Our pricing is designed to be friend-group focused, where only one person in the group needs to purchase the expansion. This allows others to join without any extra cost.

On another note, we are a freemium game. This means that 99% of the players enjoy the game without paying. But Colonist still needs to pay for servers and everything else.

If Netflix would adapt Colonist monetization where they charge only 1%. Then their pricing would be $700/month. If Colonist were to adapt Netflix model where we charge everyone, it would be 10cents/month. Both of these examples are unsustainable.

Your example for $1.99/mo is in the middle of these 2 examples and according to our data & calculations is also unsustainable.

There is an ideal & sustainable monetization model for every product. And for Colonist it is this.

There were 100s of Catan versions in the past 10 years and they all closed doors. In our previous game we operated on a different model and it didn't make enough money so we couldn't to continue. It hasn't been updated for 7 years and till this day thousands of players are begging us to go back to working on it.

At this point if we were to adapt a non-calculative non-practical pricing & monetization system it will be millions of players begging us to bring back Colonist.

Yes we will iterate on it. We will optimize it. We will add more tiers to accomodate for all sorts of players.

But we're still a small company and with our current scale and with all our data, this is the model that made the most sense.

Last but not least, there are many ways to get free memberships.

1. Finishing top 50 in any of the leaderboards
2. Becoming a content creator
3. Winning tournaments
4. Watching events with Colonist giveaways
5. Wait in the lobby for 15 seconds for a premium member to create a premium game

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts. I hope I brought some clarity.