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Is Free-to-Play the Future of Console Gaming? | Total Revue

Total Revue: The gaming industry is in a period of transition as console systems embrace the digital world through such platforms like Xbox LIVE and the Sony Entertainment Network. Over the years, so have gamers' behaviour into purchasing titles as day one patches became the norm and retail prices tailed off quickly.

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KrisButtar4071d ago

Nice read, I believe free to play has arrived and is here to stay, how far it goes will depend on the gamers voting with their wallets. I don't believe it's going to take over but it will stay as a part of gaming not the whole.

PhoenixRoar4070d ago

I'm glad to know you enjoyed reading it.

The slow shift towards free-to-play is both a concerning one but also an opportunity. How it evolves and breaks down the 'pay to win' stigma is one of the biggest hurdles however.

KrisButtar4070d ago (Edited 4070d ago )

as annoying as "pay to win" is, it is here to stay, and how it evolves is pretty simple in my eyes, they are going to start making games where the "grinding" is so brutal, that you will feel like you have no choice but to pay. because publishers are greedy. i think that the microtransactions for levels,xp,weapon slots, are just the start of it, those "cheats" over time are going to get bigger and bigger, which will encourage people to "pay"

like you saying about multiplayer games(uncharted3), i believe all online multiplayer games are going to go that way, and its why publishers tack on multiplayer for even single player games(tomb raider), and they want to keep the "pay to win" stigma because with that in place, new players will have to pay after joining just to stand a chance. i have only played splitscreen multiplayer(no internet @ home) and i have noticed that even splitscreen multiplayer games are getting less common, but increasing online multiplayer only, which can enforce a "pay to win" stigma, and again its all about the money.

thats how far i see it going. i see it as an always online multiplayer game, where it becomes a problem.

FAT MAN GO BOOM4070d ago

No such thing as free to play... it is pay to win...

this is such a scam... a get rich BS scam...

I am done buying EA games I will buy no games with Micro transactions... That is nothing what free to play is ....

One giant micro transactions pay to win... game..

cyril sneer4070d ago

@FAT MAN

Not all free to play games are pay to win.Path of exile being one of them.

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PUBG Team Considered Bringing Back OG Bugs for Erangel Classic Event

In a Game Rant interview, PUBG's Taehyun Kim explains how the team considered bringing back old lovable bugs in the Erangel Classic event.

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Just Where is Project Awakening?

After years of development, Project Awakening is still nowhere to be seen. What exactly is going on?

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ApocalypseShadow12h ago(Edited 11h ago)

I was impressed with the trailer and hoped to find out more and then it fell off the map with no new information. Not sure if it's vaporware or not but I stopped thinking about it and moved on. Maybe it was moved to a new and improved engine, moved to PS5 development and suffers the long Dev times that many games had/have suffered from lately. Who knows. But we'll see.

As for gaming bolt, that video was trash. A long winded video that says nothing for 7 minutes going back and forth on it may or may not still exist and just kept going and going and going trying to produce an informative video with barely any information. Like an article with a word quota that's just paragraphs of nothing. Showing me that they haven't gotten any better at game journalism. If we can even call it that.

Eonjay55m ago(Edited 55m ago)

Gaming bolt is a low effort scam that only exists to collect ad revenue. They don't play the games they review either and everybody knows

XiNatsuDragnel10h ago

I'm interested in project awakening still

lodossrage6h ago

One of the directors for the game already said that game was still being worked on just last month....

https://80.lv/articles/proj...

DOMination-3h ago

It's coming out next year with Deep Down, Agent and Pragmata!

Eonjay58m ago

Completely forgot about Pragmata!. You know what's gunny is that Deep Down was a Vspcom property too. It's like once generation one of Caps games ho awol

Christopher3h ago

It's trying to not go woke. Okay, I'll see myself out.

coolfool58m ago

Don't get people started! ;-)

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