After announcing it as a free-to-play title back in August 2015, Trion Worlds (Rift, Trove) has decided to change their business plan for Atlus Reactor, making it a premium game. Executive producer Peter Ju outlined the reasons in a long blog post, explaining the move was partly as a result of feedback from players after the closed beta of the game. Below, you can read what we had to say:
"During Closed Beta, we've been figuring out how to best tune our Free to Play ('F2P') game to create a sustainable business. To make it viable, we would have had to do some things that run counter to your feedback, making the game less fun."
Atlus Reactor now is therefore sold at three different prices: $30 (currently on sale for $20), $60 and $100, with the higher-priced packages coming with skins bonus, taunts, banners, boosts, and other game-related swag. All three packs include all current and future Freelancers (those being the game's characters), as well as access to the closed beta, an in-game ally, and the Founder's banner and title.
It's interesting that this decision follows a few weeks after the same decision was made by Boss Key Productions for LawBreakers, which also became a premium game after being announced as a free-to-play title.