Winds of Valen

It is a great game, pretty solid. Small and cozy hich I like. But, they made it into a subscription game, they locked the entire endgame behind continuous monthly payment... I love the mechanics and I'd definitely buy the game if it were for sale, but not rent it for a month... The subscription is not even here in the steam page to show it's price.... It really saddens me to say it, it is such a nice and solid game, but the player base is already tiny as a free to play, I understand devs need to get some return, but is shoving the free players away from the tiny tiny player base the way to go? Again, I'd pay 50, maybe 60 bucks to be able to play the entire content whenever I want, but subscription? I'd probably spend that much and not be able to play it after a couple of months or so... Even the "free zone" have nodes that require payment... If only this members was a early access to resources, it'd still be playable, I might even consider buying a month to help as I can, but a solid wall of continuous payment is a deal braker for me. And again, despite of how much I love the cozyness it is a tiny tiny game, small map, very feww players, small ammount of things to do, as a free game? definitely worth it, fair priced purchase? sure, monthly subscription I don't even know how to pay since it is not even here with a probably hard exchange rate? NOPE, cant recomend this AT ALL..... I'll stick around for a while, I hope this wont entirely deplete the tiny playerbase and that they find a way to make it viable for them AND for players that don't get too much extra money to spend every month a day's worth of minimun wage in a cozy small indie RPG...