F2P games areFrom where I'm from, people work hard for a dollar, Do these people know they are paying to make a free-to-play game? But if it's free to play, it's like what? Genshin, FGO kinda of thing? Do we get a free character when we make an account?
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. Turns out it's easier to convince people to pay small amounts frequently over a year than an equivalent sum as an up front cost, and all you need to do in the interim is churn out some low cost models/animations or whatever to add to a game framework you've already developed.Not sure how they plan on introducing players but it will probably be something like having a few free characters but no access to the "battlepass" which lets you unlock content. Last time I played the closed beta though it was a mess and nothing worked properly so it wasn't really clear what the intent was (I think it's still this way from what I've seen on the Steam forums).
That said those subbing on Patreon certainly didn't know they were paying to make a F2P game and boy oh boy were they pissed when Helius pulled the rug on the single player game he'd be stringing them along with for ~5 years. Now it's 8 years in total since development started and they still have fuck all to show for it. If nothing else it is at least hilarious to watch.