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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by johnnyanmac on Monday October 09, 2023 @10:36PM (#37827967)
>st change things willy nilly. If Baldur's Gate 3 had been a microtransaction-funded F2P game, it would have been a flop

Hot take, but I think it would have been fine financially. Would the online consumers and even media drag it through the mud? Definitely. But I reckon console gamers have less than a 10% chance in correctly predicting some f2p model would crash and burn.

Now I can't say if it'd be more profitable than selling as premium, because it didn't target mobile and that is the real market for that monetization. But I doubt it would have crashed.

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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by qwytw on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:18AM (#37829045)
It would've had to have been an extremely different game though. F2P P2W shovelware games are designed as such from the ground up. You can't just add micro-transactions to a normal (especially story driven) game and hope to make significant amounts of money.
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