Board Thread:Weekly discussions/@comment-33872406-20180504110915/@comment-24275721-20180505142427

BonkyChoiSE wrote: TheGollddMAN wrote: Han0303 wrote: New to games in general... I've been playing them since I was 7, so... yeah, I guess? Is a freemium a free premium? How old are you now if you've been playing games since 7? And to answer your question, freemium here refers to how they made most of the games behind a paywal. The game is free but a lot of the content is locked behind a paywall meaning you cannot get many plants if you don't pay up which the first game never did (thus my original post of people criticisng it since its inception). Essentially, it's a premium game disguised as a free game (or vice versa). Another popular synonym used is "free to play" which is also used to describe these types  of hybrid games. In "Free to Play" games, you can get everything without paying a single Euro and the pays are completely optional and won't make an impact if you paid for that (in other words, in Multiplayer games a paid user won't have an advantage against a free user). An example of this is Heroes and PvZ2C. PvZ2 is a "Free to Start" game, where you don't pay for the game but you will if you want everything. Yeah no, even in some games like PvZ 2, they are still classified as F2P but you cannot get everything as those items are still labelled as "optional". You don't need them to progress. There are subclasses of F2P games and PvZ 2 falls under such a one which is why I called it a hybrid game. Most publishers and developers now label their games as F2P and still have content for money only and also call them as "optional purchases". Nothing is absolute anymore, these games are mostly a mix of these terms.

"Free to start" is a not a term anyone uses. PvZ 2 is a free to play game first and then premium walled later as most content is still optional to your experience. Many F2P games also give players bonus perks on paid content that affect them in both single player and multiplayer and are still classified as F2P on the notion that you don't need to pay money to play that game but if you do, it will benefit you. That term you mentioned technically does not exist.