Trion Announces Free-To-Play Option For Atlas Reactor
If you thought $20 was a bit much for Trion Worlds' upcoming game Atlas Reactor, then you might want to take a peek at this. Today, the company announced that it would be offering a free-to-play option in addition to the pay model.
This new option allows everyone to play the game for free as much as they like, even earning reward caches containing cosmetics (but you'll be limited in how often you can open them). Of course, as you probably expect, there are limitations -- particularly in the area of Freelancers. Rather than having access to all of the Freelancers all the time, players will be able to play a rotating selection. The other things that paying players will have access to that free will not are custom matches and future tournaments.
For more information on Trion's plans for the game, you can check out the Producer's Letter.
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to the 200 player stat in here, ive never used steam to launch the game nor does most of the people I know who play it so I hope you aren't counting on that.
the game is fun. there is plenty of goals to reach and play for. its quick, fun, and surprisingly works well. for a battle arena game the community is very friendly for the most part even when new players are obvious from their poor choices.
I know people like to beat up Trion, but this one isn't really deserving of it. they obviously saw a huge interest from players during their free events and why not cash in on it. its adds more players to the game, more money in their account, and the only downside is some haters attempting to use quotes against them.
When the game went B2P, a lot of players were concerned about player numbers ($20 is a huge investment just to check it out), and Trion answred with many free weeks and week-ends.
I think this F2P mode is the best way for bothe. Free players can check out the game and have fun with limited Freelancers, and if they do like it a lot and wanna get competitive, they'll buy it.
Regardless, it will boost player numbers, so this is a good think for the community.
I don't think many buyers will be pissed, cause basically they bought full access to all features.
come on, we all knew this would happen... I mean........... COME ON! :P
remember that interview?
"it became apparent to us that if we gave access to all the freelancers, it would improve a ton of aspects of Atlas Reactor"
"PJ: Nope. The primary reason for the switch was because we thought that all players having all Freelancers was healthier for the game overall"
"SH: We don’t see it as a niche"
what happened? didn't improve a ton of aspects of the game or it turns out it IS a niche game? xD
-_-
This isn't even a joke anymore, things stopped being funny years ago. What they do isn't just a standard greedy corporate foolery, it's like they're intentionally trying to fail at everything.