The Daily Session Timer is what the team landed on as the best way to run a sustainable business while still giving free and Pro users a good experience. It came from real data, and a number of different approaches were considered before landing on it.
We’re also actively working on ways to give free users more playtime flexibility, and we’ll have more to share on that soon. Wand Pro removes the timer for players who want unlimited playtime.
Full breakdown here: Session timer FAQ
Here is our most recent announcement from our discord feedback thread!
Hey all, quick update on the two-hour Daily Session Timer and the survey we ran recently. First off, thanks to many of you who shared helpful feedback and insights on the survey. The results validated what we heard from you all here in Discord about being interested in completing activities like watching ads or using features in the app for more playtime.
I want to restate where we stand on the Daily Session Timer. When we made the decision to bring it back, we looked closely at the data and weighed a number of different approaches. The timer is what we landed on as the best way to run a sustainable business while still giving free and Pro users a good experience. Looking at the period when everyone had unlimited playtime, over half of our free users were playing for two hours or less per day.
I recognize that a good number of you here play more than two hours a day, and that’s probably part of why this feels like a bigger deal in this community than it does across our broader user base. We have to weigh what works for players against what keeps Wand running, and the timer is where we landed on that balance. We also looked at what some of our competitors offer and decided that drastically limiting what games you have access to, complicated pricing and membership tiers, or making you pay for access to specific mods and trainers wasn’t the route we wanted to take.
Pro is a subscription instead of a one-time purchase for a similar reason. Games keep changing after they launch, and keeping thousands of mods working after those changes is a big undertaking. A subscription funds that ongoing work and ensures we can keep with the pace of game releases and updates. A one-time payment wouldn’t allow us to provide that kind of service.
All that being said, you’ve made it clear you want more flexibility here, and I hear that. We’re not removing the Daily Session Timer, but we are working on ways to implement your feedback about wanting more playtime. We’ll have more to share on that soon.
We’ll keep collecting data as these changes go live, and we’ll keep making decisions based on what we learn. If after the next update you still feel like you want more play time, that means you’re getting a lot out of Wand and we’d ask you to consider upgrading to Pro.