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http://www.videogamer.com/pc/warface/news/crytek_all_our_future_games_will_be_free-to-play.html

But once Crytek has completed its current contracts with traditional boxed products, its studios will only produce F2P titles - supported by its new social gaming platform, GFACE.

"As we were developing console games we knew, very clearly, that the future is online and free-to-play," said Yerli.

Future is scary.

I thought they stated that they wanted to continue producing AAA Titles ? And i dont asume these to be F2P.

the games will be free to play, but they will probably start charging for ammo

I have decided to generalize this thread to allow me to rant and ridicule with more ease.

Wii U got free-to-play.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/120606qa/index.html

With respect to the Wii U system, when we began working on it, one of our goals was to have a variety of purchase options and additional e-commerce options available at its launch. And because of that, we have prepared a Digital Rights Management system. We have designed the system from a technical standpoint to allow developers to freely take advantage of things like free to play and micro transactions.

TOR is not doing so hot.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/06/15/hmmm-the-old-republic-looking-at-free-to-play/

So basically, F2P’s finally coming of age, and players now demand it instead of recoiling in disgust at thoughts of nickles, dimes, and pay-to-win pyramid schemes. Meanwhile, BioWare’s made no bones about the need to evolve to survive – even as it attempted to tell us everything was a-okay mere days before, well, you know.

And we are moving to games being designed to maximize revenue. I guess quality isn't a great selling point for stakeholders.

the games will be free to play, but they will probably start charging for ammo

IIRC..... kinda sure i do.... there was a game out there were you had to buy ammo but could play it for free! Don't remember name right now...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/microtransactions-will-be-in-every-game-says-ea-6383445

"I think, ultimately, those microtransactions will be in every game, but the game itself or the access to the game will be free," he said. "I think there's an inevitability that happens five years from now, 10 years from now, that, let's call it the client, to use the term, [is free]. It is no different than…it's free to me to walk into The Gap in my local shopping mall. They don't charge me to walk in there. I can walk into The Gap, enjoy the music, look at the jeans and what have you, but if I want to buy something I have to pay for it."

Enjoy the music people. Cause if you want a true experience you are paying $100+ a game for a service that you don't control and can be taken from you anytime.

I feel this does a good job of covering some of things I yelp about.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/games-as-a-service-does-disservice-to-gamers-6383753/

It's no wonder publishers still love the idea, because it gives them an unprecedented level of control over the player experience...This makes the games ultimately disposable, while making the publishers utterly indispensable and inseparable from the games they sell.

In practice, the free-to-play approach inextricably links the business model with the game design...I'd rather have the Shigeru Miyamotos of the world choose games based on what they're inspired to create, not on which projects they think can be adapted to a viable business model to maximize average revenue per paying user.

I recently got an urge to play an older download-only title I bought that requires online activitation. The company I purchased it from is gone. The authentication launcher sends me to 404s.

I can either buy the game again from another vendor or pirate it. I didn't buy a game, I bought access.

Well this will be terrible.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/259026/ouya_to_enter_gaming_market_with_99_androidpowered_console.html

All games must have a free-to-play element, whether it's a timed trial, a feature-locked demo or a complete experience filled with microtransactions.

i like Trials for MMOG's.
Most games in Android store already have a feature/level locked demo.
So only tha Free+micro transactions really bothers me!

i Wonder if the built in a Fan xD its a Tegra 3 ! Tablets Overheating .... Asus was it ?

Well, if they make a deal with Sony for their Android PS Store, they might get more games and better for joystick.

There are quite a few emu's for PS and Gamecube & stuff on Android!
With Tegra 3 they might even get PS2 emu! So maybe a lot "old school gamers" who want that retro feeling with old games might get this console.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/ultima-iv-remade-as-free-to-play-ultima-forever-6386583

Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar is set to launch on iPad and PC later this year. The game, which Barnett said will be playable "start to finish" for free, is the second major free-to-play project from BioWare, the first being Facebook tie-in Dragon Age Legends.

Barnett said. So instead of "glass walls" preventing advancement through the game, Ultima Forever players will be able to buy additional means of transport or the ability to fast travel through the world.

Travel is a key part of gameplay in the original.

*Achieves partial Avatarhood in suck*

I think in future people will have a less time to play an online game. So, it should be in the mind of developer to design a game in such to way where people don't have leave the game for next free interval.

http://kotaku.com/5930586/star-wars-the-old-republic-is-going-free+to+play-up-to-level-50-this-fall

That was fast.

http://kotaku.com/5930586/star-wars-the-old-republic-is-going-free+to+play-up-to-level-50-this-fall

That was fast.

I'm glad. I wanted to try the game, but couldn't justify the expense with my limited time and stack of unfinished games.

hehe Lucky i played the Beta! So i knew i wouldn't want to pay for it!

But even Free i don't really feel like playing it.



Some1 wanna make bets how long it takes "The Secret World" to become F2P ?

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/08/22/pc-gaming-has-around-a-93-95-per-cent-piracy-rate-claims-ubisoft-ceo/

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has been speaking to GamesIndustry International about Ubi’s reasons for embracing the free to play model. He says free to play games are more cost effective to create because typical PC releases are so heavily pirated. He claims that “only about five to seven per cent” of players pay for PC games, “the rest is pirated.”

Guillemot doesn’t provide any evidence for this, but insists that the rate of paying customers for a traditional release is equal to that of a free to play game. He says that the free to play model lets Ubisoft “take content which we’ve developed in the past, graphics etc,” to make “cheaper games and improve them over time.”

It could be 0% and they would still be going F2P if it is more profitable.

Meanwhile, in the real world...

http://portal.bsa.org/globalpiracy2011/