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How important is F2P?
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It depends on what is "important" to you.
If having a high concurrent player count despite of low actual active player count, then f2p may be "very important" to you... although it most likely hurts Jagex's profit margins deeply. Free players farming gp, even if they aren't bots, are normally those who stay online 8 to 16 hours a day or maybe 8 times the average of overall players in the game industry... hence 8 times the concurrent player count and may be 8 times as "important" to those who must see OSRS to have high "playerbase" (in their own thinking).
However, from the perspective of an online business, free players, especially the ones who cost the business money to maintain through various means, like advertising to acquire, anticheating expenses etc actually are the least important.
Is OSRS striving with 100k concurrent players and -7% revenue growth and one of the lowest profit margins in the game industry? Or is OSRS with only 12-15k concurrent players but 20% revenue growth and on par with the game industry in profit margin striving more? I think Jagex has their answer already, although the players may have their own.
If having a high concurrent player count despite of low actual active player count, then f2p may be "very important" to you... although it most likely hurts Jagex's profit margins deeply. Free players farming gp, even if they aren't bots, are normally those who stay online 8 to 16 hours a day or maybe 8 times the average of overall players in the game industry... hence 8 times the concurrent player count and may be 8 times as "important" to those who must see OSRS to have high "playerbase" (in their own thinking).
However, from the perspective of an online business, free players, especially the ones who cost the business money to maintain through various means, like advertising to acquire, anticheating expenses etc actually are the least important.
Is OSRS striving with 100k concurrent players and -7% revenue growth and one of the lowest profit margins in the game industry? Or is OSRS with only 12-15k concurrent players but 20% revenue growth and on par with the game industry in profit margin striving more? I think Jagex has their answer already, although the players may have their own.
04-Jul-2023 04:04:01 - Last edited on 04-Jul-2023 04:17:21 by Dilbert2001
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