Harmony, the PS5 and PC shooter from PlayStation’s personal Firewalk Studios, will observe the Helldivers 2 blueprint of monetisation. That’s to say, it will value you $40 / £35 upfront, after which it will try to persuade gamers to cough up more money for cosmetics. Nearly everybody was anticipating this to be the case, however we have now bought affirmation from the developer itself.
“There are purely beauty items you could select to additional customise the look of your character, you could select to buy. These don’t have an effect on gameplay. We imagine so strongly that the complete expertise needs to be obtainable to all of our gamers,” director of IP Kim Kreines instructed VGC.
In flip, the mannequin ought to enable Firewalk Studios to help Harmony long-term. Kreines reveals that “new maps, new modes, and new characters” shall be added over time, together with additions to the sport’s “unfolding story”.
Now, clearly, this sort of monetisation has labored tremendously nicely for the aforementioned Helldivers 2 — however that is additionally an extremely standard launch. Neither recreation is free-to-play — so the businesses concerned are creating wealth proper off the bat — however everyone knows what occurs when a reside service title struggles to keep up a wholesome variety of gamers.