Talk:Free-to-play
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[edit] "Free-to-play"
You can use the term "free-to-play", sure, but is it actually used professionally? I'd call software that is "free-to-play" freeware. And "Some of these games have both a free version and a Pay-to-play version that offers the full version of the game and all of the updates" sounds like shareware to me. And even if "free-to-play" is valid as a term of its own, an article isn't needed to tell the reader what can already be concluded from the name. There are currently 7 articles linking to free-to-play (excluding talk pages).
– Andreas Blixt ☺ 21:47, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
- freeware implies everything is free. In F2P games it is only playing that is free, but there are always a lot of features that can be bought only with real money. Shinhan 09:35, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
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- This term is extremely common, actually, and there are quite a few games which use it. Advertisements were recently run for the game Warhawk which used the term to mean that the online portion of the game did not require a subscription (I believe games such as SOCOM on the Playstation 2 required a subscription to play online). Many MMOs, particularly ones out of Korea and China, use free-to-play business models (most are so-called micro-transaction models, meaning that players use real money to buy virtual game items). Many articles could link to this, but do not because the games are not well-known. Nonetheless, the page needs cleanup. --Anon 121.209.160.15 (talk) 13:32, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Wait, its 3 catergories, f2p dosent inculde b2p.
F2p = Free to play as in runescape, flyff, legend of ares. TOTALLY free to play and download. B2p = Buy to play as in guildwars and most gun games like cs, you buy it then your good no monthly stuff. P2p = Pay to play in which games that are montly payed like WoW , EQ and stuff.
I someone should edit this article in this way so it makes sense. B2p and f2p arnt the same thing =P. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.205.55.209 (talk) 22:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
