免费模式成游戏业大势所趋

    打造了《孤岛惊魂》（Far Cry）和《孤岛危机》（Crysis）系列的德国游戏开发商Crytek公司推出了采用免费游戏模式、具有游戏机品质的游戏，比如现代军事射击游戏《战争前线》。公司CEO赛瓦特•耶里认为，免费游戏的质量将在3年内媲美游戏机游戏。Crytek公司将G-Face平台上发布《战争前线》。这个新平台将支持很多新游戏，包括来自其他开发商的游戏。

    “今后5年，硬核游戏将走向社交化，其中大多数将是免费游戏，”耶里说。“以后我们所有的网络游戏都将作为社交硬核游戏来开发。我们将向其他想要发布免费游戏的开发商开放G-Face平台。”

    索尼PS3已经支持了免费游戏，比如CCP Games公司的太空射击游戏《DUST 514》以及索尼在线娱乐公司的《DC Universe Online》和《Free Realms》。索尼还向独立开放商提供了支持，比如僵尸工作室的PS4次时代免费射击游戏《黑光：惩罚》（Blacklight: Retribution）。预计索尼和微软（Microsoft）将在E3游戏展上发布其他的次时代游戏。

    帕切特说，传统的游戏机游戏不会消失，但向免费游戏模式的转变毋庸置疑，越来越多的游戏开发商更加卖力地为这个新兴领域开发高品质的游戏。一旦玩家可以选择免费玩他们喜欢的游戏还是花费60美元获得类似的体验，这种转变的影响将改变所有人的游戏体验。（财富中文网）

    译者：千牛絮

    Crytek, the German developer that originated game franchises like Far Cry and Crysis, is embracing F2P with console-quality games like the modern military shooter, Warface. CevatYerli, CEO and president of Crytek, believes within three years F2P will rival the console games space from a quality level. Crytek will launch Warface on G-Face, a new platform that will support many new games, including from other developers.

    "Over the next five years the core games are going to be social, and most of them will be F2P," said Yerli. "All of our IPs moving forward are being developed as social core games, and we're going to open the G-Face platform to other developers who want to launch F2P games."

    Sony has already supported F2P games like CCP Games' space shooter DUST 514 and SOE'sDC Universe Online and Free Realms on PS3. The game maker is supporting independent developers like Zombie Studios on PlayStation 4 with Blacklight: Retribution, a next-gen F2P shooter. At E3, additional next-gen games are expected to be announced by both Sony and Microsoft (MSFT).

    While Pachter said traditional console games aren't going away, there's definitely a pendulum shift towards F2P as more game makers develop deeper, quality titles for this emerging space. Once gamers are given a choice of playing for free or paying $60 for a similar experience in their favorite genres, the impact of this shift could change the game for everyone.