Developer CCP, the ones responsible for bringing you this game, just announced that the game will be totally free to play for PS3. This comes after their recent confirmation that there is no need for a cover price for the game. More info from an interview with Eurogamer after the break.
Via Eurogamer:
CCP intended to convert that original cover charge to in-game Aurum credits for you to spend at the micro-transaction store. “And we probably will still have some kind of pack like that,” Laurino added. This will be Starter Pack-like offer, but won’t be necessary to play Dust 514.
“It’s very important as we take steps into this topic to unambiguously state that it is not a pay to win game,” Laurino pressed on. “There is no micro-transaction that you can do that gives you an unfair advantage over someone who hasn’t paid anything. It’s the classic micro-transaction dynamic of, ‘I can pay and get this item,’ or, ‘I can invest my time and get this item.’ But neither of those options will give me an unfair advantage over the other.”
Check out the rest of the interview, here.
It’s awesome that more developers are bringing the free to play model to consoles. Hopefully some “other” developers learn from this.
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