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Originally Posted by iamtam
it is what i call the freetard revolution. everyone wants everything for free, and there isnt enough ways to actually pay for it. it isnt a business model, its a waste of efforts.
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Yeah but it isn't, it makes tons of money and in some cases more.
Take this game I played recently called APB (All Points Bulletin). It's basically like Grand Theft Auto 3 style play but with other people on the net. The game is free to play but you have to pay if you want some special mods on guns that you would usually get anyway if you just played long enough. And sure enough half the people I run into in the game have these guns which expire every 10 days! So if they're paying $3 a gun and only getting that one gun it totals out to $9 a month which is pretty comparable to a subscription. But it's pretty easy to forget how fast it adds up and buy one $3 thing on Monday, another one on Thursday and one more on Sunday. I mean it's just $3 but by the end of the month you've paid them $27 which is way more than they would ever charge monthly.
Look at Zynga one of the fastest growing companies EVER that is valued at ~$10 billion, their whole business model is the free to play one.