Comments on: How do free-to-play games make money? https://www.isegoria.net/2013/07/how-do-free-to-play-games-make-money/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:05:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Red https://www.isegoria.net/2013/07/how-do-free-to-play-games-make-money/comment-page-1/#comment-909545 Red Wed, 24 Jul 2013 02:51:04 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=32277#comment-909545 There’s an alternative to the F2P and monthly model of payments. Eve online has a system where for the price of a 1 month subscription you buy 30 days worth of game in a in game item and then sell that item to other players in game. It’s called the PLEX system and about 1/5 of the game accounts are funded by plex. The people buying the plex are either newer players or players who don’t want to spend the time farming the games PvE content to earn money. The people selling the plex either play a great deal or have well established sources of income that allows them to play for free.

PLEXs can even be transported by ship and are often stolen or destroyed by other players on the way to market.

Eve has created a system to allow people to get a bit ahead or remove boredom that’s not fundamentally exploitative.

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