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.
After i paid 50€ for the RIFT i have become much more cautious…
The Guild Wars concept is fair and works!
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