A Perspective On Free To Play

Space Bum·3/20/2015, 4:26:50 PM·2 votes·291 views

VS WoW's original pricing, without including IP

Game= $60 > Approximately 19 on Sale Champions Subscription = $15 > Approximately 4 on Sale Champions

1 year (first month free) > Approximately 63 Champions

9 Comments

Nybx4life3/20/2015, 4:48:41 PM1 votes

Changing payment methodologies now, especially from f2p to subscription-based, would cut a lot of players. WoW is fine to try that, because Blizzard had fans before WoW (from its Diablo/Warcraft days, I believe), and that helped it establish.

If Riot tried that from the start, it might not have worked. Didn't have the rep to do so. Plus, for people to pay out the gate for champions, then pay more for new champions, would get people a bit irritated. Just saying.

DeloricVI3/20/2015, 7:35:47 PM1 votes

I love this perspective... especially because we could also probably do a similar comparison to games like Clash of Clans or inexcusable pieces of trash like Dungeon Keeper Mobile where the money grubbing is plentiful, lol.