I would look into how Final Fantasy does free to play. They can party up, but they can’t be in a guild. They can’t trade or use the market board and get limited inventory. They can only do the first few expansions for free. It’s a great trial period with no playtime restrictions. I think it would be very beneficial to have something like this to hook into. I think that’s exactly what you’re describing with the free to play area!

Hiya, Shampuu! I found out about this 2 years ago on Lemmy. I applied for the free beta and got in around January 2025. I then convinced all my friends to join in May when the Patreon members getting access immediately was added. I then started my first side project since college working on an optimizer. I’ve met so many great people through this game’s community. Everyone is so positive. Thank you for creating this game and fostering its community. I can’t wait to see what this game becomes, but I’m in it for the long haul!

Here’s my optimizer if anyone wants to check it out! I added trading and even federate with the other main web based optimizer so that no one loses out on potential trades! https://walkscape.flamesandvoltiply.com/

I’m on IP torrents. It’s 2 weeks or 1:1 health. And you get points just for seeding. I have my client auto delete after 3 weeks. And I can just zap stuff I don’t want with points. It’s so low management when I’m downloading stuff that’s newly releasing. I hardly ever login to the site anymore with my *arr setup.

So glad Washington state was the first state to ban AI “Surveillance Pricing” at Grocery Stores. Hopefully it expands to dynamic pricing and for all business soon.