Monday, June 27, 2011

Xbox 360: Microsoft Works on a free-to-play model?

The greed-is-cool-age are free, gratis and for nothing that the measure of all things. In the gaming industry is the appropriate magic formula: Free-to-play. In this model, each producer to finance their games for free, and available exclusively on the sale of items such as new clothes, weapons or potions in the game - so-called micro-transactions.

On the PC, this funding model is now commonplace. Valve announced about mid-June 2011 on the Action Game "" distribute for free for PC. On the gaming consoles, the free-to-play model is not yet used. After one could change this, however. As the business side, announced that Microsoft is working with some game developers at an appropriate service for the Xbox 360 How big is the kernel of truth behind this message is remains unclear.

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