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how would handle charging for cosmetics and other DLC to sustain your company while keeping a player base?

Do the TF2 thing, seems to be working pretty well.

Take a bit of a loss by being generous and fair at first to build up a user base, then hit em with the P2W bullshit after they've already invested their time building up their accounts and getting addicted to the game.

Make it more than just outfits. Do weapon skins, particle effects, gradient colors, etc

But always keep all transactions strictly cosmetic

MapleStory was perhaps the first to do the in-game gacha thing, and they're still the best at being insane about the nickel and dime shit.

There's a pay item you get to make other pay items tradable. Tradable exactly once.

I will always hold a place in my heart for MS, but nowadays that's just listening to the music on youtube.

Wouldn't make it a F2P game.

Would still use cosmetics in a cash shop and probably offer some minor services. Those services would be mostly unnecessary though if you don't mind a $60 USD box price and a $11.99 monthly subscription with some sort of expansion every 1.5-2.5 years as a guarantee of new content developed using the funding earned from said cash shop, box prices, and subs.

Of course if my arm is literally being twisted on this...Make a 40/60 ratio for In-Game unlocks vs Cash Shop unlocks, with only a very small handful of "adventure packs" and a moderate amount of cosmetics being cash shop only. The bulk of the 60% Cash Shop unlocks would naturally be cosmetics.

I would make everything in the cosmetic shop cheap as fuck so you don't mind buying a bunch

Every purchase also gives you a small amount of free credits that you can use to buy anything like you could with cash