Free to Play Weekend
Hurbivore7453
Join Date: 2012-12-11 Member: 174825Members
Join Date: 2012-12-11 Member: 174825Members
Well if you can see from the title, I would suggest Unknown Worlds to have a free to play weekend on Steam. The reason for this is because Natural Selection 2 has a lot of potential, but does not have a big enough audience. Reasons why there should be a free to play weekend:
1.Not everybody has heard of this game
2. Some people do not wish to pay without trying first
3. Servers in Asia are slowly dying out due to lack of members
I believe that if there was to be a free to play weekend it will increase the number of people that know this game. More people are likely to purchase the game, therefore increasing amount of players playing, because at the moment most servers are empty (e.g Singapore servers). There could even be some discount on the game during the F2P period, so people are more likely to buy the game. I think that pretty much sums up why there should be a F2P weekend, if you agree with me, please tell me in the posts. Thank You!
1.Not everybody has heard of this game
2. Some people do not wish to pay without trying first
3. Servers in Asia are slowly dying out due to lack of members
I believe that if there was to be a free to play weekend it will increase the number of people that know this game. More people are likely to purchase the game, therefore increasing amount of players playing, because at the moment most servers are empty (e.g Singapore servers). There could even be some discount on the game during the F2P period, so people are more likely to buy the game. I think that pretty much sums up why there should be a F2P weekend, if you agree with me, please tell me in the posts. Thank You!
Comments
This. Maybe if they get all the bugs ironed out by Christmas, we may see it hit the Steam seasonal sales, but I wouldn't bet on it.
I've only just gotten over the influx of newbies who joined at Halloween. I don't think I could handle all that effort and aggro again yet.
...you do know that SMNC is a F2P game right? And SMNC failed because of its VERY punishing gameplay and general unfriendly nature concerning new players. Just not the type of game you can pick up and rely on your DM skills to succeed. It doesn't help that a fully endorsed pro already has a huge advantage over a default one.
NS2 is a bit more forgiving in that regard, but free weekends won't accomplish much unless you think 2-3 days of getting stomped is enough to get a feel for the game. A free weekend as advertising while implementing a permanent 1-map demo similar to ETQW in conjunction to at least a 50% sale is the best solution in my opinion . Obviously wait until performance doesn't, for the lack of a better word, suck so people don't think this is an unpolished piece of crap.
I personally would not have bought NS2 if my buddy wasn't so gung-ho about it, and I would have a very unfavorable impression of the game if tried on a free weekend. Though hey that's just me.
Sooo the game is good enough for release, just not good enough for people to see before their money is in our pocket... ?
The people who are playing it now enjoy it despite its minor flaws, and understand they will be fixed eventually. Those who hesitate to buy the game are those who might lose interest if they encounter bugs. The game needs to be in the best condition possible to present itself to those groups. In addition, the game has just recently been released. Doing a free weekend shortly after release could make the game look like not enough people are playing it, and not many people want to buy a dying game.
Doing a free weekend after the content patch next year sounds like a great idea. The game will have a lot of new stuff to introduce to people, so the edge veterans will have over new players will be lessened due to both learning new content. It will also be at a time where an influx of new players would be welcomed to support the costs of more development, without looking like grubbing for new players to save their game. Furthermore it will show new players that what they are buying is not completed package: they will be getting something with a continuous flow of improvement.
A very good point. I am sure whenever UWE decides to do a free weekend Hugh will be reminding everyone to help out the new players and make sure everyone has a good time, and all of us veterans will be eager to do just that.
A free play weekend would be good mainly because of certain youtubers doing videos about it recently and people then being able to try might push them the last bit over into wanting the game.