Rolando 3 canned because of ngmoco’s free-to-play model

We’re not sure if App Store mega developer ngmoco’s unique free-to-play model is making the waves the studio hopes it is. But we do know that the recent move broke the original plans for Rolando 3. Speaking to IGN, co-founder Neil Young said the next Rolando wasn’t meant to be a free-to-play game and was cancelled because of it.

“When we made the decision to go free-to-play,” Young said, “we said to ourselves, ‘Look — if we can’t make the game free-to-play, we’re not going to release it.’ And Rolando 3 as it was envisioned at that time was not a free-to-play product. So we’ve just taken the time to try to figure out how to do that franchise really effectively in free-to-play space.”

Rolando 3 Never For Sale [IGN] [image cred]