DoctorB77 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Xbox 720 May Eventually be Free to Play Online Source: Examiner The Xbox 720 may go eventually to play, but will this be true? The Xbox 720 is close to being unveiled and one of the questions that is still up in the air is what type of model the system will ultimately adapt. According to a report from GamesIndustryon Friday, Crytek chief executive officer Cevat Yerli talked about the decision they made to make free-to-play games equal to the same quality as pay-to-play titles. "We decided five or six years ago that we want to marry the quality of triple-A games with the business model of free-to-play. "And at that time, we decided some other games, in some of our other studios, would head in this direction. "But we kept pushing the quality bar higher on our console business, which is the main dominating business for the Western world, but we are observing, plainly - and we see this already with 'Warface' - that the free-to-play market is on the rise. "We're looking at free-to-play as a force that drives our growth and world-domination plans."I think over the next two to three years, free-to-play is going to rival retail with quality games like 'Warface.' "So we have quite a few console titles in our pipeline that are [traditional retail games] while we investigate free-to-play on consoles. But our primary goal is to make triple-A free-to-play games for the world market and transition entirely to that," Yerli said. Yerli then went on to talk about their upcoming platform GFace. "As a company, [we will] transition from a developer to a service company, and we're going to offer a platform, with G-Face, to any other [developer that needs it]. "If we could launch our games on a platform that already exists today, and we could get the same results, then we wouldn't build our own platform. But we're convinced that our platform does some particularly new things that makes our games behave better. That's why we plan to offer this service to third parties. "This doesn't mean our main business will be driven by our platform business. We are just going to open it up and see how it works. We are always going to be a games-first company. "We will always have our own development because we are all about making games. We provide technology, but technology is not our main driver. We make technology to make great games," Yerli said. View attachment: xbox.jpg View full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a live dinosaur Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Awesome, I may not have to worry about paying an extra 60$ every year, especially for a console that will cost around $400-$500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Orbis Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 @Forum Dinosaur Actually, some of the leaked documents said it was $300, but they could've changed it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevo91 Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 I don't believe it for one second. Game developed are finding more and more ways to charge us for money. Whether it be for map packs, COOP (dead space 3), bundle packs (BF3, Borderlands 2 etc), or just to play online in the first place. Why would they give us whole games for free now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
URBAN B0BCAT Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 I don't believe it for one second. Game developed are finding more and more ways to charge us for money. Whether it be for map packs, COOP (dead space 3), bundle packs (BF3, Borderlands 2 etc), or just to play online in the first place. Why would they give us whole games for free now? Like handheld gaming on phones, they make money through advertisement and add-ons. You'll likely see free "Basic" game modes available that will tease you into the add-ons or season passes for mulitplayer. Additionally, we may see a major spike in branding within video games. Imagine any platform of game that involves a city. Then imagine a "Coke" vending machine placed at nearly every corner. That's likely what you'll see if these release for "Free". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haloman 2 Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 i'd love it if this happens! it had better! but i won't be too surprised if they change it. which they probably will and make us pay a fee before hand and then downloading games and all that will be free. that would be ok. i COULD deal with that. i hope its all free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Silver Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 There are already a few free-to-play games on the xbox marketplace. If you use them as examples(such as Happy Wars) then you will quickly realize that free-to-play actually means pay-to-win. They will give you the game(multiplayer/campaign/other simple stuff) for free and then charge you for bonus multiplayer maps/weapons/character customization/dlc/etc. as well as bonus campaign missions/characters/weapons/etc. To put it simply, you get the stripped down version thats missing all of the good stuff for free. then you pay to get either a full campaign experience, better weapons to win in multiplayer, or both. Also, no where in there does it say they are removing the fee for xbox live even though thats the rumor I hear going around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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