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Pay to get access to beta is an option for those who desperately want to get in. It’s a good way to recruit dedicated beta testers. The game is intended to be free to play, so this is of course not a primary revenue source. If they wanted more players right now, they would release more keys or simply invite everybody. It’s as simple as that.
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It’s also a good way to recruit quite a numerous army of dedicated naysayers who will drop the game after spending less than ten hours on it and then proceed to smear shit over it on the Internet. It’s really not simple, certainly not as that.
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That can happen, but generally people are more invested when they buy into something. That can be a big problem for F2P or ad supported mobile games, because it has to impress people instantly or they just drop it right away. If they are invested in it, then it’s more likely that they will take the time to become familiar with it, and perhaps have a bit more patience when things are still a bit rough around the edges during beta, etc.