No it’s not P2W in this case. A skin won’t give you a competitive edge, it just makes you look different.
“Best way to monetize a game without being too Pay2Win or greedy?”
What part of being greedy in the title you don’t understand? (I’m using your title logic previously) Selling cosmetics is also part of being “greedy” instead of giving it for free.
Making money from games isn’t inherently “greedy”. However, it’s greedy if you constantly shove gamepasses and dev products to the players’ face
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You do realize, we can do the same with the skin right? a.k.a limited time skins with a popup that shove such skins in their face.
Yep, that’s greedy but NOT pay2win. OP doesn’t want to be either of those. That’s why they need help.
I rest my point then. I’ll leave this comment section and if someone else reports you to delete your post, that’s not me.
I prefer your comment be out there with mines since it already showed inconsistency in your logic.
Also, I didn’t address this properly.
“No it’s not P2W in this case”
Still is. You still need to pay to earn that skin. The only difference is that “win” is now “get”.
It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t give competitive edge. The point being is that you still need to pay it to earn it.
I think taking the Arsenal approach would be way better in this case: Sometimes there are some skins that are bought with robux or in-game currency or both.
I don’t really think cosmetics are greedy since the developer still has spent time making that cosmetic for the player (unless it’s just random accessories and bundle from the catalog, which then yes it does seem greedy)
Why do you care so much about these things, look around you, look at the frontpage, it’s full of p2w games with a big ccu.
Developers over here purposefully handicapping their players to make each and every gamepass they sell more appealing and valuable and you stress out on ways to not make a “greedy” game lol
It’s because these games are way too common. I don’t want to make kids steal their parent’s credit card just to buy some “HUGE MEGA PET RAINBOW” gamepass or get bullied by people who have nothing better to do than to spend thousands just to have a quick laugh
Being too common is a big problem since people just see most games as cash-grabs and get uninterested.
Besides, not screwing the community over is much better than shoving a gamepass every 5 minutes into the player’s face.
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I’m in the mentality of:
It’s a f2p game + devex rates are trash + Inflation + you need to spend robux to make the game if you hire for commissions or % cut fees + you need to spend an enormous amount of robux for ads otherwise the game will never take off + the better the payer conversion rate and average robux spent per paying user the better chances of going in the algorithm.
If it was a game for steam you would’ve gotten bashed and boycotted like crazy, but we are on roblox, i think these type of monetization on roblox are a must do