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'Just make a very good game': Sloclap dismisses the idea that online games need to be free-to-play (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 week ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] missingno@fedia.io 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are so many multiplayer games competiting for players' attention today. The biggest risk associated with a multiplayer game is the lack of a playerbase. F2P is the obvious way to mitigate that risk. Of course it's not impossible for premium titles to succeed, but it will be very difficult to overcome players who might look at it and think "I'm not sure if anyone else is going to spend $30 on this, and if they don't then I won't either."

By the looks of this game, I'm skeptical that it has enough of a hook to succeed. The market for sports games is dominated by licensed titles, can they really hope to compete with FIFA?

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

To be pedantic, FIFA as a game doesn't exist anymore so they'd have no trouble competing against it :D

It's now called EA Sports FC