Misucra
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Both Overwatch sold millions and was game of the year in 2016. It had free weekend 6-months after release. 40 million player in the span of two years. For Honor also had free weekends later the same year it was released. It's been six months for MK11 so that's not necessarily a surprise. Not to mention, SFV didn't have free weekends until 2 years later and ended up doing so badly that they had to break and make an updated edition. So free weekend means nothing.
As for as to the free trial being consoles only, that happens with nearly all titles that have free trial weekends. Steam and consoles typically have seperate free trial weekends. Switch never had a free trial as far as I'm aware of.
No. It can mean a lot of things.
First of all different companies have different reasons for doing free weekends. Also different genres have different rules. MKX and Injustice 2 had free weekends due low population. Injustice 2 almost instantly died on PC while MKX was a ghost town thanks to issues. Free weekends were used to boost the numbers. (Numbers jumped back once they fixed online issues and after the failure that Injustice 2 was, people jumped back into MKX)
SFV was a mess as devs (just like DOA6 devs) were jumping from one audience to another. First they tried appeasing the hardcore only and released half baked game, just to make in time for CAPCOM Cup and EVO. That didn't work with casual crowd as there was barely any content. Then they tried to appeal to SJW with censorship and immediately stopped after immense backlash. Then they started using outfits to drag people in. That didn't work as people didn't want to throw cash like crazy. So after everything failed, they decided to do Free weekend.
You know what game didn't have Free weekend? MK9. First game to get free weekend was Injustice 1 (as it came way later on PC and numbers were low af, once again. What a surprise.)
In short. I am just pointing out their rinse and repeat cycle. But again I am just assuming here. I am not spitting facts. But this looks same as before.
Also got banned today from MK Discord for asking about PC.
No curses, and simple polite question about updates for performances issues and free weekend for PC.
My message got removed almost instantly and I was kicked out. So yeah. PC is a taboo word now. You bought PC version? You can eat shit. Thanks for the money, suckas!
P.S MK11 being fighting game of the year.... wow. The standards dropped.