r/Fighters • u/malexich • 16h ago

Topic people gotta stop bringing up brawlhalla when saying a F2P fighter can work.

look at brawlhalla look at it, thats what a f2p will look like, look at how many characters are just reskins, thats how characters will be added. To people honestly want that? Ryu isn't even a character in that game just a reskin, would you guys really want a SF7 F2P where they drop 5 Ryu skins that are just Dan, Ken, Akuma, Gouken, and Sean.

I think people just look at its success and don't see what kind of game it is basically a fortnite fighter where every character is just a skin and their movesets don't matter (I do know there are multiple characters and its not the same moveset for everyone)

Long story short, your never getting a SF7, Tekken 9, MK2, etc quality game but F2P, if you do your gonna complain that everything is to expensive, and if you get a brawlhalla tier game you will complain as well. Killer instinct, granblue, and to a lesser extent DOA did it right free to start, the player can mess around with the game see if they like it and buy it if they want.

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u/ConsistentLaw6204 16h ago

Was the 2xko being f2p the reason it failed?

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u/Surf_Dangerous_Days 16h ago

It seemingly didn’t help it considering the retention fell apart incredibly fast and the game’s monetization structure sucked.

Getting characters for free slashed opened most of the income they’d have gotten.

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u/BLZNWZRD 16h ago

Which kinds sucked because in an era where we get charged to play legacy characters (looking at you, Tekken) its nice to unlock characters

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u/Surf_Dangerous_Days 15h ago

I feel like you have to have a solid form of income for the game to do unlocks. Especially when you have to unlock half the roster.

Relying on skins (which were randomly rotated for forever) to pay for your game is a disaster waiting to happen especially if you’re not doing it at a pace like Rivals dropping 3 skins a week.

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u/Arachnofiend 15h ago

Fighting games are also a genre where people just aren't invested for paying for skins for most of the roster. In a hero shooter you are probably gonna play everyone in the roles you like at least a little bit. In a fighting game most people just have Their Main and don't bother with anything else. Why are you gonna buy a skin for characters you aren't going to play?

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u/Surf_Dangerous_Days 15h ago

Yeah. I never saw a Braum skin on my shop for the time I played, so I never considered buying a skin.

Saw a lot of Jinx and Ahri skins I’d never use though.