I don’t know what it is with First Person Shooters and young kids, but something just clicks with them. Isn’t this amazing?
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Archive for July 1st, 2010
It’s official, Final Fantasy XIV will be hitting the PC on September 30. Can’t wait that long? If you buy the the collector’s edition you’ll be able to lose yourself in Eorzea a whole eight days earlier starting on September 22. Even more impatient? We hear the PC beta will be kicking off in early July.
PlayStation 3 fans are being forced to have patience as there has been no word of a release for the console version. Hit the jump to find out exactly what the PC collector’s edition has!
According to Gametrailers.com the upcoming game in the Fable franchise, Fable III, will also be distributed episodically through downloadable chapters. This is going to be done as a strategy to generate support for the game. Since the Fable 2 episodic plan managed to garner an extra $15 million in revenue for Fable II.
Just like the Fable 2 plan the first episode of Fable III will be completely free, with the option to pay for the following chapter or the entire package. Molyneux is a big supporter of offering a free chapter over a simple demo as Molyneux was quoted below.
“It supports this freemium idea,” he said. “It gets around this horrible concept of demos. Anyone out there who thinks a demo is a good idea is crazy. It’s never a good idea, because demos are usually done at the end of a game and they require an enormous amount of design talent to make a demo. The other thing is you’re more likely to satisfying the curiosity of a user rather than entice them to play more.”
So Fable III will be distributed online, does that mean that a disc version will no longer be available? How do you feel about this episodic download ploy that game companies have been trying out?
