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Steam News2 May 20224y ago

Switching to Free To Play

Hi everyone, as you can see by the title Shootball Arena is going to become free in May. I'll try to briefly explain the reason why we had to take this decision.

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changedOur initial idea was to enter early access at a very cheap price, put in more content until the official release and so in the meantime increasing the price step by step: that's what we did at first. But sometimes you have to deal with unconfortable numbers and after analysing some data refering to our first month in early access it turns out that something is not working at all: Shootball Arena is an hybrid game that make it complicated to define a target audience and furthermore all similar games are free on Steam ( and other stores ) with a lot more content ( they are on the market for a while now ); for this reason, even if the game is absolutely worth the price, we have no choice but to comply with the market.
changedUnfortunately some of you have already bought the game and while on the one hand we are really proud on the other hand we are very sorry of that: Steam policy allows you to get a refund and there is nothing we can do but apologize and thank you ( at least the price was very cheap :).

Shootball Arena changes

changedOur initial idea was to enter early access at a very cheap price, put in more content until the official release and so in the meantime increasing the price step by step: that's what we did at first. But sometimes you have to deal with unconfortable numbers and after analysing some data refering to our first month in early access it turns out that something is not working at all: Shootball Arena is an hybrid game that make it complicated to define a target audience and furthermore all similar games are free on Steam ( and other stores ) with a lot more content ( they are on the market for a while now ); for this reason, even if the game is absolutely worth the price, we have no choice but to comply with the market.
changedUnfortunately some of you have already bought the game and while on the one hand we are really proud on the other hand we are very sorry of that: Steam policy allows you to get a refund and there is nothing we can do but apologize and thank you ( at least the price was very cheap :).

Hi everyone,

as you can see by the title Shootball Arena is going to become free in May. I'll try to briefly explain the reason why we had to take this decision.

Our initial idea was to enter early access at a very cheap price, put in more content until the official release and so in the meantime increasing the price step by step: that's what we did at first. But sometimes you have to deal with unconfortable numbers and after analysing some data refering to our first month in early access it turns out that something is not working at all: Shootball Arena is an hybrid game that make it complicated to define a target audience and furthermore all similar games are free on Steam ( and other stores ) with a lot more content ( they are on the market for a while now ); for this reason, even if the game is absolutely worth the price, we have no choice but to comply with the market.

Unfortunately some of you have already bought the game and while on the one hand we are really proud on the other hand we are very sorry of that: Steam policy allows you to get a refund and there is nothing we can do but apologize and thank you ( at least the price was very cheap :).

The Shootball Arena team.

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Steam News / 2 May 2022

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