OPINION: Free-to-play games are, as the name suggests, free to play.
There's no initial purchase price, you just sign up, download the game and away you go.
While this sounds fantastic on paper, the question arises - how do these companies make money? It's this monetisation of free-to-play games, and this is slowly sucking the soul out of the gaming industry.
The most common form of monetisation in free-to-play games are so-called micro-transactions.
These are things like one off purchases of
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