The most free of the conditionally pay. Games that will not pull money out of you
We live in the era of conditionally paid games. A huge assortment of online and even single projects calls and beckons: try, free! But it is worth getting to get involved – the beautiful picture quickly breaks against the concrete wall of the donates. Behind the bright sign Free-to-Play hides a luxurious in-game store and a landwall that can slow down or completely block progress. What can we say about lutboxes and gacheniki-a real lottery, in which, in order to obtain the desired prey, you sometimes need to spend more money than a dozen AAA-IGR?
However, in any rule there are exceptions. We decided to choose parole-free projects that relate to the player respectfully: they really can play entirely for free, and cash injections only simplify the user some tasks or open access to jewelry.
Fortnite: Battle Royale
One of the most famous and popular online royal battles was not least due to its accessibility. Fortnite: Battle Royale In a matter of days I overshadowed my "older sister" PUBG , which continues to be a premium game.
Pay Epic Games only those who cannot do without a unique parachute, a rare suit and other cosmetics, including emotions. However, there is also a military pass: it is sold for V-Baxs, but, making your way along its levels, you can “earn” the next pass, at the same time collecting a bunch of other unique junk.
Other games also operate on the similar system: for example, Paladins And Pubg Lite. For real money, you can buy all kinds of cosmetics in them. And the combat pass is available in different versions: you can start earn levels for free, but if you fork out for a premium transplant, then life will become easier.
Apex Legends
In the royal battle Apex Legends Three types of currency at once, but only APEX coins can be bought for real money. And they are spent on unlocking unique legends and on a combat pass – ordinary or “reinforced”, with already counted levels and an additional bonus. Legends, however, can be redeemed for the in -game currency – "legendary tokens".
The rest of the APEX Legends store can be attributed to cosmetics: weapons, skins, replicas and banners for characters, special animations and emotions. All this is good in addition to falls from Lutboxes, and a unique and rare subject may find in them. Here are just the chances of getting something extraordinary from there so low that the players envy the Belgians: due to the ban on lootboxes in the country, instead of lottery boxes, they immediately receive materials to create legends and cosmetics.
The formula “Cosmetics, combat pass, Lutboxes” adopted a number of other conditionally paying projects. IN Dota 2 You can additionally pay for the Dota Plus subscription and get a personal adviser to heroes and abilities based on the matches played. IN Dauntless you can speed up the pumping by paying real money. And in Valorant Skins are insanely expensive, but buying their favorite agents allows you to not depend on rotation. Like in League of Legends or Smite , There, heroes are also bought once and for all.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
CS: GO – An ideal example of a free game in which from Donat exclusively cosmetics. Namely, the notorious skins for weapons: for the price of some of them you can update the computer. There is only one problem: in order to get something truly valuable, you will have to shove hundreds and thousands of chests that are not always in vain, but are always available in the form of packs in the store. Individual players manage to make good money on sale and resale of such rare skins, while the rest of these problems are little concerned: Chiters and stupid Timmates are much more relevant!
You can find a number of conditionally deposited games in which this convention is limited to the sale of cosmetic objects. For example, Brawlhalla , Teamfight Tactics or Call of Duty Warzone – In the latter, however, in addition to cosmetics, you can buy temporary booster.
Blade and Soul
Classic large -scale Mmorpg is not the best period now. They gradually leave the big scene, without withstanding competition with dynamic, often updated sessions, royal battles and funny brawls in the spirit Fall Guys. Russian servers have been closed for a long time " The Lord of the Rings ", Not so long ago forgot how to speak Russian Tera , A difficult fate fell Black Desert. Only “greedy sharks” remain afloat: in World of Warcraft Without subscription, they will not be allowed Giant Wins sister sites further, for The Elder Scrolls you need to buy the game itself and additions, and the same applies Guild Wars 2. And in Final Fantasy XIV the possibilities of a free game are expanding everything, but sooner or later you still have to pay.
Against the general background stands out only Blade and Soul, although its monetization cannot be called the most gentle. You can play BNS for free if you do not rush anywhere and enjoy the process. But at the same time, the gaming store scares the abundance of goods affecting the balance, up to the creation of the hero at once the 60th level. There are, however, two reasons to talk about the game as a free. Firstly, everything except the services for renaming and changing the race can be obtained in the game: even if you have to spend on this time, it is more reasonable than buying expensive sets. Secondly, premium valus is also earned in the game, so there is an opportunity to accumulate on some particularly rare trophy.
Team Fortress 2
Monetization Team Fortress 2 It became a legend even before she switched to conditionally deposited rails: the game was nicknamed the “Simulator of the Hat with Schuer Elements” in 2009, and in 2011, with the output Über update , She also became a "simulator of the sale of hats". Decorative accessories, most of which are still hats, remain the main sign of the shooter, although in the game store you can buy both weapons and boosters.
It is enough to make one purchase in the Mann Ko store in order to once and for all transfer your account into the status of "premium". After that, all restrictions on drawings, gifts, objects, craft and the size of the backpack are removed.
The same system, by the way, is used in The Lord of the Rings Online : Any purchase transfers an account to the category of premium. This increases the limit of gold, allows you to use mail, and also unlocks two more slots for characters on the server.
