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The death of the AAA single player experience and the ongoing fight for the multiplayer dollar. Another one bites the dust.
Well... alright. Hopefully Far Cry 3 and Crysis 3 will be decent swan songs for them then. Goodnight sweet prince.
Wait. Does the "free-to-play" structure mean the end of the single player campaign? I might be in the minority here since even with shooters my focus is always on the single-player experience. It would honestly suck, for me anyway, if this is the direction Crytek is going.
What gets me is how they expect to reach the largest possible audience (which is generally required to make the f2p model function) when their software usually requires current, hefty hardware.
I wonder which smaller devs will try to capitalize on the upcoming AAA vacuum by releasing their own Modern Battlefighter, but with notably inferior technical skills. I'd be much happier if this shift cleared out the annual competition for great games like Lollipop Chainsaw and Bayonetta, and their respective developerers.
I wonder which smaller devs will try to capitalize on the upcoming AAA vacuum by releasing their own Modern Battlefighter, but with notably inferior technical skills. I'd be much happier if this shift cleared out the annual competition for great games like Lollipop Chainsaw and Bayonetta, and their respective developerers.
Not really dude
"The world of freemium games is getting credible, and lucrative, and could soon make the old $60 business model archaic. "
Not only does it not work with 99 percent of genres. Most of the products are so gimped. Its hardly going to make actual games archaic
yes there are exceptions
But overall this will just make them irrelevant ( if they arent already)
"The world of freemium games is getting credible, and lucrative, and could soon make the old $60 business model archaic. "
Not only does it not work with 99 percent of genres. Most of the products are so gimped. Its hardly going to make actual games archaic
yes there are exceptions
But overall this will just make them irrelevant ( if they arent already)
So I guess Tribes Ascend and Blacklight aren't "actual games", and Planetside 2 won't be either, right?
This move kind of makes sense, given how many people pirated their games just to jerk off their gpus. Now they can lure those graphics testers into buying
I feel like I'd rather pay once and be done with it than be bombarded with more and more inventive ways to manipulate me into paying for stuff. Which no doubt will be more expensive than said $60 for the full experience.
Congratulations you have beaten level one. If you enjoyed ur experience and would like to try level two please insert 10 dollars. To see the end credits and receive all achievements insert 100 dollars. Thanks for playing the Crytek Freesperience.
The current model is, and probably always was, unsustainable. The F2P space is seeing more and more high quality stuff, and the typical $60 AAA space is outright dying no matter which way you slice it. Maybe once the AAA model dies completely, publishers will be able to make a shooter for a reasonable budget, and not have to release the game as F2P. Not that I think it matters.
Also, I'd rather see a F2P Timesplitters than no Timesplitters at all. Especially considering it was turned down by publisher after publisher because it was too risky. Ehh emmm, "risky".
Also, I'd rather see a F2P Timesplitters than no Timesplitters at all. Especially considering it was turned down by publisher after publisher because it was too risky. Ehh emmm, "risky".
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Oh, do they not? Well ... shit. Ok then. I guess I'll hang my hopes on Crysis 3 then. I dug the second quite a bit.
Oh, do they not? Well ... shit. Ok then. I guess I'll hang my hopes on Crysis 3 then. I dug the second quite a bit.
I'm getting mixed signals from Mr. Sterling.
In one post he is upset because "freemium"(which is false) was added to diablo 3, and now hes saying that he hopes more game companies start doing it.
Pick a side fence sitting.
In one post he is upset because "freemium"(which is false) was added to diablo 3, and now hes saying that he hopes more game companies start doing it.
Pick a side fence sitting.
While there are some great F2P games like Tribes: Ascend, the F2P/MMO models force certain design decisions on game structure. It really limits what they can do, because a single-player story campaign that ends is not going to make them any money.
Then again, Crytek sucks anyway.
Then again, Crytek sucks anyway.
one big problem I see here is that crytek is primarily good at making cutting edge game engines, and open world singleplayer games. They completely suck at multiplayer which would be kind of an issue with free2play. In addition to that i have jet to find a free2play game that is really successful to say well this pulls me in and I want to play it, the community playing tf2 for example went significantly worse, tribes ascend forced those silly classes into the game, and really every free2play game has something, even if its not pay to win. If only the much younger crowd being less fun to play with. Freeware on the other hand is awesome, like for example xonotic and some mods for games but free2play games are often not.
Free to play is an interesting concept and certainly seems to make money... but it rather scares me because many of these games do tend to turn into "pay to win" rather than "free to play". Hopefully they do a good job on balance.
Fu u u uck THAT! Looks like I'm not going to be playing anymore Crytek games. Anything that sacrifices my single player experience for a micro transaction driven multiplayer one is officially dead to me. I want single player experiences. I want to be able to buy a game outright and own it. I want to be able to play an entire game from start to finish without having to worry about buying my way to the end.
If your game can't offer me that, then fuck it and fuck you, Crytek. Seriously. I mean this from the bottom of my ass, Fuck You.
If your game can't offer me that, then fuck it and fuck you, Crytek. Seriously. I mean this from the bottom of my ass, Fuck You.
awesome!
no longer will gamers have to fork out $60 or illegally download Crytek games in order to wander around the pretty world doing nothing in particular for 20 mins at a time, then get bored and quit.
no longer will gamers have to fork out $60 or illegally download Crytek games in order to wander around the pretty world doing nothing in particular for 20 mins at a time, then get bored and quit.
I could see F2P workings in very rare circumstances but that means whatever you're paying for is not a contingent on success within the game world. New levels and weapons are good (though I really wish they'd do more with DLC than just that) but when they're needed to complete or compete in the game, I can't get behind that.
You can make all your multiplayer games as free or as paid as you want, I really don't care, but don't stop giving me great single player experiences, developers. I'll continue to drop $60 on the next Elder Scrolls, Batman, Bioshock, Portal, Red Dead, Deus Ex, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted, etc.
60 dollars plus 15 to 20 dollars per dlc pack spread over a few months after release is clearly the better way to go. then when youre done you can sell it back toward the next AAA game./sarcasm
or, AAA for free, with optional pay methods that do not effect game balance.
its not like single player games cant still be sold for 60 bucks. and if you buy single player games and others do to then its obviously a lucrative market to corner. but this developer, and many others, that are focused on the multiplayer (like a majority of customers) find f2p a better way to get your game out to lots of people and keep people coming back to them.
Tribes Ascend, Hawken, Warface, Planetside 2, these games and more are doing free2play right. saying free 2 play cant or wont work is like declaring the world flat. your ideas are antiquated.
or, AAA for free, with optional pay methods that do not effect game balance.
its not like single player games cant still be sold for 60 bucks. and if you buy single player games and others do to then its obviously a lucrative market to corner. but this developer, and many others, that are focused on the multiplayer (like a majority of customers) find f2p a better way to get your game out to lots of people and keep people coming back to them.
Tribes Ascend, Hawken, Warface, Planetside 2, these games and more are doing free2play right. saying free 2 play cant or wont work is like declaring the world flat. your ideas are antiquated.
Sadly, only Far Cry had a somewhat interesting story, so maybe F2P multiplayer-only isn't a bad move. Crysis and Crysis 2 had really poor stories. I wish TimeSplitters had a single player since 2 and Future Perfect had very charming single player campaigns.
Still, people don't play many F2P games.
Still, people don't play many F2P games.
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