I seriously don’t know whether Blizzard and Zenimax Online will have to embrace the free-to-play model – and abandon their subscription plans – but by now it’s pretty obvious that F2P is the future for all MMORPG titles. PlanetSide 1 has abandoned its subscription model and here comes Defiance to join the F2P bandwagon.
As Trion Worlds revealed:
“Today we’re excited to announce that Trion Worlds’ post-apocalyptic massively co-op online cyberwestern shooter will be adding a new descriptor to its already meaty description: Defiance is going to become free-to-play. Starting June 4 on PC and mid-July on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, players will be able to download the Defiance client and experience the entire Bay Area storyline, original end-game content, and future missions completely for free.”
It will be interesting to see what will happen with other MMORPGs that are currently stuck to the old and dated subscription system.
As Trion Worlds claimed, those who have already purchased the game will enjoy more character slots, loadouts, ark keycode capacity, and inventory slots than free-to-play accounts.
Kudos to our reader ‘Xeizell Raphael’ for informing us!
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Never played it but I’m playing more and more F2P as time goes by…yesterday I downloaded Neverwinter (still have to play it though), I play Planetside 2, Warframe, War Thunder, Path of Exile, Survarium (closed beta), RaceRoom Racing Experience, Auto Club Revolution, Hawken, Loadout.
And there are some that I tried but were bad or “pay to win” so I ended deleting them of course.
But you can find really good games, some gets boring fast but the ones I like the most or suit my play style are the ones in where I put some money. (mostly for cosmetics stuff and such)
I’ll try this game, I know is not that great but what gives.
Of your list I’ve played War Thunder, Hawken, Planetside 2 and Loadout while beyond that I’ve played Moon Cracker and Drakensang Online. Those are among the longest I’ve dedicated myself to any F2P, Loadout especially.
Unfortunately, what you said is true: they get boring very fast. I can see their potential but couldn’t escape the feeling of horrible grinding. I wanted to build my personal airforce of Japanese WW2 aircraft in War Thunder but since I need to re-grind all over again for every upgrade per aircraft and their variants…I haven’t touched it again.
Yeah some get boring because of that but some are just good and you can keep playing then for what they are.
For example Planetside 2 is a great shooter and its scale is what makes it for me (Battlefield player for year until BF3, tried BF4 and moved fully into Planetside 2).
War Thunder is like playing Wings of Prey (which I have) or IL 2…if you like to fly the game has the graphics and the gameplay.
Hawken is a good mech arena type shooter with some objectives which makes it more dynamic…I think it is simple but it gives you the feeling of being in a mech for sure.
Warframe is really good when it comes to graphics and such but I don’t know…it gets boring real fast (I play it since the closed beta, maybe is just because of that). Still they keep adding content to it so you can keep going.
Path of Exile like others say, in some ways is better than Diablo III (though Diablo has the edge when it comes to minimal details and overall quality, let´s say production value), but PoE has that clean gameplay and cool/dark story that is the actual core of these type of games.
Survarium is still a work in progress but the game (once they solve all the problems is having and add the actual interesting parts of it like free play) itself keeps calling me to go and play it, even by being a mere PvP in small maps at the moment…but the sound, graphics, the way guns feel and its mechanics (and again what it is coming) makes it great.
Loadout for me is quite repetitive, it was fun the very first 3 or 4 rounds…then I was bored from it…I don’t like TF2 and that kind of games though…I like the humour in it, the art style, customization but that’s it. Running, jumping, killing, dying…no more.
And etc.
Repetitive gameplay pretty much what killed most of the games in the list for me. So much so that in just mere minutes after trying Tribes Ascend, I quit and uninstalled it. Even worse is Warframe. I installed it, let it patch itself, made an account and said to my self I’ll try it out later. That was months ago.
Hawken and Loadout were pretty fun but I just can’t find any good reason or motivation to get back to them.
Path Of Exile is actually really well done, thats a great F2P that Diablo 3 should of been lol.
Agreed. Really a great game. 😉
Next year, around the same time, TESO will be in the same situation.
came to say that 😀 hope its true , teso would be awesome for f2p , right now , not much.
I played during the beta, but never really had the time to get into it when it was released. But then hey had a free weekend through Steam, and I did enjoy my time. I’m not sure how it would fare in the long run so I did not buy it, but I will definitely give it a proper try come June.
I bought this game on steam sales for $5. At first it was ok but got quite boring after not long to be honest.
I’ll just stick with the TV series.
Same here, drop $5 on this game. Had fun for a couple weeks so i can’t complain. Never finish the main story though because it was awfully boring. Tried watching the show too, got half way through the season and gave up… too cheesy and full of sci-fi cliche.
I heard this is a very good and underrated game, was thinking of buying on a steam sale but f2p is great!