Rumour: PES Could Be Going 'Properly Free-To-Play' This Year

It really depends on what features are sacrificed. Does myClub really make money for Konami?

If things like the edit mode are put behind a paywall and zero changes are made to master league, this could kill the franchise. If PES does go freemium and heavily pushes myClub over everything else… my PES playing days might be done.

I don’t think PES can compete with FIFA sales, even if the games is free. Might just be the last roll of the dice for Konami.

I’ve always been a PES player. I’ll wait till July 21st and remain cautiously optimistic.

They'll never get sales until they get the licence to represent all teams. It's simple as that. It's the only reason FIFA sells. It has no proper competition.

Pes is miles ahead when it comes to gameplay

I tried PES on game pass recently for the licensed Euros content. It's still way ahead of FIFA for gameplay. Matches against AI are somewhat variable and unpredictable. You can try all sorts of plays and see something different each time. I only play FIFA 21 online against friends because against the AI, it's predictable, repetitive and boring - on any difficulty setting. I'm not sure what the future holds for PES but if it dies then I hope EA snatch up their 'gameplay' development team as it's still one of if not the best representation of sport out there. Imperfect yes, but what sports games aren't?

@Carck 'the unpredictable nature of the game, is what makes the multiplayer tiring and stale.'

Erm ooookaayy lol if only we had repetitive predictable gameplay to make it exciting

@Carck So the better players never lose on FIFA? Or the better players never lose in real sports?

You ever thought you just aren't as good as of a player as you like to think?

And the best players do win the majority of the time aka why there are rankings where you can see people near the top have high win percentages lol

Let me guess everytime you lose its never because you got beat by a better player, it was down to scripting? Lol

I got Game Pass Ultimate with a Series S, and one of the first games I downloaded was PES to give it a try. I admit I'm just a casual player of FIFA and had heard a lot of good things about better gameplay with PES. Honestly--I didn't care for any of it--graphics, presentations, or gameplay. FIFA is far from a perfect game, but it's easy for me to see why it has more mass appeal than PES.

With free to play, I wonder if we'll see ingame commercials.

They probably have little choice with so many supporting FIFA despite it not playing as well

@Originut I tried FIFA 21 through Gamepass and it didn't feel anywhere near as good to play as the last Pro Evo I had which was a few years ago now. With Pro Evo I feel the game does what I want to where as with FIFA it just seems to roughly interpret what I've asked it to do

Saying that Fifa is better than PES is like saying that McDonald's is objectively better than a 3 star steak restaurant..

PES was, is and always WILL be the better football game, at least: if you're a purist and want to play the game that offers the best and most realistic representation of the beautiful game that is football.

Let all the cool kids drink their Coke, and enjoy all the not so subtle advertising and monetizing that comes with it, and we'll just stick with the finer things in life...

@StylesT "So the better players never lose on FIFA?"

Man, I wish I could have given you FAR more than just that one like for that ENTIRE comment of yours, because it hits SO many nails right on the head.

But, as already clear from your exchange, once people are firmly hooked on the Fifa Kool-Aid, there's no amount of logic that can make them understand that they're just talking out of the other end...

As long as Master League is still in there I'll be happy