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UT F2P. Its a no brainer, really.
The argument seems to be that no arena shooter (and/or PC exclusive multiplayer game) is going to succeed these days without being free to play.Maybe I missed something, why are you guys so sure its F2P?
Thinking otherwise is down right crazy.
There's no way aspic is going to throw Gears like budgets after a PC game. As awesome as the PC is a gaming platform, it is simply not mainstream or where the big push will ever be in terms of marketing. Money wise I can't say, but I'll guess there is more money to be made in an console release.
Yeah, I have no interest in a Free to play UT when I can still find a match for the original with tons of user made content. My UT folder is over 9 gigs at this point.
It's not going to be anything graphically impressive either because they are bound by MS and Sony to not show their UE4 engine until next gen platforms show up. They also don't have the budget to spend money on a PC exclusive UE4 game. So it's almost surely going to be F2P.
Im saying Windows 8 LIVE exclusive F2P Unreal Tournament.
and after a few months it will come to the console
a la Witcher 2
Wasn't the latest UT a complete disaster?
Nope I did the same thing I did when they charged for it. Didn't buy/download/play it. Not interested in that game at all.
I know someone who swears that UT3 is the best game of all time. (he also plays it almost every day)Wasn't the latest UT a complete disaster?
I'd love to see a mashup of UT99 and UT2004 go F2P. Make the business model based off of cosmetic stuff (like TF2) and don't lock actual content behind a pay wall.
That's my dream anyway, and it's fairly modest, imo.
Well they have always released gameplay content both small and massive in size for free (see Black Edition for UT3 and previous Bonus Packs), why stop now?
Well the idea of a f2p game is to still make money, while allowing people to play for free. Some f2p take different approaches and put certain content or weapons behind a paywall (or pay to win), whereas others (primarily tf2 comes to mind) make paying completely optional and cosmetic.
The only reason to make a PC exclusive is if it's something that can only be done on PC, otherwise you're just leaving money on the table. Epic mostly make shooters, and those have been successful on console.Maybe I missed something, why are you guys so sure its F2P?
.Unreal Tournament 4 on Unreal Engine 4 featuring melee combat from the Championship games, and playing like a proper sequel to UT2K4.
Epic instantly redeemed for wasting six years on Gears.
We thought a lot about a sequel, and had done some initial development on it, but we found a project that we thought was a better fit for People Can Fly," he said. "We haven't announced that yet, but we will be announcing it pretty soon."
"I think Bulletstorm was very critically successful, and I think a lot of folks really enjoyed seeing something new," he said. "From a sales perspective it was good, but not amazing. I think EA was hoping we'd do better."
"We made a PC version of Bulletstorm, and it didn't do very well on PC and I think a lot of that was due to piracy. It wasn't the best PC port ever, sure, but also piracy was a pretty big problem."
Bulletstorm 2 was in the works but got officially shelved.
http://au.gamespot.com/news/epic-shelved-bulletstorm-sequel-6370603
Veiled threat to console makers "if you don't beef up specs we're going to do PC exclusives"?
Advance Wars with big budget production values in the Gears universe?Please be an asynchronous turn-based squad-based strategy title with Gears.
...no seriously.
Brilliant.Unreal Tournament 4 on Unreal Engine 4 featuring melee combat from the Championship games, and playing like a proper sequel to UT2K4.
Epic instantly redeemed for wasting six years on Gears.
Unreal Tournament 4 on Unreal Engine 4 featuring melee combat from the Championship games, and playing like a proper sequel to UT2K4.
Epic instantly redeemed for wasting six years on Gears.
Same.I'd rather a new IP than Unreal Tournament.
Now that i recall weren't they supposed to be making a pc only game called "mercenary ops", i remember reading it awhile back, not sure if they mentioned it was pc exclusive or multiplatform though.
Let me guess, you're one of those who boycotted TF2 when it went F2P, right?
TF2 sucked from the beginning compared to the previous TF rulesets, namely TFC and QWTF.
you played TF before Team Fortress became popular!
They also don't have the budget to spend money on a PC exclusive UE4 game.
Yes. Jealous?