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Origins Of Malu: Both F2P & Subscription to Be Added
SBFord
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The Origins of Malu site has been updated with the news that both subscriptions and free to play options will be offered to players. The subscription amount has yet to be determined but, in an interesting twist, any F2P player purchasing something from the item mall will also be given a limited amount of subscription time as a bonus.
F2P - Free to play if you wish
Limited life's per day (Number not determined yet), you will be able to purchase life's if you run out.
Perma-Death possible if you play beyond your allotted life's if you dare..
Possible Ad's (on first loading screen only)
No content restrictions at all
Micro-transaction's of any kind will grant you a sub for a time period pending the amount of the purchaseSubscription - Prefer traditional here ya go
Low monthly fee (Not yet determined, but it will be small)
Micro-transaction bonus, you will get a little more for your bang
Special bonus's to make life a little easier such more frequent use of utility items.Contents of Store - Not Complete
Housing Pieces
Vanity gear items only
Life's - for F2P
Vanity Pets
MerchandiseWe will put more detail out soon concerning this, but we wanted to clear up a couple of items here.
Cheers,
OOM
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I think its a smart move and probably the system we will see most success at in the future.
-So long as a sub covers everything (no ca$h $hop exclusives even on vanity items) and F2P players can piece-meal their experience with their wallet- I think its fantastic.
omg p2w whaaa /poop and stuff
I wonder if they'll tell us which one makes more money.
You really ned to ask?
F2P is too expensive for my tastes which is why I prefer to sub. =P
lol, people griping about death not mattering can just not sub =P
This is kind of cool if they live up to the "no content restrictions" part and don't turn it into a free trial/sub. Of course, you're probably going to want to sub if you play a lot, but if you get bored with the game, you aren't actually going to uninstall it.
It'll be like gw2 in that sense where you have the option to just log in periodically to check things out and not feel like you need to play as much as possible to get your money's worth. Your mains aren't going to be locked because they're max-level or anything. And, from a dev standpoint, they'll be able to put on special events to draw people back in and renew their sub.
This whole conversation is getting weird ... Just plain weird
yeah it sounds like a very fair model to me.... so far.
I agree with you on the subscription thing. Thats a huge problem with all the freemium mmos out there. If you are paying a subscription you should have all the cash shop stuff in game as part of your sub. If you decide to go F2P then you use the cash shop. An easy way to set it up is to keep all the cash shop stuff in the cash shop regardless of what model you choose but if you subscribe then the cash shop stuff dont show any prices for you unless you cancel the sub.
If I want a world in which people can purchase success and power with cash, I'll play Real Life. Keep Virtual Worlds Virtual!
but that's not what they're doing here. It says in the sub portion...cash shop bonus, you get a little extra from the cash shop. That probably means you get a discount.
3-4 days into the campaign and it's only at $745/60.000?
These updates really don't matter since no one is hardly backing the project anyway.
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"Limited life's per day (Number not determined yet), you will be able to purchase life's if you run out."
.... played probably more than enough world's sh*ttiest Asian f2p grinders in my time, but definitely none of those were this low especially when the p2p scheme involves this too >>>
"Micro-transaction bonus, you will get a little more for your bang"
just because of the perma death I'd take it as a challange
high stakes, makes the game interesting
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From what the Devs have said now and over the years, they originally wanted full sub game from my understanding but lets face it, a game without F2P is destined to fail or go F2P within a year. And while most fully F2P games force you to use the shop, so they devs can keep their lights on, others force you to subscribe.
That being said, in regards to your quote above, I don't think this is the case what-so-ever. I believe it is them 'forcing' people to subscribe to the game. Afterall, when you purchase anything in the shop, you get a small amount of Sub time; They are teasing you
They want you to sub. Is that crazy for a developer to want the players to pay for the product? A couple years ago no, now it does seem crazy, and that my friends is truly what is crazy. If you like a game and want to continue playing it (to its fullest), PAY FOR IT!!!
Maybe I led a sheltered life as a kid, but did people complain all the time about demo discs? "Ugh, they are like FORCING me to buy the actual game, that's so wrong!" Sounds silly doesn't it?
If I want a world in which people can purchase success and power with cash, I'll play Real Life. Keep Virtual Worlds Virtual!
Yea, it wasn't that long ago that subscriptions were par for the course in MMOs. Not sure I think the movement toward cash shops and F2P is healthy for the genre.