[johnnyanmac]

>st change things willy nilly. If Baldur's Gate 3 had been a microtransaction-funded F2P game, it would have been a flop

Hot take, but I think it would have been fine financially. Would the online consumers and even media drag it through the mud? Definitely. But I reckon console gamers have less than a 10% chance in correctly predicting some f2p model would crash and burn.

Now I can't say if it'd be more profitable than selling as premium, because it didn't target mobile and that is the real market for that monetization. But I doubt it would have crashed.

[qwytw]

It would've had to have been an extremely different game though. F2P P2W shovelware games are designed as such from the ground up. You can't just add micro-transactions to a normal (especially story driven) game and hope to make significant amounts of money.