Frank Gibeau of Electronic Arts made a submission to a possible change to a Free2Play model for the online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic. The future of MMOs, he looks not at risk.
Update: In an interview with the English-language website PC gamers, now expresses itself also BioWare James Ohlen for possible conversion to Free2Play. The creative director for Star Wars: The Old Republic sees Free2Play an equal rank with the subscription model. Ohlen is of the opinion that games should be designed from the ground up F2P, otherwise the exchange of Pay-To-Play Create rather difficult but not impossible. Star Wars is coming soon: The Old Republic at least level 15 to be played for free.
Original message: Already in the past week, said the lead designer Emmanuel Lusinchi that the developer BioWare is currently possible for a Free2Play changeover for the online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic checks. Now signed up to Frank Gibeau, president of Electronic Arts label, in an interview with the magazine Gamesindustry.biz say.
He confirmed that BioWare and Electronic Arts currently view some Free2Play models more accurate. However, it is his opinion, very important that those responsible do not make such a hasty decision.
"We will still be a long time in business. Therefore, we will definitely take such things as free access to the game, free trials in the eye. Ultimately, we will change one day to such a model, but this is all a matter of timing and must be well thought through. Currently the business is going very well and we will not make any abrupt changes. (...) Our strategy is now that we facilitate access to the game and thus acquire more customers who are interested in Star Wars but did not want to pay the full price."
In addition, there are Gibeau very confident that people Star Wars: The Old Republic will play in ten years - in what way and with what model whatsoever.
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