Command and conquer going free to play

Knap4life

Slovenia333 Posts

August 16 2012 21:17 GMT

EA has released a trailer yesterday showing us a Command and conquer game that will be free to play on the release date. They completely scrapped generals and even single player , focusing mainly on the multiplayer.

I am actually not that surprised by this move seeing so many moba games out there and mmorpgs which use the free to play method and also not to forget End of nations which is another strategy game which is heavy focused on the multiplayer and also free to play.

The question here to ask is if it is a smart move , can free to play rts games be as successful as moba games or mmorpgs?What do you all think?

Skilledblob

Germany3392 Posts

August 16 2012 21:25 GMT

there is allready a discussion about this in the related thread in the gaming section.

aRyuujin

United States5049 Posts

August 16 2012 22:23 GMT

nothing wrong with talking about it in a blog though...
I don't get how they're going to make money off of microtransactions, though. pay $1 and you get a unit? wat?

Brandish

United States339 Posts

August 16 2012 22:41 GMT

is this different from generals 2? or did they scrap generals 2 and just decide to make this

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

August 16 2012 22:46 GMT

On August 17 2012 07:41 Brandish wrote:
is this different from generals 2? or did they scrap generals 2 and just decide to make this

They're using the stuff they already made for Generals 2 to make this rather than make Generals 2 itself.

obesechicken13

United States10467 Posts

August 16 2012 23:10 GMT

I feel like command and conquer really focused too much on the graphics and too little on the gameplay. Methods of harassment are too few and far and certain strategies are just too easy to execute. Fights are messy. building structure is messy. It takes too many bad elements of rts and puts them in what should be a controlled environment.

If they get the social aspect down then the game may do well, but Age of Empires Online tried the same thing.

I liked RA3 because of the women. Generals was all around not a great game. RA2 was probably better in terms of gameplay. Too much catering to the casuals with these "star powers" crap.

On August 17 2012 07:23 aRyuujin wrote:
nothing wrong with talking about it in a blog though...
I don't get how they're going to make money off of microtransactions, though. pay $1 and you get a unit? wat?

Total annihilation did release a new unit every week.
And they can sell specific generals with different powers. It'd be difficult to do the second thing though since there are usually only a few factions in RTS.
Maybe they'll have skins.

BlindKill

Australia1508 Posts

August 17 2012 00:02 GMT

wait soo no more generals 2 ? or generals 2 and then this?

NoobCrunch

79 Posts

August 17 2012 04:04 GMT

I've been looking for a new rts game to play in addition to sc2. I love laddering on sc2 but I just wanted another rts game to play.

End of nations is a complete disaster. That game is terrible. I played that game for like 10 minutes before deciding that it was completely stupid. It reminds me of cnc4: complete shit. It's pretty funny that they have servers and programmers/graphic design and can make a game yet the gameplay is retarded. AOE online is decent although it's super annoying how long it takes to kill buildings and how good base defenses are. You can control group command centers/barracks which is a plus. It also let's you use the shift key just as it is in sc2. It does have serioius problems though. I always have an army advantage and can't win games because the fortresses shit on me. The balance is pretty bad in that game. Can't really micro units in aoe online either. I don't understand why these companies can't just follow the starcraft formula.

Generals or whatever ea is going to release is probably going to be stupid.

The only thing I've seen that's worth noting is company of heroes 2. I haven't played the original but it seems like a decent game. Not really into games without base building though.

Why is sc2 ladder the only game out there?

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

January 12 2013 23:50 GMT

I apologize if this bump is unwelcome, but EA recently held a community summit previewing an early alpha build of their game, and some over-the-shoulder screenshots have come out giving us a rough idea of what they have so far.

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More here:
http://www.commandandconquer.com/forums/showthread.php?8702-Community-Summit-video-analysis

edit: whoops, I didn't realize that this thread was in blogs instead of in the Sports and Games section.

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