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I'm honestly surprised to learn they still offer a free tier, I'm not sure why? What advantage is letting users play for free?
Standard tactic since the early 2000s. Provide a service for next to nothing by dumping insane amounts of cash into it. Competition either can't hold up or is straight up bought up. Fast forward 5 years and you're the only real player left. Then you're a monopoly and can set the prices as you see fit. Best example of this is uber, but amazon and youtube have done it too
There's really not any competition in the exact same line of business as them anymore. Amazon's Luna kinda? But not really, you have to buy new copies of games there - or subscribe to them. Other services like moonlight you have to host yourself.
Same reason drug dealers give out samples
why drug dealers? not really known for their samples except in DARE films. I think Costco would be a better example. are they doing that again btw?
Costco stopped samples for like barely a month, at least where I was at.
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