F2P hurts competition on console…

[Vertigo]

I think Call of Duty is like some sort of sport or something, if you drop NFL Football you may not necessarily pick up CFL Football instead. Even if it's similar in many ways (it's better in fact).

For things to change a better challenger has to come by and CoD needs to mess the expectations of their die hard fans... This almost happened with Battlefield 3\4, then Battlefield dropped the ball and CoD came back on top with a few good releases.

Battlefield 2042 is a good example here. I haven’t played 2042 but it’s doing better than f2p Halo Infinite on Steam peaking at 15k concurrent and that’s pretty much Halo’s assumed avg concurrent across all platforms. So it’s still worth looking at for now.

2042 is strictly a multiplayer game struggling to find an audience while needing purchase to play. Since it’s multiplayer only consumers already have the wrong attitude assuming it should be f2p. Why bother when Warzone and apex are free and have a playerbase. You lose right there. Retail price tag and sub paywall? Easy choice to not spend a dime and stay where the players are.

Whether a game has longevity is a huge part of player investment too. Players are not going to waste time in even an objectively good multiplayer game if there’s no sustained playerbase or content coming. We are not going to play games that are likely to die after a month. It just doesn’t work that way. Having a larger player pool is a huge factor in this.

 

[Gamernyc78]

One game has access to 160 million players, the other to 48 million ps plus subscribers. On top of the $70 price to play the game.

Why should Concord be limited to an audience of ps plus subscribers when a f2p Xdefiant is not?

This is not competition. It’s punishment for any studio who isn’t big enough to risk their house.

Nahhh generally ftp games don't even have a big budget and is off putting so even if they have a pool of hundreds of millions many don't play it or drop it shortly after. COD is the example many ftp clones have tried and all have failed or most. And even with games like Apex flourishing as shooters COD is still eating and selling well.