{"id":905938,"date":"2025-12-25T06:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/the-first-descendant-and-zenless-zone-zero-highlight-f2p-games-problems"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:35:10","slug":"from-the-first-descendant-to-zenless-zone-zero-this-summer-were-drowning-in-f2p-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/from-the-first-descendant-to-zenless-zone-zero-this-summer-were-drowning-in-f2p-slop\/","title":{"rendered":"From The First Descendant to Zenless Zone Zero, this summer we&#8217;re drowning in F2P slop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/from-the-first-descendant-to-zenless-zone-zero-this-summer-were-drowning-in-f2p-slop.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/why-are-all-the-games-dying-the-thursday-nite-rant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The live-service bubble has been bursting for a while<\/a>. That much is clear. But with how long most triple-A (and even double-AA) video games take to make nowadays and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-shows-how-shareholder-culture-is-killing-aaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how absurdly huge the possible wins are<\/a>, it comes as no surprise it&#8217;s taking a bit of time to partially retreat from a model that&#8217;s grown increasingly risky in the last three years or so. This summer, a handful of free-to-play titles such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/the-first-descendant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The First Descendant<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/zenless-zone-zero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zenless Zone Zero<\/a> are making a splash, but we&#8217;re still looking at the same big issue.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been looking for a while like most players give live-service models and shiny MTX shenanigans a proper beating when they&#8217;re attached to premium releases, yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/best-free-to-play-games\">free-to-play<\/a> games are either happily consumed or simply ignored because we&#8217;ve grown accustomed to them. At the end of the day, however, you&#8217;re more likely to spend money repeatedly on a product that&#8217;s given you so many hours of well-produced entertainment at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>This has been proven time and again, and it&#8217;s one of the reasons why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/overwatch\">Overwatch<\/a> was sacrificed in favor of a more esports-friendly and streamlined &#8216;sequel&#8217; that&#8217;s ultimately alienated most of the player base the IP originally conjured up. That switcheroo didn&#8217;t really pay off for Blizzard and Activision, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/overwatch-2-blizzard-reportedly-plans-to-scrap-pve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as the title&#8217;s recent developments have confirmed<\/a>, but games that are F2P from the get-go get away with the same progression\/unlock models all the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/the-first-descendant-and-zenless-zone-zero-highlight-f2p-games-problems\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/the-first-descendant-and-zenless-zone-zero-highlight-f2p-games-problems\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The live-service bubble has been bursting for a while. That much is clear. But with how long most triple-A (and even double-AA) video games take to make nowadays and how absurdly huge the possible wins are, it comes as no surprise it&#8217;s taking a bit of time to partially retreat from a model that&#8217;s grown increasingly risky in the last three years or so. This summer, a handful of free-to-play titles such as The First Descendant and Zenless Zone Zero are making a splash, but we&#8217;re still looking at the same big issue. It&#8217;s been looking for a while like most players give live-service models and shiny MTX shenanigans a proper beating when they&#8217;re attached to premium releases, yet free-to-play games are either happily consumed&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/from-the-first-descendant-to-zenless-zone-zero-this-summer-were-drowning-in-f2p-slop\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[259,157,277,8859,2746,79,773,8903,160,8239,159,11221,1844,6837,135,490,32,8711,11736,1434,5209,424,59,8766,45,34,53,86,54,2731,516,8505,3987,3841,11222,7445,2732],"class_list":["post-905938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action-adventure","tag-android","tag-anime","tag-cognosphere","tag-exploration","tag-fantasy","tag-first-person","tag-free-2-play","tag-free-to-play","tag-hoyoverse","tag-ios","tag-kuro-game-studio","tag-lucasfilm-games","tag-mihoyo-limited","tag-mmo","tag-moba","tag-modern-day","tag-multiplayer-competitive","tag-naturalmotion","tag-netease","tag-nexon","tag-open-world","tag-pc","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-ps5","tag-rpg","tag-science-fiction","tag-shooter","tag-single-player","tag-star-wars-hunters","tag-strategy","tag-the-first-descendant","tag-third-person","tag-windows-phone","tag-wuthering-waves","tag-zenless-zone-zero","tag-zynga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>From The First Descendant to Zenless Zone Zero, this summer we&#039;re drowning in F2P slop | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The live-service bubble has been bursting for a while. 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