Honest question: how comparable is Lawbreakers to Quake Champions? If similar enough, QC is launching f2p but with a $30 "get all current heroes and future heroes plus some extra bonus stuff" sort of like Smite and Paladins. Depending on the f2p mechanism, wouldnt performance of QC impact Lawbreakers move to f2p or staying the course?
To be honest, unless it goes f2p or something major occurs to get by in from the mass market, I dont see what saves this game. In a week is the juggernaut Destiny 2. I know its not the same thing but is a pseudo hero shooter what with each class and its abilities. No idea how that will do on PC (seems there is a large untapped audience) and it will do extremely well on console. Then from there you start heading into the very crowded fps market this fall. I mean Lawbreakers basically has UT (free on the epic launcher), Quake Champions, Paladins, Overwatch, even Battleborne plus everything that is coming. At least as f2p you might get people interested and wanting a break from the other titles to jump in for a bit and maybe drop some cash.
Feels bad as it looks interesting and fans seem to like it but again, I am back in the "how does this compare to Quake Champions which also seems to have the same response but is f2p" and then I sit back and go "wait, Destiny 2 comes out in a week..."