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Mario Kart Tour will be free to start (It's free to play)
- Thread starter Mega Man Zero
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So the same as Mario Run? Some free content then payment for the full thing in app? Interesting considering the relative lack of monetary success they saw with Mario Run, but hey, if their main purpose is improving IP recognition to drive consumers to Switch its probably a good call
No it's probably f2p. Nintendo also says fire emblem heroes and AC Pocket Camp are "free to start"
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I was trying to remember what games were free to start lol.
I think this follows the same monetisation model as FEH and ACPC. Not Super Mario Run.
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I think the first time they used it was with Rusty's Real Deal Baseball. So, something like that, I guess.
It's Free to Play. Free to start was a denomination made by Iwata because he thought that F2P name is concealment, while Free to start represents better the fact that you will(probably) spend some money in the game.
Reminder
http://time.com/3747342/nintendo-ceo-satoru-iwata/
Nintendo called all their mobile games free to start ever since
http://time.com/3747342/nintendo-ceo-satoru-iwata/
Nintendo called all their mobile games free to start ever since
What's wrong with "shareware" term? That used to have a meaning equivalent to free-to-start. Or is it too old school?
Aside from not being able to actually share the game, I think shareware games were a bit more generous with the amount of free content. :P
It's not self-evident. It contains "share", so is it something that's freely shared? When I was a kid I thought it meant "paid" or something like that as opposed to "freeware" (I didn't speak english).
"Free-to-play" is also not self-evident, but it's entered common talk and got its own meaning like "DLC". "Free-to-start" is self-evident but only used by Nintendo.
I hope the game is shit and they milk everyone and make tons of money from terrible microtransactions. It's what everyone deserves.
Lol. They're never going to do that again. Even Mario Run has a gacha template for future sequels in form of remix 10.
Nintendo has been really slow on mobile. C'mon Ninty, where's my Kirby, Metroid, Zelda, XenoBlade, WarioWare and Rithym Heaven mobile?
I laughed so many casuals will play this trying to be the hottest, I hope we still get Mario Kart 9.
Yeah, DeNA explicitly called Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing "Free To Start".
I consider free to start a far better term than free to play for the majority of free games. Anything with an energy system, that kind of thing, eventually you will have to pay if you want to keep playing in that session. Free to play, in my mind, implies less restrictions on gameplay.
Fuel will be the stamina.
We'll probably have a gacha car parts system too.
I think there was one thread about it and it never showed up again. I didn't see it until after it was mentioned either.
Why do you consider that disingenuous? I can go start playing Animal Crossing on my phone right now without paying any money. That is literally as "free to start" as you can get.
I'd see it similar to that Sonic Forces runners game where after each race you get experience for a random character, with maybe an option to set a favourite so that character has a slightly higher chance to show up as the random character that gets experience at the end.
So I'm guessing you get the trimmed down Download Play package like in Mario Kart 7, where you cant pick your character or kart, and you probably only get 1 track.
If you like that, you can pay $10 or whatever the price is, and unlock the full thing.
If it's good I'll pay. If not, I won't. Just like any other game.
If you like that, you can pay $10 or whatever the price is, and unlock the full thing.
If it's good I'll pay. If not, I won't. Just like any other game.
No. You can't pay to unlock. It will have in-app purchases like FEH and AC.
Free to start seems to imply there will be fees in order to continue, like Super Mario Run. Free to play means you get the game, but it has microtransactions, like Animal Crossing.
It's because it was announced during the financial results briefing. Or rather, since they had to talk about it during the briefing, they had to make a quick announcement about it at the same time so that it wouldn't be weird.
So it might have been drowned in the other Nintendo news coming from the briefing (sales reports etc.).
If their intention is to advertise their brands and sell their hardware so you play the games exclusive to it for FAR more than the price of the app then it's working perfectly.
Mario Kart Tour has been announced 1 week ago.
The market angrily rejected that model. Not gonna happen.
