With Plus allowing F2P games to be played for free without a Plus sub and Gold adding this sometime in the future. Why don't publishers just make a cut down version of their online games to be F2P. And add the rest of the game as DLC.
For example
Street Fighter. Would be free. But you can only select random icon as your fighter and there is no arcade, story, or training mode. To have access to character select and all the modes you purchase DLC which costs the price of if the game would have released as a standard priced game.
This way most people who are interested in playing the game online would just download the game for free and purchase the DLC. Then they would never need to pay for Plus.
For example
Street Fighter. Would be free. But you can only select random icon as your fighter and there is no arcade, story, or training mode. To have access to character select and all the modes you purchase DLC which costs the price of if the game would have released as a standard priced game.
This way most people who are interested in playing the game online would just download the game for free and purchase the DLC. Then they would never need to pay for Plus.