Steam's latest hit FPS is a good argument for leaving free-to-play behind.
shooters. And yet here is BattleBit, charging $15 for admission and making more money on Steam than Call of Duty.foregoing a free-to-play model, but I reckon its $15 price tag is actually a huge part of the appeal—or more accurately, that your dollars get you a game that already has tons of stuff in it with no extra monetary strings attached. There's no battle pass, no cosmetic store , and crucially, a deep well of stuff to unlock purely by playing the game.
Not that free-to-play doesn't have its advantages—it's remarkable how many good games are available for anyone to install and enjoy these days for free. Accessibility gets us in the door, and then battle passes push us to put our money where our mouse is. But the longer I've played games like Warzone, Valorant, Overwatch 2, or Apex Legends, the more their constant nagging about battle pass buy-ins and overpriced skin bundles has made me feel like a player second and a target first.
Multiplayer FPS fans with the same service-game malaise may find BattleBit to be the perfect palette cleanser. It also helps that it's very fun. The blocky characters and low-detail environments do not prepare you for how well-tuned and balanced it is. It's also surprisingly intense for a shooter lacking graphic violence or overwhelming audio, which you can mostly chalk up to the impromptu roleplay that robust proximity chat inspires—most of your teammates will talk to you when you talk to them, and if they're really getting into it, they'll yell for medics with genuine conviction or belt out a rousing speech before rushing into gunfire.
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