Dev responds to claims there's "no such thing as a casual shooter fan"
"EA's free-to-play titles are shutting down in 90 days."
I always meant to check out Battlefield Heroes, but I always ended up turning back to Team Fortress 2. I guess I'm not the only one.
Yeh as far ad f2p goes the only ones I ever find myself going back to are Team Fortress 2 and Robocraft. Grow tired too quickly of everything else.
Just simply means EA's cash flow isn't flowing as much as they wanted. This works for sequels but can ruin certain games permanently!
I have a friend who recently picked up a PS3 (for the first time) with a bunch of games, one of them being Lord of the Rings Conquest (EA title). She was disappointed to discover that MP in Conquest doesn't work at all. Turns out the servers shut down a long time ago and as a result, MP is completely crippled on consoles (except on PC, via Tunngle).
I'd say the same. I went as far as to get ready/sign up but never got around to actually playing it.
It actually wasn't bad for a free to play game. Probably one of the best f2p racing games I've ever played.
From what I heard there was a lot of cheating going on. Maybe there shutting it down due to this?
Such a good feeling to know a game I'm still playing 3 and a half years later is still making enough money to keep going for many years yet :)
I dont wish that they were gone but in against many of their practices. Like what they did with BF4 for example or what they did with Hardline.
Just because EA gave me Plant Vs Zombies for free I still am able to disagree with them.
Easy Studios - the other guys that make Battlefield games - have introduced the classic Battlefield game mode Rush in Battlefield Play4Free. The game mode is live as of this morning, ready to play right now.
Rush Mode, if you're not familiar with it, is an objective-based game mode in which players take turns defending and attacking points on the map. The defending team begins with 2 M-COM stations that need to be defended, while the attacking team is bent on destroying them. Attackers can either successfully plant charges on the M-COM stations or inflict enough heavy damage to put them out of commision.
First-Person and Third-Person Shooters quickly became one of the most appreciated subgenres in the free to play segment, offering the great quality usually seen in some triple-A titles. Better still, some of those triple-A games are gradually becoming free, such as Team Fortress 2 or APB: Reloaded.
Here is a great Top 10 of Free to Play Shooters for 2012.
... and I pretty much like everything as long as it's a good game.
I can enjoy a good shooter, then go to Super Meat Boy for some excellent platforming, then go to ilomilo for a great cute puzzle-game, then turn on my PC for some Sim City 4, etc etc.
I love pretty much every genre. Sports, driving, RPG/Adventures, sandbox, whatever.
What's really naive is swinging around a bulb on a cone and still believing you're being hardcore...i mean just LOL. In fact any sort of behaviour that involves being plastered in front of a tv/monitor for hours on end controlling a make-believe world is anything but hardcore.
We're all geeks, there's no such thing as a hardcore geek.
Gaming may have become more mainstream in the last 2 gens but let us not kid ourselves this hobby of ours is not "cool"
When you play a game versus other people, you become competitive. Not competitive in terms of e-sport and the alike, but competitive as in you want to win. If you don't win, you want to improve, so that the next match you will have a better chance. That isn't "casual". Casual is when you enjoy a game without care if you win or not. I have not yet met a FPS gamer that didn't care if they won.
FPS gamers are hardcore. They are competitive. Especially the PC crowd.
Now, what this guy needs to understand, is that the "Casual" players he insist exists, is somewhat true, but they don't spread the word of his game, they don't spend hours and hours playing and report bugs and form a community. They don't come to sites as N4G and post articles.
You might call the comment "Naive", but if I made a game like Battle: LA, I wouldn't speak loud of being Naive. Your product is Naive and it's bad. Take a look at your reviews and look in the mirror before posting anything concerning hardcore gaming.
I think the majority of people who play shooters are among some of the most casual gamers there are. They only play the one genre (the shooter more often then not) they aren't hugely involved in gaming culture and community and they will play really on weekends for a few hours with friends. Just because the game involves guns doesn't really mean people who play it are core gamers.
Core gamers in my eye's are the people who keep up with gaming culture, play a vast selection of genres and will spend a lot of time gaming not just on-line (which has grabbed the attention of the mass)but sinking time into single player experiences and been invested in a world not just a rank.
The word casual is too associated with family games when in fact it really should mean gamers who play a limited selection of genres for a small amount of time and are relatively ignorant to gaming culture, news etc.
You wouldn't call someone who watched action films a hardcore film watcher and someone who watched Pixar films a casual film watcher. They just watch films and aren't invested in the news, inner workings and community that comes along with it.
@christiangamer rofl and you worship a god lmao....physics created physics will destoyeth