Do games ever come out of Premium?

[Jellby]

My primary market strategy is temporarily taking the "dead wood" games' off of Premium to get more people playing them. Then reverting them back to Premium.

... with the consequent outcry of people blaming "greedy BGA" for making the game premium, sudden drop in number of games and players announcing they'll cancel their subscription because they can no longer play their favorite game all day long.

[nik592]

My primary market strategy is temporarily taking the "dead wood" games' off of Premium to get more people playing them. Then reverting them back to Premium.

... with the consequent outcry of people blaming "greedy BGA" for making the game premium, sudden drop in number of games and players announcing they'll cancel their subscription because they can no longer play their favorite game all day long.

But if they have a subscription, they'd be able to play their favourite game all day long anyway, so... I can't tell if you were being intentional with that statement or not. I know that threatening to drop your subscription is a favourite tactic among disgruntled users, but in this case, you'd be literally choosing the option that prevents you doing the thing you want to do.

[Jellby]

But if they have a subscription, they'd be able to play their favourite game all day long anyway, so...

Not if the playerbase is reduced because all nonpremium players have left. That's my point.

[Haya Sh]

I agree. I have a premium membership and there are premium games that I can never find players to play with and free games with less active players that always have someone ready to join your table. Dog lovers for example has very few players but I noticed it's not hard to find someone to play with cause it's free. But other premium games with the same players count or more rarely have anyone to join.

Honestly, I think any game that has less than 500 hundred active players usually shouldn't be premium to introduce more people to it.