free-to-play

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

free-to-play (not comparable)

1. (video games) That can be played without payment.

Antonyms

• pay-to-play
• buy-to-play

See also

• freemium
• pay-to-win

Noun

free-to-play (plural free-to-plays)

1. (rare) A free-to-play video game.
   • 2009 June, Lynxara [pseudonym; Alicia Ashby], Vivek Varadarajan, “Free Realms”, in Hardcore Gamer Magazine, volume 5, number 1, [Redmond, Wash.]: DoubleJump Publishing, →ISSN, page 12:

     HGM’s writers have spent time in the grindiest of grindy Korean and Japanese free-to-plays, but Free Realms is something new and different and better.

   • 2013 March, Jason VandenBerghe, “Design of the Times”, in Game Developer Magazine, volume 20, number 03, San Francisco, Calif.: UBM LLC, →ISSN, page 081, column 2:

     Hit the Flash games, the demos, and the free-to-plays until you start to get your head wrapped around why people like them.

   • 2017, Gregory Scott Katsoulis, “Influent™: $19.99”, in All Rights Reserved, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin TEEN, →ISBN, page 150:

     She was often up late, playing her futile Free-to-Plays.