presumption that something considered free to play should have basic functions like trading or grouping without the need to spend additional money. Now, following the conversation with my coworker, the one that prefers the sub model, I get it.
One person dislikes everything but the subscription model, which has also been me in the past, and a couple of us are far more open to other business models now than we used to be. There’s a conversation that’s happened a few times in my social group lately regarding MMO business models.
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