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>> if a giant production like The Witcher 3 can profit this way, any card game can. In theory yes, but in practice a CCG needs to be updated a lot and for year
by georgeecollins 7y ago
>> if a giant production like The Witcher 3 can profit this way, any card game can.
In theory yes, but in practice a CCG needs to be updated a lot and for years to be viable, while a game like Witcher doesn't. Would you pay $60 for the CCG game where you can't add new cards? Charging as you go seems to fit the model of player activity and developer activity.
- larrik 7y agoYou can charge for expansions directly, though. Just pay and get all the new cards.
- aranelsurion 7y agoThere are many other online & well-updated games though, there's an entire genre of them: MMORPGs, yet they came up with quite sensible/much less predatory business models, at least compared to CCGs. Some have buy2play with bi-yearly expansions & cosmetic shops, some have subscription-based models, and others, mostly asian fp2 ones have a more a la carte approach, yet even those would pale in comparison to CCG greed. Those games get entire new gameplay modes, quests, worlds added via updates, yet they can manage. I see no reason why a CCG can't.