2013's Top Free-to-Play Games [Jan 20, 2014, 10:39 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
SuperData Research offers their accounting of the worldwide top 10 grossing
free-to-play games for all of 2013 (thanks
GameSpot). Perhaps surprisingly, the top earner
on their list came pretty close to $1 billion in revenue. Here's what they
report:
- Crossfire, $957 million
- League of Legends, $624 million
- Dungeon Fighter Online $426 million
- World of Tanks, $372 million
- Maplestory, $326 million
- Lineage I, $257 million
- World of Warcraft, $213 million
- Star Wars: The Old Republic, $139 million
- Team Fortress 2, $139 million
- Counter-Strike Online, $121 million
HorrorScope wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 13:47:Jerykk wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 12:28:
You don't have to pay for new characters. You can buy them using the in-game currency which you get every time you play a match. And if you play LoL on a regular basis, you'll always have enough in-game currency to buy new characters.
The only part of LoL that could qualify as P2W are the XP boosters. Your runes, masteries and summoner spells are all locked behind levels so a level 1 player has an inherent disadvantage against a level 30 player (though the matchmaking would never put them in the same match). You also have to pay for more rune pages, which is stupid.
Right most FTP's PTW or not have ways to get items through playing but obviously a lot of people are buying a lot of things, including things you could earn from free. See my 22 year old, at least a couple years back, put many hundreds getting the new toons as they came out. Looking for an edge anywhere.
That actually doesn't work because when you play a completely new champion, you will be shit for the first dozen games or so. Quite a few newly released champions were actually considered underpowered, until people managed to figure out how to use them.
Having a large champion pool can be advantageous, but that is only significant in the highest of ranked ladder matches. For everyone else who don't play LoL 10 hours a day, you'll do much better focusing on playing a small handful of champions, which is easily unlocked without spending any real money. Playing a few decent characters well produces much better results than spending a ton of money chasing whatever champion is popular the current patch.
Also, even the XP boosters Jerykk mentioned don't give you any real advantages. They make you gain levels faster, but then you'll end up matched against higher level and better opponents.
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