Basic Trope: An app, website, game, etc. that can be played or used for free, but to get the most out of it, you'll need to upgrade to a paid account.
- Straight: Anyone can play ''TropeWorlds'' for free, but players get more Phlebotinum and/or other perks for upgrading to a paid account.
- Exaggerated: Trope Worlds is free, but only as a five-minute demo. After that, you need to pay to play.
- Downplayed: New players can access a code that's good for a 30-Day Free Trial of the enhanced paid-account version. They can then choose to let the trial expire, or to upgrade to a paid account.
- Justified: In order to be able to provide the game/app/site/etc. for free, the people behind it need a certain amount of people to pay for it. In order to get them to pay, they make it worthwhile by adding in more features.
- Inverted: An app/website/game/etc. that used to require payment to use becomes available to everyone for free, all features included.
- Subverted:
- The blogsite "Trope Journal" allows free-account-users who agree to allow ad banners on their blogs have all of the features they would get with a paid account.
- Trope Worlds offers items for sale via credits that can be purchased with real money, but no distinct paid/premium/etc. accounts
- Some of Trope Worlds' premium features become available to free-account users.
- Double Subverted:
- But if they don't want ads on their blog, they'll have to spring for a paid account.
- But buying the credits means getting more things to enhance the game, or things that will make it easier to advance.
- The paid accounts still have more features than the paid accounts, or the ones that became available to free accounts are replaced with new premium features.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- The features for paid accounts and free accounts are the same.
- There is only a paid account, or only a free account.
- Enforced: See "justified"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Bob plays for a while, but then decides he needs more dragons to destroy Alice's in-game castle. In order to get enough credits to buy more dragons, or enough space for a dragon in his party, he'll need to upgrade to a paid account.
- Exploited: Bob keeps entering the various "free trial" codes he finds online, even though he's been a Trope Worlds member for years.
- Defied: Bob feels he can't justify buying a paid account or buying credits, so he makes do with what he has.
- Discussed: "Again with the freemium. It's bad enough that small games give you a pay wall for more stuff, but the Triple A games are on it too!?"
- Conversed: "Does anyone else feel that most games now a days give you a free game but make you pay for the more exclusive items? Because this is the trend they're following."
- Implied: The name Trope Worlds kind of implies it has a freemium paywall to the design.
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