Masthead Studios announced today that starting August 5th, it will be slashing the price of Earthrise and its subscription fees by 60%. This brings down the price tag of Earthrise from $29.99 to $14.00 for non-Euro players and from €29.99 to €12.00 for our European readers.
Earthrise subscriptions will also be reduced with a one month subscription costing $14/€12 and a six month costing $50/€46, which turns out to be around $8.33/€7.66 per month.
This is the second major slash in price since Earthrise launched earlier this year when in May it slashed the games purchase cost by 40%.
Earthrise, just go Free2Play already, you know you’re heading that way anyway. Saving players a couple of bucks on the game and subscription fees isn’t going turn this around for you, just take Global Agenda for example. They kept dropping prices for a year before finally going F2P and look at them now. Registrations skyrocketed, they increased their player base by a factor of 5x and are earning a lot more money then they did with subscriptions.
Free2Play isn’t a dirty word anymore. Hold out your arms and feel the warm embrace of F2P.
“Hold out your arms and feel the warm embrace of F2P.”
Haha, you just put a smile on my face this early morning today :D
And nice that you mentioned the pricing for european players, too. I was in Earthrise beta, but don’t like subscription based games in the end…
Why they just sell the game and let people play for free like Guild Wars.
July 28th, 2011 at 1:30 amQuote
After i paid 50€ for the RIFT i have become much more cautious…
The Guild Wars concept is fair and works!
July 28th, 2011 at 6:18 amQuote
I’ve been trying out more and more F2P games lately. theres so many good ones now that I can’t see paying a game that requires a subscription anymore
July 28th, 2011 at 9:34 amQuote