The future of "free-to-play" and "freemium" games on the XBOX 360 may be closer than we think. Microsoft now has its hand in the only two free-to-play games on the XBOX 360. Is this a growing trend or an anomaly?
Great article Thomas. A lot of this logic is what we used to decide on developing Produce Wars instead of many other games that we WANTED to make. No, we don 't expect 127mil, but we recognized that people enjoy Angry Birds, which is what pushed us to approach that ...
I too would like to know this. Also, if you have previously published games that you think would fit well on Nintendo 's platforms, would they let you retroactively publish those games on their service
I think two critical gameplay aspects you leave out are the character leveling and class system, and the gear/loot system. You can have all of the above things, but if your in-game progression system sucks, people won 't even stick around long enough to understand your well-defined over-arching goal, explore ...
