• tal@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    I should totally put release date on there too. Just a sec, will add on a column with that.

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      7 hours ago

      Wow, most of them were even older than I’d thought. And even some of the new ones like Tarkov were in Early Access for years before their official release date.

      (You flipped the date and country for 16 and 17, btw) Already fixed, never mind!

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          7 hours ago

          One minor correction, I believe The Sims 4 went F2P at some point. They’re funded entirely by expansion packs now.

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            7 hours ago

            Yeah, I thought about changing it, but…the problem is that while the base game is playable now for $0, the overwhelming bulk of the game’s content is in expansion packs. Like, I don’t think that people really buy and play just the base game; it’d be more like a demo.

            EDIT: A similar game might be DCS. I mean, yes, technically the base game is free, and you get (checks) a WW2 fighter and a Soviet ground-attack jet. But…basically that acts as a demo, and everyone is going to go out and get at least their favorite aircraft, and most of those aircraft cost about as much as a full-priced video game does. Hell, a couple of them are $80 each.

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              7 hours ago

              That’s fair. Though, by that logic would you consider something like that one Final Fantasy MMO F2P or not? I believe it lets you play all the old content for free and only charges for the last (few?) expansions.