Billed as one of the flagship games of the PS5 launch, Destruction AllStars did not really conquer the public, too quickly tired of the formula. The title had also been talked about a lot when it was launched, with a price displayed at 80 euros deemed far too high, which quickly fell to 20 euros in the face of the discontent of the community. And a year later, it could even be that the title makes the big leap towards the free-to-play model.
Change of economic model in sight?
At least that’s what traces in the game’s database, spotted by Reddit users (then relayed by VGC), suggest. The game recently got a pretty massive 3.0.1 update.e, where Lucid Games promised many changes that “ will change the way everyone plays “.
During the maintenance period necessary for this update, smart guys went to dig into the game code to find the mentions “BS_F2P_CHALLENGE_SLAM_FWD” and “BS_F2P_CHALLENGE_PERFORM_A_GOLD_SKILL”. The mention “F2P” can then strongly suggest “free-to-play”, since it is the common abbreviation of the term.
Lucid Games has yet to confirm the business model change at this time, and it could all be a happy coincidence, but given the lack of enthusiasm around the game, a switch to free-to-play could only do him good.