We reworked our Indie MMORPG’s monetization with a one-time purchase. What do you think?

Hello everybody! This week our Indie MMORPG, Eterspire, had certainly one of its largest updates ever with a Christmas occasion, festive cosmetics, and new most important story content material.

Our most important city received a makeover for the Christmas Occasion

The most important new function, nevertheless, was the launch of Eterspire Infinite, a one-time buy account improve bundle that offers gamers a protracted checklist of gameplay options and advantages for all times

The 2 tiers of Eterspire Infinite. The primary applies to 1 character whereas "Deluxe" is account vast.

Amongst different perks, Infinite provides you a number of further stock and financial institution house, batch crafting, limitless talent reset tickets, extra character slots, a shared stash between characters, and entry to a brand new hub map with a conveniently positioned financial institution, blacksmith, crafting desk, and store.

Heroes Corridor Tavern, a brand new Infinite-only hub stuffed with helpful NPCs and enjoyable easter eggs!

We’ve been engaged on an overhaul of our sport’s monetization for fairly a while, and we’ve thought-about a number of options to this mannequin, together with a paid subscription.
We felt, nevertheless, {that a} month-to-month price wouldn’t match our sport’s viewers and {that a} one-time buy could be a significantly better deal for dedicated gamers in the long term

We all know there are many alternative ways to monetize an MMORPG. What’s your most popular one? Do you favor paying for a month-to-month subscription? New expansions? A free sport with microtransactions?

Tell us what you suppose!