Free to play almost always means you get a small portion of the experience and you basically have to pay a subscription fee for the full experience in microtransactions. Meanwhile the other one is a full game that normally costs money but is free for some sort of promotion.
Good chance that the free to play game is poor quality or contains huge amounts of in-game monetization that disrupt gameplay where a 100% discount means a premium game you are getting for free.
Free to play reminds me of The Sims 4. Where you can play the base game for free but you have to pay $1000+ for a complete gaming experience EA is a sham fr
To be fair, most free to play games are either priced like that for a reason, or filled with ads or micro transactions. But a 100% discount on a $25 or more game? Now that's a steal!
Marketing is a king , showing us huge reduction from 29.99 to only 9.99 when in fact it's value is still 80% less will make you want to buy it and quickly
That’s because free to play games are usually pretty bad but you’ll have a some good ones. While the ones that where sold at first then become free over time are ones that usually had a lot of work put into them and the only reason it’s free is because it’s been a long time since it was released.
Precisely. Free for a limited period means it's probably actually free. Free to play means freemium. In other words, a mobile game on a non-mobike platform. Who wants that?
Unless you're Warframe. All's forgiven if you're Warframe.
I once found a game called House Flipper in 100% discount and I got it IMMEDIATELY.
I don't even think my computer can handle it but at least I have it
It used to be a big difference once you play... but since corporations started releasing full price titles with pay2win in-game shops and gambling/loot boxes like free to play games used to finance themselves it doesn't really matter anymore.
Quality at release date like how bug-free it is can also not be determined by price/studio anymore
@Jade-Hammer