Warframe
Online shooter ** Warframe ** Hurrently meet the players calls: “Buy, otherwise you will regret!". The gaming store sparkles platinum chests, unique sets, luxurious weapons, prime-winning and incredibly powerful frarams … But this is an illusion.
Absolutely all the contents of the store can be obtained in other ways: exchange from another player, knock out, get as a gift, buy by accumulating the same platinum … There is nothing in the gaming store that would be unique and affordable only for real. And during the regular adjustments of the balance, “Donatical” frames suffer no less than ordinary and unpretentious. In the battles, the outcome at all does not depend on the money invested: all wealth received in the store must also be able to dispose of.
A characteristic case: once the developers added the opportunity to randomly change the color of the pets-kubrau to the game for a small amount. This option was very popular, but when the team saw that individual players pay for it hundreds of times in a row, everyone was horrified: “We created one -armed bandit!". The idea had to be removed.
In Warframe it makes sense to pay for additional slots for frames, and in Path of Exile The expansion of inventory justifies itself in a similar way. True, in the last game, in addition to cosmetics, there is another serious bait for donators: the ability to create private servers.
Starcraft 2
Starcraft 2 is already ten years old
When we are talking about e -sports titles, it goes without saying that no store purchases should affect the game balance. AND Starcraft 2 – A typical model of this approach. The game itself is free, you have to pay only for additional plot campaigns: Heart of the Swarm , Legacy of the Void And " Nova: An invisible war ". However, for multiplayer battles, including rating, there is quite enough set of free cards. Yes, in Starcraft 2 there is also paid cosmetics (special skins for units, flags and portraits), but the guaranteed winning will not provide this from this.
The system with the purchase of additional fragments of the plot is easily recognized by users The Lord of the Rings Online. The initial locations, quests and dungeons are completely free there, and all the tasks of the epic are open – the global plot campaign. For the game currency, you can "redeem" both locations entirely and individual raids, dungeons, and even quests in them. And money for unlocking can be obtained directly in the game – for achievements.
Let it die
IN Let it die The basis of the gameplay is the development of the characters: each new floor of the tower is more difficult than the previous one, and it is not easy to resurrect the deceased hero and not cheap. This process can be significantly accelerated and facilitated if you buy it for your blood local gold … it would seem.
In fact, the abundance of gold in the early stages does not carry special benefit. Yes, you can redeem rare recipes – but they will not be able to use them until a certain floor is reached, and the materials on them will still have to be assembled. And the ability to easily reanimate any hero will not allow to pump a strategic skill: the ability to decide which of the characters to allow to die (the name Let it die speaks of its importance).
There are other ways to spend money in the game with benefit. For example, a golden pass allows you to rise free of charge on any floor, the “express transplant” cancels the forced expectation of the opening of the doors in the subway, and the duodenal stickers increase the amount of experience produced gold and “blue”. But active players already do not have a shortage of gold, and they can get much more powerful stickers.
Magic: The Gathering Arena
The computer version of the most famous table repeats its basic principles not only in the field of the formation of the decks: the gathering of like -minded people in their favorite store, the start of sales of new sets and friendly tournaments tried to reproduce in the video game. And this connection can be seen if you carefully look at the assortment of a gaming store MTG Arena.
Play Magic: The Gathering Arena can be free as in life: I came to a special event, received a starting set of decks as a gift. I wanted more – you can buy game gold or crystals. Crystals are paid, in particular, for participation in tournaments, and here everything is also like in life: the organizers often take from the participants a small entrance fee to expenses and prizes.
The company of like -minded people will always meet a beginner not only with advice, but also gifts. And in MTG Arena, if the newcomer manages to find a good company, promotional codes will immediately share with it: there are many universal codes that any player can introduce, having received booster, styles, shirts and even additional experience as a gift.
And one cannot help but recall another free computer hill: " Guint ". Everything that is sold in a gaming store is barrels, random cards sets. But even an excellent deck does not guarantee that the player who spent money on it will win all matches: here is much more important mind and skill.
Phantasy Star Online 2
From time to time, the developers produce special temporary screw cards with thematic goods
Recently published in Europe Phantasy Star Online 2 quickly gaining popularity, including due to its free. Yes, she got into the list of the most non -fire games in some way, since a long -term test of time has not yet passed. But in the game it is interesting that it is like a selection of all the most popular solutions at once in terms of microtransactions.
In the store you can buy Lutboxes (Scretch Cart) with all kinds of cosmetics, and the premium subscription allows you to expand the inventory and quest magazine. In addition, there is also a combat pass, and all that falls out of the Lutboxes allow other players to sell. Subscribers can also trade at an auction and use their own apartment. And players can exchange items only if both spent at least some amount in the gaming store.
By the way, in Phantasy Star Online 2 there is also a casino – but in it you can use only the in -game currency: it will not work to tear the bank for real rubles.
This brief list of a list of friendly games for economical games, of course, is not exhausted. But the listed techniques of soft leaving money are used in many modern online games, and in most of them there is no victory. But the pleasure is easily.
Tell us what game you yourself would praise for unobtrusive and courteous extortion!
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