Bungie won’t say how much Marathon will cost, but it will be a ‘premium title’
Bungie won’t say how much Marathon will cost, but it will be a ‘premium title’ | VGC
Sounds like EA/Nintendo pricing has taken hold.
Lmao premium? My ass. That doesnt mean anything. BG3 was "premium" because of the soul put into it. Is this game anywhere near that? Does it at least tell me I'm pretty for the "premium" price?
I've spent more time in minecraft and terraria (and skylim, released in 2011, which I last played in 2023) than I have in any other games, and those aren't exactly what I'd call "premium". I'd agree that more than money needs to be poured into a game to make it good.
I'm just glad the minecraft launcher doesn't track time playing. knowing I probably have over a year of playtime is different then actually seeing it.
Does it at least tell me I'm pretty for the "premium" price?
Probably only available for the digital deluxe ultimate limited edition.
Which will also be available a month later as a twenty dollar microtransaction.
40 dollar* they're just adding twenty to everything.
Cassette Beasts just had a free update BTW.
Indie is the way to go moving forward.
I think 'premium' in this case is synonymous with 'not free to play'.
'premium' and not 'full price' can mean anything between .01 USD and 79.98 USD at this point when you've got a major console and publisher reporting bullshit 80 dollar price points.
You give these corporate jackasses a inch and they'll bend you over and I for one don't trust any of these AAA publishers.
My guess is they're looking at Nintendo here and seeing if they push 50 - 55 USD a 'premium', executive bullshit buzzword on par work AAAA gaming, over what is considered normal, 40 USD, now for a live service game.
That would make sense but the descriptor is still not a good one. Admittedly it might be my ancient perspective.
It is not great, I agree but it's how it is used. When you think about it, F2P is pretty standard these days so anything with a price tag could be considered "premium" in comparison
It does, and its not like F2P is inherently bad, it let's a lot of people play who otherwise wouldnt be able to. But the monetization always sucks.
I don't think it's always. It can be done so it doesn't feel too bad I think. But it is extremely rare. And often it does devolve sooner or later. But the point is it can be done.
There's a few examples of F2P games with good monetization. Warframe comes to mind immediately. I've heard Path Of Exile is also a solid example of F2P done right, but don't have personal experience with that one.
Web Fishing comes to mind for me. Idk if it even has monetization besides ads on the web page. It is rather rare though. Warframe was great but when I played leveling each piece of gear was too much for me. So it wasn't even the monetization it was a game mechanic. Phenomenonal gameplay though. I wish it was more about that than leveling.
Fair enough- I find leveling stuff is fine if I either do it passively via either just equipping a weapon I don't intend to use or just specifically focus farming leveling. But Warframe is very firmly not for everyone.
Web Fishing is just outright paid, is it not? The game is $5 on steam.
The steam version. You can just play it in the browser. Its was originally only that. So maybe the steam version is also a form of monetization.
I wish I could get into Warframe more but seeing all that to do just makes me shut down.
TIL. I didn't realize it started in the browser originally.
Warframe can be super overwhelming, though. There's a billion things to do and it's hard to know where to start. I had issues with that when I was getting back into the game awhile back, and I'd already completed a ton of the content. If you actually want tips on how to manage it: set short term goals and long term goals, and just go for those. Shut out anything that isn't relevant and focus on specifically on whatever you decided was your goals. My long term goal, for example, was to complete all the story quests. My short term goals were basically a checklist of things I needed to do to start the next quest lol.
Plus, the game being almost entirely PVE means that in my experience the community is great. If you have questions or need help just ask, and someone will probably be willing to help. There's an excellent Warframe community over on the dormi.zone instance. It's reasonably active and they're helpful over there. Plus Q&A chat is just in the game.