Cost of all Mogstation Items

[HyoMinPark]

I seriously doubt most players would spend more than $20 per year on a Free to Play game, it must be just a few in their players base throwing cash at them!...

Oh, my sweet summer child...

[Aster_E]

Oh, my sweet summer child...

I know, right?

[Annoynymoose]

I seriously doubt most players would spend more than $20 per year on a Free to Play game

TERA Online would like to say hi. Don't even get me started with the Gacha-like loot boxes there >_>;

[Cincierta]

TERA Online would like to say hi. Don't even get me started with the Gacha-like loot boxes there >_>;

Don't forget their alks and spellbinds being in the cash shop last I checked, which are necessary for everyone. I also heard they were merging their servers due to population loss, but I'm currently too lazy to look right now.

Edit: holy jeebus I probably should not have done the math on all the mogstation items. God, what have I started?

[Ilan]

I seriously doubt most players would spend more than $20 per year on a Free to Play game, it must be just a few in their players base throwing cash at them!...


$2.6K is insane and I don't think there's a single player willing to pay that much for everything!...

There are enough players in f2p games that spend way over 100€ a month. Why do you think are most mmorpg's f2p?

[Camiie]

I seriously doubt most players would spend more than $20 per year on a Free to Play game,

If that were the case there wouldn't be any F2P games.

[alimdia]

If that were the case there wouldn't be any F2P games.

I think $20 is an overstatement, but it's been said for years that for F2P games most of the revenue comes from a smaller portion of the playerbase. Even if only 29% of your players spend money, as long as they spend enough you make way more than the basic operating cost. Then there's the 1% made of whales, the ones that go into the thousands per year and are worth several regular customers. Another thing is that the whole point of microtransactions in F2P games is to keep enticing that remaining hypothetical 70% with small purchases (that added up end up being not so small)

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I seriously doubt most players would spend more than $20 per year on a Free to Play game, it must be just a few in their players base throwing cash at them!...


$2.6K is insane and I don't think there's a single player willing to pay that much for everything!...

I know someone who spent $8,000 in roughly two years on a F2P play. And someone on the BDO forums bragged about spending several thousands, claiming P2W is a fair option for people who just "don't have time to play". Speaking of BDO, a single outfit will cost you at least $30 USD. And that game releases virtually all its high quality glamour options on the cash shop. In fact, I don't believe they have added anything to the base attire in five years. You want to look pretty? You're buying it. Housing? Almost everything is on the cash shop.

Regardless, to give you a perspective on just how insanely profitable micro-transactions are, Activision Blizzard made four billion dollars through micro-transactions alone just last year. 50% of that came from console and PC games. This means they made more money from add-ons than most games themselves generate combined.

[Noodle_Trinidad]

I didn't even bat an eye, mostly because that amount seems more or less what people spend in f2p games on an annual basis

Yeah thats not an issue if you consider a F2P game the issue here is this isn't a F2P game at all. It's a game that requires you to buy the base game, the expansions and then pay a monthly fee on top of that.

[Aster_E]

Yeah thats not an issue if you consider a F2P game the issue here is this isn't a F2P game at all. It's a game that requires you to buy the base game, the expansions and then pay a monthly fee on top of that.

And AGAIN not counting additional licenses if you're playing the same account on multiple systems.