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Game has pay-to-win MTX, gamers get angry and demand costmetics-only MTX. Game goes with cosmetics-only MTX, gamers get angry. Uh okhttps://twitter.com/Multicolourmodo/status/1220392867522383873 …

Here's an idea: If you want to make a free to play game, sell it until you make enough to pay for the development, then make it f2p with donations. Want to add content? Do the same with DLC. I see where people would get mad paying for a game that eventually becomes f2p, but...

1/ Here's an idea: Game companies aren't charities, and they still need to be able to pay their staff while making the next title. The idea of cutting off a revenue source - because that's what relying on donations is - as soon as the break-even point is met is ludicrous.

2/ At the end of the day, while there are successful indie titles developed on a shoe-string, the broader market demands games with ever-increasing scope, which means ever-increasing development costs.

3/ Shareholders demanding ever-increasing profits are not blameless either, but unless gamers are prepared to start paying two hundred bucks for a title, they need to stop blaming companies for doing what they can to pay their staff.

4/ Two out of the three titles you mentioned in your follow-up are published or developed by Valve, a company which has more money than God thanks to taking a cut of sales on Steam. Sorry to break it to you but most companies don't have that option.

I have that option. I could do it right now if my game was anywhere near production. And I'm one person. It's pretty damn simple to release a product under one price and promise a reduction in price after a goal is met. Making excuses for greedy capitalists is never a good look.