Be Excellent To Each Other

From the Microsoft E3 briefing

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Where do I send my money?

Couldn't care any less than I do night now. It was always a terrible fighting game.

Note: not made by Rare. Made by Double Helix games, producers of such memorable smash-hits as:

That's probably a good thing as I can't remember the last good game that Rare made... But, Double Helix? Yeah, good luck to them!

HAHAHHAHA

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/11/ ... aunch-game

"Killer Instinct is a day-one digital-only release on Xbox One, and features -- get this -- one character. Jago is free to play on launch day. Everyone else -- unspecified returning characters as well as original fighters -- will cost money. Price is to-be-determined (of course)."

LOLZ!

FFS !

And with that.. I'm out.

Is that such a bad thing? The idea of being able to play the game with a single character for free and then just ponying up if you want the unlock the other characters (i.e. get the rest of the game) really just means you're getting a meaty demo of the game for free. Obviously the pricing could be bullshit and they should be castigated for that specifically if it goes that way but is the concept itself so bad?

COMING SOON! UNLOCK YOUR FIGHTER'S LOW PUNCH! ONLY £3.99!

You'd think not, but the free to play market on iOS is almost entirely grindy pseudo-game Zynga-esque bullshit. It is to be treated with extreme suspicion, I reckon.

Or they could just do what everyone else does and release a demo?

Demos mess up game sales. They can't have people knowing what the games are like before they are on sale. so no demos or early reviews.

I hate that kind of F2P bullshit as much as the next guy and consider it a real blight on mobile gaming as the Android side of things is much the same; in this case though if the price to 'unlock' the rest of the content is reasonable then it really is just a game with a very good demo. Being suspicious is the correct stance but everyone's responding here as if they've already fucked up which is a bit premature I reckon is all.



As I say, depending on the unlock price it's possible that's all this amounts to. I'll happily condemn them if they fuck it up (and my posting this pretty much guarantees they will if only to make me look like a tit!) but it's worth waiting until then surely?

What about demos that go live the same day the game goes on sale, like every single XBLA game ever?

I was quoting some woman, from a games company who said something like that some time recently.

I trust you had this person destroyed?

In an attempt to make this even more confusing at Gamescom Microsoft announced that the game will launch with only 6 playable characters and no story mode (so online battles only) - and then other characters will be added in Feb or March next year

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/08/20/g ... -explained

Sounds much more like they cant finish it in time but need to get games out - I know we dont have a launch date for the Xbox one yet , but i'm getting worried that there will not actually be any launch games to go with it ?