Nintendo Considering Free-to-Play for New Franchises

[Bladexdsl]

this is what I want : a game like rune factory except online. make that Nintendo and I'll BUY it

 

[Tekken179]

This is what I wanted to hear knowing they won't harm their current big characters/games in this way, but satisfied enough with the idea of them bringing in new games, earthbound MMO for 3DS *cough*

 

[TripleSMoon]

This is what I wanted to hear knowing they won't harm their current big characters/games in this way, but satisfied enough with the idea of them bringing in new games, earthbound MMO for 3DS *cough*

Again, it's a new IP, not a pre-existing one. Why do people keep missing that part in the OP?

 

[Tekken179]

My comment in regards to Earthbound was hardly to be taking seriously. Hence the *cough*, I missed no parts.

 

[TripleSMoon]

My comment in regards to Earthbound was hardly to be taking seriously. Hence the *cough*, I missed no parts.

Ah, nevermind then.

 

[Fluto]

It could be like PlayStation home but with miis.

 

[zachtheninja]

If you can do everything that requires payment through non-payment (Like jetpack joyride), or if the payment items are exclusively cosmetic, then it might be ok. However, Nintendo needs to avoid the refill an "action bar" every five secounds by spending nintendo-coins plan.

 

[ferofax]

You guys seem to be forgetting something. Nintendo's current model is with DLC -- you buy the game, get it complete, but you can buy stuff on the side to add stuff to the game. But you BUY the game first.

Free-to-play usually works because the game is FREE, not only to play, but also to get/download. The only problem thereafter is whether how much of the actual content is accessible without requiring to pay exorbitant amounts of cash.

If you can hit a sweet spot on amount of free content versus amount of paid content, then it'll be all good.

EDIT: I totally forgot, this model of F2P is outdated. Most F2P games today cost a tidy bunch to get on top of the in-game transactions.

 

[OrGoN3]

Source please?

http://www.computerandvideogames.co...me-software/?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS

http://allthingsd.com/20110615/nintendos-iwata-asks-can-free-games-be-sustained-over-the-long-term/

He was quoted saying that the free-to-play business model goes against Nintendo's current business model.

I had thought he was quoted again more recently, but I'm too lazy right now to dig any deeper.

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

Boo! If Nintendo does this they'll lose all the respect I have left for them. Imagine buying a pokeball with really money and trying to catch a pokemon only for it to break free, then you just lost money. Kinda like gambling...

 

[BenRK]

If Nintendo is smart about this and does it responsibly and not like EA and Zynga and fricken everyone else, then I'm cool with it.

 

[TripleSMoon]

Why is this such a big deal to everyone? Good grief, Nintendo is CONSIDERING FTP for new franchises. It's not like they're converting all their current IPs to FTP with pay to win. If you dont like FTP, you can just ignore the new IP, like I probably will. sheesh...

 

[Guild McCommunist]

I just don't see why people hate F2P. They see it and go "IT GETS RIDICULOUS WHEN YOU START HAVING TO PAY TO UNLOCK CONTENT." Well no shit you do, you pay to unlock content when you buy a normal retail game. In F2P, difference is some content is free, other content has a price tag if you want to play it. Oh no, the horror. I mean it does have some issues, like turning into pay2win, but in general it's no worse than buying a regular, full, $60 retail game.

It's a new breakthrough in gaming and it's quite honestly going to be around for a while. I thought people would be glad that Nintendo is adopting some new advancements considering they're a bit notorious for doing the opposite.

 

[Plstic]

No. I hate Microtransactions, What ever happened to buy the game once and you own the game forever? It seems like every game company is going this way which is complete shit.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

No. I hate Microtransactions, What ever happened to buy the game once and you own the game forever? It seems like every game company is going this way which is complete shit.

What's so bad about getting a game for free and paying what you want in terms of content as opposed to buying a whole game for a set price?

 

[Eerpow]

What's so bad about getting a game for free and paying what you want in terms of content as opposed to buying a whole game for a set price?

Well to be fair it makes things harder, small payments can be somewhat a pain in ass plus it's harder to keep track on what you spend for some people I guess, in any case one payment beats making lots of small ones usually, even more so if you can't add funds easily. Also one reason why people hate this and DLC is because they want to own the full game and have the full game stored in their collection for years to come, they want to be able to sell and buy the full games in the future. So they have a good enough reason to not like it in some cases I suppose.

 

[FAST6191]

A lack of small payments probably falls at the feet of credit card companies and other payment transaction companies.

Transient games vs a single item.... the former is nothing new (see much of the Sega Meganet library which did include things like addon stories for Phantasy Star 2). Personally I am quite interested to see what can be made under the model for it has done wonders for general software development.

 

[TripleSMoon]

The only reason I don't really care much for F2P is, frankly, I don't like dealing with microtransactions. That's not to say "oh, I don't want to pay to unlock content," it's just that I don't like how complicated it is. Regardless of how much it costs, I like to just buy something, pay the full price, and be done with it. It's the same reason I hate monthly subscriptions, like Spotify, as opposed to stuff like Xbox Live, which you only pay for once a year. It's less complicated and I don't have to worry about checking my funds, etc after I initially pay because I already covered everything. That's just my personal preference.

tl;dr I'm too lazy to deal with microtransactions.

 

[BORTZ]

I dont know. Done right, I wont have a problem with it, but most F2P games lose my interest in less than 24 hours.