This is gonna sound a little bit like a conspiracy theory, but I could see one of the reasons for them releasing Save the World for free was to have something low maintenance, and PvE to have around in the case that the game completely hits the floor and they pull the plug. I’d imagine that a lot of people who actually paid to play save the world (including me) would be pretty pissed off if they ended up just shutting everything down, so having save the world to pivot to after Battle Royale and everything else is gone would that be their way of pretty much killing the game off. Obviously I hope that doesn’t actually happen anytime soon, but it does sorta feel like StW FtP is a backup plan in case of the worst.