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Atruejedi:
Bad idea. Bad. I've covered how I believe player-base should be increased and retained in other threads, so I'll skip that here. But basically:

Don't make GOI free-to-play. Free-to-play killed Team Fortress 2 for me and nearly all my friends. "Back in the day," before TF2 was the cash-cow it now is for Valve, I used to hang out on the same servers with the same people all the time. I traveled to visit new gaming friends. We all went to Boston for PAX East. We had costumes. We spent hundreds of hours together screwing around online and in person. It was... glorious. But now, those servers are long-dead because of the influx of F2P newbs and the rise of Valve-controlled servers, and my former TF2 friends from "real life" and online never play anymore. I miss the old days of TF2. A golden era for gaming. RIP TF2 2007-2011.

Don't make me miss the old days of GOI. Don't kill my baby.

Kamoba:
This has been discussed on Dev fireside chat before, and the answer was no, F2P would be an absolute last resort, the current business practices employed have kept this game flying for over three years, there is no genuine need for F2P.

Also F2P would do nothing for player retention, in fact it would simply bring in an over flow of trolls and idiots worse than the ones endured during sales, the ones who play 2 rounds and rage quit when they realise they can't game.

Captain Scrobeard:

--- Quote from: DJ Logicalia on February 18, 2016, 08:35:46 am ---It's been floated before, I think it's a bad idea. I can't think of one free to play game with a quality community, and one of the biggest draws of GoI is how great the community is. The players like it, and the devs do too.  Going F2P would destroy what good the game has, and add little of serious importance

--- End quote ---

agreed 100%

Richard LeMoon:
Going to agree with the no FtP. However, I think there should be a free GOIO lite for people to try out with the option to upgrade (with strong implications of awesome people to play with as well as new ships and guns). Sort of a firewall. I guess you could call it a paywall.

C r o w:
Something that makes that you are put only in novice matches and as soon as any class hits level 8 you have to pay for the full game.

Why level 8?
Because if you get that far to come out of novicehood you must have some interest in the game.

Does it hinder incomes by taking away the money that you get from the people that buy the game only to try it for just a couple of matches?
Unfortunately, yes, and the devs would gladly keep that and every income.

Does it function really as a paywall?
Well, I dare to say yes, as it would restrict the lite-users to only three ships and some pre-made loadouts. Also, making that the characters have only the default aspect could simply be another addition to the lite edition. You could also make so that you could claim your level-up rewards only if you buy the full game.

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I personally find the f2p idea extremely abhorrent. Not only it would demolish Muse's income, but it would also hinder the quality of the GOIO community, that I love as it is.
Free to play games 98 times out of 10 attract the scum of the Internet, especially in those where skill is required, and the communication system is well functioning.
(Exempli gratia: DotA and LoL)
(P.s. Yes, mobas take skill, a noob will always suck if they don't acquire skills)
Also f2ps are the breeding nest of trolls. Yeah, people who like to go full mine launchers are quite the trolls, but they could be also extremely dangerous opponents. Trolls that act dumb on purpose, gunning as engineer while the ship critically needs repairs, damaging guns with Lochnagars without even aiming at an enemy, captaining an extremely useless ship only to purposely piss off their own crew, etc...

To sum up: F2P isn't and probably will never be healthy for the community, if you want to increase the playerbase, then find a way to publicize it.

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