Board Thread:Weekly discussions/@comment-33872406-20180504110915/@comment-32557788-20180505135351

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.