I worded it wrong: you do not have to pay extra for new content that gets added with patches (no need to unlock stuff with money).
In HLL there are cosmetics for soldiers you can buy, to support the developers.
Post Scriptum has a support edition where you can choose to pay more to support the devs.
And I just saw, PS ist at 28€ now, that is a one-time purchase!
To me it is crazy to bring now after premium, which is not a one time purchase, after bringing premium squads that are ridiculously expensive (you can buy AAA games for that money!), after having ingame gold for micro-transaction another form of monetization. I do belief that if “full access” would become a success that they would most likely get rid of gold and premium. Which does not sound to bad. But uhm, I still think it is a “bad” deal compared to other games. I mean 30 bucks per campaign, the first campaign using a shit-ton of reused stuff? Maybe that is why it is so cheap, Pacific Theater costs maybe 50 bucks? While there is no plans to bring “full-access” to other campaigns right now, it is a possibility. So 5 campaigns each 30$ = 150$ and they likely add more campaigns.
Sure there are collectors like you Shiivex that have probably already spent what? Maybe 500-1000$ and everyone who likes to can do this. But yeah with the new “full-access” it feels more of an “Want to play the new campaign, buy it”. That is a big change to me, from being generous making people to play the game and if they get attached, if they really like it, they are able to support it, to you have to pay for it!
Before Enlisted I haven’t spend money for a game for … I don’t even really remember, 10-20 years ago? I had played Heroes and Generals, War Thunder, World of Tanks, Crossout, Contract Wars, Call of Duty Warzone, Team Fortress 2 and Ring of Elysium. Probably more but forgot them. All these games I played for free, I invested zero money in it.
And tbh, I will very likely not financially support Enlisted any longer if they stick to “full-access”. Because they lock players out of content, not just cosmetics, but maps, gameplay and new features. This time it doesn’t feel optional. To me premium with its 2x XP and the battle pass was already a huge advantage over f2p. But in Stalingrad, f2p players have to compete against paying players that get 4-8 times the XP. And get every weapon and troops they unlock nearly maxed out. Why should anyone free to play (or someone like me who has a year of premium and the elite battle pass) play with such a huge disadvantage?
And I belief, this will drive away players, f2p players, but also people that had recently bought gold, premium, elite battle pass and other ingame stuff. On discord I have meet quite some people that are absolutely not okay with this.
I mean the game isn’t even that popular, that is my main problem (as a youtuber) but I fear that it will make the game even more unpopular. I hoped the next content patch brings in more new players, brings back f2p players that had left and makes them stay. But tbh with this change I think it will be the opposite! More people will leave, new players might come back because they didn’t read patch notes, dev blog. Join a couple of matches to try out the new stuff (Stalingrad) and will get roflstomped because in every match they join there is at least a couple of players that are totally maxed out. They rage quit and uninstall the game.
And just to clarify, I worry for the future of the game, because if there is not enough players, it gets boring for the remaining players. It is not like “omg how dare you you suck to ask for money like that bla bla bla” no that is not what I am about. I do totally understand that someone has to pay for the f2p players, because if everyone was f2p the game would be aborted by the devs.