Treasure seekers
This weekend sees the third anniversary of Nintendo’s incredibly successful mobile battlerFire Emblem Heroes. As part of a FeH Channel broadcast celebrating the event, the publisher raised eyebrows with the announcement of an incoming paid-monthly subscription pass.
Locking these latter abilities behind a paywall, (along with the overall public disdain toward paid subscription services in general), has some fans upset at the new scheme. While comments have been turned off on theFeH Channel’sYouTube video,Fire Emblem Heroes’players have been quick to make their voices heard in thealigning Twitter post.
It was recently revealed thatNintendo has made over $656 million USDfrom the free-to-play title since its launch back in 2017, over 60% of all of its mobile revenue. Capitilising on this incredible success by looking for more monthly moolah seems somewhat unnecessary, especially at the cost of upsetting some of your audience. But that’s big business in any market: It’s never about makinggoodmoney, its about makingallthe money.
Fire Emblem Heroesis available now on iOS and Android devices.
