Foamstars was released back in February to something of a lukewarm reception, and a lot of that was centered around the game boasting a price tag. In a world driven by free-to-play games, a title like Foamstars costing real money was an issue with gamers everywhere, but Square Enix has rectified that misstep.
From now on, Foamstars is officially free to play on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The previous price tag has been obliterated in the hope of bringing thousands of players onto the platform.
The Way to Go
If you’re an old-school gamer, you might not appreciate this trend, but it’s the way the world works. Almost every single game at the top of the charts is free to play and reliant on microtransactions to succeed. From League of Legends to Fortnite, from Warzone to Rocket League, and from PUBG to Counter-Strike, some of the most popular games in the world have adopted this model.
In 2022, PUBG went free to play and broke concurrent player records on Steam. In 2020, Rocket League went free to play and the game became more successful than ever. In the Call of Duty world, free shooters like COD Warzone and COD Mobile garnered hundreds of millions of downloads.
Foamstars is the latest title to go free to play, and that’s certainly not a bad thing. It hasn’t done too well since being released in February 2024, and typically, a free-to-play pivot is an effortless way to boost a game’s audience, even if for a short time.
Square Enix has published Diamond Jam alongside the free-to-play transition, offering players another season packed with new maps, boss battles, and exclusive events. When players enter the fray for the first time, they’ll be doing so hand-in-hand with a fair injection of content that’s being aligned with a premium season pass.
Admittedly, Square Enix is pivoting to do the live service thing the right way – the premium season pass for Foamstars is only $5.99, which isn’t too bad at all.
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This won’t boost sales just show Kingdom Hearts 4 already
Pass! This is not the way. Nintendo needs to buy Square Enix.
Square you want money then show Kingdom Hearts 4 already!
Where is Kingdom Hearts 4? No one wanted Foamstars this was a bad investment always was. Remake Union Cross and Dark Road and make Verum Rex.
Fire whoever makes decisions at Square Enix they made bad ones for the last 5 years. Kingdom Hearts should be getting more attention and games not this crap. Give No urea the resources to end it instead of wasting time on garbage like 7 Rebirth, 16, Strangers In Paradise, Foamstars, Babylons Fall, Life Is Strange, and Forespoken no one wanted these games only boomer shills are defending that trash.
Why is this games servers still live?
Where is Kingdom Hearts? They showed 4 gameplay in 2022 with promises for a follow up in 2023 that never happened and they still have shown nothing and haven’t confirmed a release date. Missing Link was set for a beta in 2022 that got delayed to 2023 then 2024 and now it’s late 2024 it too has also not been released with no update. Even worse Union X and Dark Road got delisted with no explanation. Where is Kingdom Hearts? They updated on Final Fantasy 7’s sequel even though the game just came out this year but nothing on Kingdom Hearts even worse Final Fantasy 7 and 16 both flopped so why waste money on that? Shareholders and consumers have a right to know what is going on over at Square Enix where is Kingdom Hearts and why wasn’t it at Tokyo Game Show 2024? Even worse Geoff Keighly the shill nepo baby had to further piss off the fanbase as he usually does. Where are these games? Invest more into Kingdom Hearts the Steam ports were top sellers give Nomura the backing to wrap up the series remake Union X and Dark Road and make Verum Rex. It’s shocking how out of touch Square is the longer you wait the worse it will be and don’t let the same idiots who helped Kingdom Hearts 3 be give feedback. Same with the idiot Final Fantasy boomer shills keep them away tell Nomura just do him like he did before I hope with the BBS staff helping it improves the story since 358/2 and BBS are the best games in the series story wise.
Who is playing this? Square wonders why they have financial troubles with decisions like this. Just invest into Kingdom Hearts you’d actually make money that way. Bring Sleeping Dogs back pay Saber to remake it, bring back the people who made the first game to make a sequel and monetize Triad Wars easy money. Make Verus XII and Verum Rex watch them make money unlike current Final Fantasy. Remake Chrono Trigger with Dragon Quest XI style gameplay and cutscenes.
How is this still alive!!? I’m confused I thought Square wanted to make money no one played this why is it still existing. I’m very concerned where is Kingdom Hearts 4 and Missing Link? Last I heard Dragon Quest 12 had development problems and the director left, and where are Final Fantasy 9 and Tactics remake why not announce them now? How bad are things at Square Enix? It feels like they’re hiding something similar to Ubisoft.