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Won't even let nikkaz eat off free games or apps without making em pay.

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World of Tanks and the Free-to-Play Console War | GamesIndustry International

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it's an interesting article

The idea of a free-to-play game on consoles sounds like a win-win for publisher and consumer, but in reality it's a lot harder to pull off than on PC. Console manufacturers are gatekeepers to their content and they are notoriously slow at adapting to the new business ideas and services that have revitalised the PC and mobile gaming markets.

"Everybody knows Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are traditional console companies which are huge in their own merit. They have lots of divisions, lots of departments, lots of regulations. We respect that, and whining and complaining about that structure does not help," says Kislyi. "We're now working hard with Microsoft's people as a team to build this and to break a couple of rules inside Microsoft."

Rule breaking - or at least rule bending - has to happen, according to Kislyi. Perhaps the second biggest barrier to free-to-play games on Xbox (after that fact you're paying for a free-to-play game through a service subscription to Xbox Live) is the need to push constant updates to the player. On PC that's a relatively easy process, but on consoles that notoriously charge developers for updates, it's never going to be viable.

"We as a company are definitely insisting on breaking all the rules. That's the definition of free-to-play. Free-to-play has to be transparent, right? And Microsoft traditionally, as a retail boxed business model, has a lot of restrictions - technological, legal, and whatnot. For them and for us this is a big move forward and it's quite risky," offers Kislyi.

Kislyi won't say if Microsoft is dropping fees for updates to World of Tanks, or exactly how the certification rules are being bent. "Nobody tells you officially of course, but we have the feeling that they have the feeling..." He trails off and tries different phrasing. "If console companies don't adapt to the new realities of the entertainment industry they will have hard times." But then Microsoft has been thinking differently, and more relaxed policies have clearly been to its benefit - evidenced by its success with 4J's Minecraft on console.

"With free-to-play on PC you release updates instantly if you need to for bug fixes and if the community demands something. With console and the certification process it takes time. But just relying on that retail $60 box - it's obvious that's not going to work," adds Kislyi. "You see other publishers having huge trouble trying to keep with the boxed business or trying to do subscription MMOs. Many of them are not able to do it very well."
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MeachTheMonster said:
This is an online multiplayer game. You need gold to play online just as you need ps+ to play online.

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It's supposed to be a free-2-play game. It's Free 2 play because they want as many folks playing. The more folks playing, the more people spending money on microtransactions. That's how developers/publishers make money on a Free-2-play games. If the games is behind a Paywall, that defeats the purpose.



Sony gets it:
Publishers decide whether to require PS Plus subscription for F2P games on PS4 (update)

By Samit Sarkar on Jun 13, 2013 at 12:30a @SamitSarkar


The free-to-play MMOs DC Universe Online and PlanetSide 2 won't require PlayStation 4 users to subscribe to PlayStation Plus in order to play them, publisher Sony Online Entertainment confirmed to Polygon today.

Sony announced during its E3 press briefing Monday evening that online multiplayer gaming on PS4 will require a Plus subscription, which costs $9.99 per month, $17.99 for three months or $49.99 for 12 months.

But in an interview on the E3 show floor, DC Universe Online creative director Jens Andersen said, "We are a free-to-play game; you do not have to pay for PlayStation Plus to play [DC Universe Online]." He added that PS4 players will be able to play with their PlayStation 3-owning friends, since both versions of the game will share servers. DC Universe Online became a free-to-play title in November 2011.

A representative for Sony Online Entertainment said that the same is true for PlanetSide 2. The company said last week that both games are on their way to PS4 this year.

We spent some hands-on time with the PS4 version of DC Universe Online. The most noticeable improvements over its PS3 counterpart were performance and textures: The frame rate held up well even when there was a lot on the screen, and texture fidelity was higher as well.

According to Andersen, Sony Online isn't just using assets from the Windows PC version of the game; it's customizing them for the PS4 version, and adding more detail to faces and other elements. The studio is also tweaking the interface to reduce clutter; those changes will eventually make their way to the PC and PS3 versions.

Tramell Ray Isaac, senior art director on PlanetSide 2, told Polygon that because the MMO first-person shooter is such a skill-based game, it doesn't make sense for Sony Online to allow PC players to share servers with PS4 players. But the studio is planning to support keyboard and mouse usage on the PS4 version. According to Isaac, the content between the PC and PS4 versions will be identical, and Sony Online is exploring options like letting players carry over their leveled-up PC characters to PS4.

Update: Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, told Polygon that the PlayStation Plus subscription requirement is up to publishers for free-to-play PS4 games. "As far as free-to-play games are concerned, it's a publisher's decision whether they put it inside or outside of the PlayStation Plus requirements," he said.

Yoshida listed two other free-to-play titles that have been announced for PS4, Zombie Studios' Blacklight: Retribution and Digital Extremes' Warframe, and said they won't require a Plus subscription, either.



Publishers decide whether to require PS Plus subscription for F2P games on PS4 (update) | Polygon
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Who has an xbox and doesn't pay for live anyway :yeshrug: the only ones that bytch about it are you Coli lames

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B86 said:
Who has an xbox and doesn't pay for live anyway :yeshrug: the only ones that bytch about it are you Coli lames

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Millions....not everyone is on Live. I know there is this myth that 100 percent of Xbox owners are on live, but that's just not true bruh.
 
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