Destruction AllStarsa game mixing destruction and cars, in which players must compete and explode their opponents, did not receive a demented reception when it was released a year ago. Released as a PS5 exclusive, the game was unsuccessful to maintain a very important playerbase and quickly fell into oblivion. To revive the enthusiasm for the game, Sony would have decided to make it free-to-playa model that has worked miracles for many games, like PUBG, CS: GO or even Rocket League.
It is through leaks on Reddit let us hear this news. A user, named Mr_WeeWoonoticed thata new patch had been deployed on Destruction AllStars. During maintenance, when logging into the game, it was possible to notice certain details strongly reminiscent of a free-to-play game.
During this maintenance hour, if you update and open the game, in-game challenge names were showing as code references rather than the text users are meant to see. As seen here, I noticed that each challenge had the prefix ‘BS_F2P_CHALLENGE‘. Potentially revealing that the game plans to go free-to-play in the near future.
Moving to a free-to-play model has been very popular in recent years with games that can no longer maintain their original playerbase. For Rocket League for example, thehe game has never been as efficient as since its transition to free-to-play, which by the way has brought a lot to Psyonix, not only in terms of number of players but also in money. It is therefore obvious that this strategy is one of the best to apply to Destruction AllStars for Lucid Gamesthe studio behind the game.