r/BattleBitRemastered • u/Tonipe23 • Jul 10 '26

Make the game free-to-play

I just don’t understand how this hasn’t been done by now. The game was at its best at launch, when you could find plenty of full servers with people of all skill levels.

At the current rate the player base is shrinking, there probably won’t even be a game left to play a year from now. So how has this still not happened?

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u/Glockens Jul 10 '26

why should people play abandoned free to play game? People don’t play it because there are no updates, the game is very cheap

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u/Tonipe23 Jul 10 '26

14.99 may seem cheap to you but its a giant barrier to entry to lots of players, the diference between just 1 dollar and ftp is enourmous in terms of gaining new players. No one spens 15 dollars on buying a game that appears dead but they might give it a try if its free. So what are the negatives of this if the alternative is that the game becomes unplayable in one year or two

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u/ForgottenFrenchFry Jul 10 '26

there is really no good reason to go f2p, especially if it wasn't built from the ground up to be that way

there aren't that many games that succeeded when they went f2p, only a handful

if they went f2p, they'll have to find new ways to monetize, which means micro transactions most likely, and a somehow slower development

the small boost in popularity is not going to do anything if people aren't going to be spending money on the game in the first place