Thursday, August 16, 2012

Command & Conquer series pivots into a free-to-play future

Command & Conquer series pivots into a free-to-play future:
The concept of paying money up front for the privilege of playing a PC game is beginning to look downright old-fashioned these days. Venerable real-time strategy series Command & Conquer has become the latest to make the transition away from up-front purchases today, with EA today announcing the launch of a "new free-to-play destination" for the series.
The in-development game formerly known as Command & Conquer Generals 2 will no longer be a retail product, but will launch next year as the "first of many free offerings" on the new platform, which will grow to encompass "Red Alert, Tiberium, and beyond," EA said in a statement. This doesn't mean Generals 2 is morphing into a browser-based Flash title or anything; the game will still launch as a standalone client powered by the same Frostbite 2 engine used in Battlefield 3. But the move to a free-to-play model does seem to have affected the game's previously planned single-player campaign mode, at least initially.
“At launch, the focus will be on multiplayer as we are currently focused on building a fun, high quality RTS experience that we want to get in your hands as soon as possible," EA VP and General Manager Jon Van Carnegiea told IGN. "From there, we will continuously evaluate additional content based on a variety of player feedback.”
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