You know CryTek, makers of the most prettiest of pretty game engines? Well, they’ve mentioned to VideoGamer.com that they’re going completely free to play just as soon as they bloody well can.
CEO, Cervat Yerli, said that the current model of selling a game to a consumer and then letting them play it wasn’t very nice. Well, actually, he said that gouging players for DLC and premium services wasn’t nice but it all leads to the same thing: They’re going to stop offering the option to buy additional content after the game and start badgering us to buy it during the game instead.
Right now we are in the transitional phase of our company, transitioning from packaged goods games into an entirely free-to-play experience
What this entails is that our future, all the new games that we’re working on, as well new projects, new platforms and technologies, are designed around free-to-play and online, with the highest quality development.
It’s difficult to argue with him from a business perspective – so-called Free to Play model is, ironically, the most profitable but it has yet to prove capable of providing the same kind of experiences on the same kind of scale as the traditional model. It’s disappointing to see a traditionally excellent developer abandon the system of making and selling games that I’m comfortable with but it also gives me slightly more confidence in future Free to Play market. That it will have excellent talent like CryTek’s involved might lead to an overall increase in standards.
Shall we start asking for that Free to Play TimeSplitter multiplayer game now?
Source: VideoGamer
Gingerballs1
f2p is good as long as its not pay 2 win but someone needs to do a pay 2 win 2 get paid like gambling but with cod or battlefield
say your playing free 4 all each player put in a pound 95 goes 2 the pot the 5 goes 2 the publisher developer whoever 4 running servers and wot not and we the gamers can actually earn while on the couch and recoup some losses from buying new games or consoles
dont know why nobody has done this b4 or if they have i never heard of it imagine every game was like this any racing shooting or sports or poker basically anything competitive everyone loves a bet but not many can bet on there own skills with people all around the world it would shut a lot of annoying people up when they have 2 put there money were there mouth is sorry for rambling on but i think it could be a good idea
RaffatheRed
Well Crytek have done Warface on the PC which is f2p and its really good, excellent visuals as you’d expect