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Crytek Going Entirely Free-to-Play

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Crytek CEO tells Videogamer.com that Crytek is moving towards developing only free-to-play games. "Right now we are in the transitional phase of our company, transitioning from packaged goods games into an entirely free-to-play experience," he told them at E3. "What this entails is that our future, all the new games that we're working on, as well new projects, new platforms and technologies, are designed around free-to-play and online, with the highest quality development."

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Re: Crytek Going Entirely Free-to-Play

Jun 11, 2012, 12:31

Jerykk

You haven't even tried Crysis 2, Jerykk, so what are you saying? I didn't like Far Cry that much. I fucking hated Crysis. I freaking LOVED Crysis 2. It's solid, it doesn't give you that stupid illusion of freedom Crysis did, and the engine is a whole other sweet baby. Crysis 2 looks gorgeous and runs with a solid 60fps on my 3 year old machine. I suggest you try first, before throwing in opinions based on absolutely nothing. I never said Crysis 2 sucks. I said I haven't bothered trying it yet because Crysis was underwhelming and I have no real interest in Crysis 3. I do have to question your "stupid illusion of freedom" statement. Does that mean that Crysis 2 offers genuine freedom? Or that it offers no freedom at all and doesn't even pretend to? Everything I've seen and read suggests that C2 is a much more linear game than the first one. Free-to-play is a good model for casual online multiplayer, but it leaves a massive portion of the market behind. I wouldn't say that F2P only works for casual multiplayer games. MOBA games like LoL, HoN and DotA2 are anything but casual. Tribes: Ascend is definitely not casual either. Conversely, traditional retail games like CoD are about as casual as it gets.

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Comment [quote="Jerykk"Jun 11, 2012, 12:31]q[You haven't even tried Crysis 2, Jerykk, so what are you saying? I didn't like Far Cry that much. I fucking hated Crysis. I freaking LOVED Crysis 2. It's solid, it doesn't give you that stupid illusion of freedom Crysis did, and the engine is a whole other sweet baby. Crysis 2 looks gorgeous and runs with a solid 60fps on my 3 year old machine. I suggest you try first, before throwing in opinions based on absolutely nothing.]q I never said Crysis 2 sucks. I said I haven't bothered trying it yet because Crysis was underwhelming and I have no real interest in Crysis 3. I do have to question your "stupid illusion of freedom" statement. Does that mean that Crysis 2 offers genuine freedom? Or that it offers no freedom at all and doesn't even pretend to? Everything I've seen and read suggests that C2 is a much more linear game than the first one. q[Free-to-play is a good model for casual online multiplayer, but it leaves a massive portion of the market behind.]q I wouldn't say that F2P only works for casual multiplayer games. MOBA games like LoL, HoN and DotA2 are anything but casual. Tribes: Ascend is definitely not casual either. Conversely, traditional retail games like CoD are about as casual as it gets. [/quote]

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