As someone who has worked in F2P games: you're quite wrong that cosmetics are "easy to monetize". Good god, it's HARD. Because the only way it works, at a scal

As someone who has worked in F2P games: you're quite wrong that cosmetics are "easy to monetize". Good god, it's HARD. Because the only way it works, at a scale that can support a studio, is if people really, really love the game. Even something that can capture attention for dozens of hours may not be good enough. As a gamer, you're looking at something like Rocket League and going "oh yeah, it's so easy! They just make a skin and it sells!" But, uh, no. It's the 0.001% elite of all games. And they only have an "easy" time selling cosmetics in the sense that they already did the much harder work of making something amazing. Kinda like it's easy for Google to make money from ads; you need the killer product first.