Where Winds Meet has captured the hearts of millions of gamers across the globe over the past week, with its mixture of fast-paced, challenging boss fights with its zany AI chatbots and murderous geese proving popular enough to keep players invested. Another party of why Where Winds Meet has managed to attract an impressive number of players is down to the fact that it's completely free to play.
We flew to China and spoke to eight developers behind the Chinese Wuxia RPG, Where Winds Meet.
We've seen plenty of free-to-play games find success over the years, but Where Winds Meet is a little different in that it's an MMO. Final Fantasy 14 and World of Warcraft — the two biggest MMOs on the planet right now — manage to get by via paid expansions and subscriptions, but Where Winds Meet is completely free, and that has many wondering how exactly developer Everstone Studio is going to fund future content.
Right now, Where Winds Meet is making all of its money via microtransactions for cosmetics, and even though the game has shown very little signs of going pay-to-win any time soon, there is that risk that Everstone could have a...
