Comments on: New consoles going FTP?

By: chip

chip — Tue, 14 May 2013 10:40:50 +0000

Well, I already have plans to get the new PS4. F2P is a nice bonus for something I had already planned on getting.

By: psycros

psycros — Sun, 12 May 2013 23:51:57 +0000

I laugh at these stupid, greedy companies. Please, drive more gamers back to the PC and render yourselves irrelevant. We’ll start seeing more games born on PC and taking full advantage of the superior hardware and user experience.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 12 May 2013 22:21:30 +0000

FTP doesn’t do much for me, but it makes sense to have it available on consoles as well as PCs. Some FTP games do fremium right, but a many are just pay2win (with varying degrees of shamelessness), and that sends me packing. Though, I can see certain MOBAs/ARPGs would benefit from being on a console with console controls.

I just hope this doesn’t mean that the single player aspect of games is going to go neglected next generation. I don’t always want to spend my gaming time in an online fragbox or group grind-fest.

By: Argos

Argos — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:02:20 +0000

I am not into FTP if it means any one of these things: always online, multi player only, MMO.
Not interested in any of that.

By: Marco

Marco — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:55:20 +0000

When someone says FTP, I think file transfer protocol.

In any case, I’m hoping on two things for next gen consoles:

1. Heavily concentrate on digital distribution of all games and (most importantly),
2. Apply heavy price discounts to those games (e.g. prices relfected in Steam, Gamersgate, Greenmangaming, etc).

If that can be done, I bet piracy will go down and game sales will go up. I can’t even remember the last time I used my optical drive to install software on my PC. The same should be done against consoles.