interesting I was surprised to see Aion had >2 million subs and is still going F2P. I wonder how many it requires to maintain a game like that.
Very interesting data, thanks for linking it
MMO player
WoW: 2006-2020 || EvE: 2013-2020 // 2023- || FFXIV: 2020- || Lost Ark: 2022-
Actually, the graph of Total Active Subscriptions is very interesting, since it shows that the total MMO market is not only not growing, but also slightly declining. Consequently, one cannot do miracles on subs numbers anymore
MMO player
WoW: 2006-2020 || EvE: 2013-2020 // 2023- || FFXIV: 2020- || Lost Ark: 2022-
You just have to look at TF2 to see how F2P can work well and not affect the game in a negative way (buying weapons which arent available for free in game etc).. also the community can make, and if picked sell their items in the store. After 1 year community made items made their creators over $2m which just goes to show how popular this new system is becoming. Obviously alot of developers still have terrible F2P models but with more and more games being annouced as F2P we can already see how big the market is getting.