ich hab noch nie ein f2p titel angezockt , nicht mal diese rotzigen facebook games. als hardcore gamer sind mir die zu "fastfood".
und dieses ingame geld ausgeben verachte ich genauso. ich zahl lieber vollpreis und hab alles on disc

Hier gehts nicht um die Facebook Games, sondern, darum, dass Generell eine Umstellung auf F2P stattfinden wird. F2P hat den schlechten Beigeschmack von Casual und schlecht produziert schon längst abgelegt. Wer sich Hardcore-Gamer nennt, und noch nie F2P á la Teamfortress 2 oder Tribes Ascend gezockt hat, sollte sich zwei mal überlegen, ob ihm da nicht was entgeht.

Spicy Horse boss American McGee has said the traditional console model will not survice, and that his free-to-play, web-based games are generating more money for the company that the EA-published Alice: Madness Returns “ever did”.

“Earning out on a console title is like digging out from under an avalanche,” he told Game Informer.

“If you don’t get out from under the advances within a very short period of time it’s all over. F2P offers an opportunity to release something into the wild and improve it continually until it returns a profit. Making good on the opportunity is in no way guaranteed, but the option is there. This all being the case, we’ve already seen our online F2P games generate more profit and a better ROI than [Alice: Madness Returns] ever did, or likely will.”

McGee was assured in his assessment of the current console model: it won’t work going forward.

“Though the console market extracted two decades of profit and mindshare from Western developers and consumers, it was unsustainable from inception,” he said.

“Looked at from the perspective of external markets where consoles aren’t the foundation of the gaming ecosystem, the idea of physical media (discs) and fixed location gaming (consoles) now seems anachronistic.

“But it’s worth examining where the money flowed in a market where consoles dominated and how they helped consolidate power among a handful of publishers. The transition we’re now seeing is a revolution of the model that will lead to greater freedom for future publishers, developers and consumers.”

Spicy Horsew publishes several web-based F2P games, such as BigHeadBash. The Shanghai-based studio employs 50 people, and has three original games in development.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Electronic-Arts-verklagt-Zynga-1660210.html

interessanter artikel.... sollte jeder hier mal lesen
"Zynga kommt zwar dank der riesigen Facebook-Plattform auf 274 Millionen Spieler im Monat, doch nur wenige von ihnen geben Geld aus – und zuletzt schien die Bereitschaft dazu auch noch zu sinken."