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It will be out in the Fall and free for Xbox Live Gold members! It looks fun!

http://playxbla.com/?p=17374

As far as I can tell, it's online castle siege battles.

It's significantly larger scale than Call of Duty, though, isn't it? And much more my cup of tea than CoD. I'm looking forward to it anyway. Plus I suck at trivia. But I'll take 1 vs 100 back as well.

this is XBLA's first F2P game!

It was announced last year at TGS (Tokyo Game Show) but then went quiet for development. Definitely can see the Japanese influence and how much Asia has embraced the F2P model.

If nothing else, it looks fun. I like the costume quest aesthetics. It's free. They had me at free.

Good news for any xbox360 player. Even if the game is a turd it's a step in the right direction. That being said not sure what all the negativity is about, it seems as every time a new feature is added to xbox live people come out of the wood work to complain.

it's the Internet. people always complain.

Looks like a Fat Princess clone to me. I'm game.

Little slow to the free to play phenomenon MS. Looks like all of the transactions for this game are cosmetic, which I dig. Can play to my heart's content and chip in $5 if I feel like it and get some sweat threads for my virtual doll too.

Free? I have a hunch good items/equipment will be worth MS points.

Woah. Mods went nuts. I guess it's just as well, though. It does make the thread a bit confusing, though….

Originally Posted by Sistros Free? I have a hunch good items/equipment will be worth MS points.

That's kinda the definition of Free 2 Play.

If it's like that I'll be disappointed. I was thinking this was a freebie like that other game was, perhaps with costumes and things for people to buy if they want, but not game changing items/equipment. If it's a free-to-play with money needing to be spent to compete, well then that will suck. I guess we will find out.

there's lots of different types of free to play. It can be something like Farmville. You can get a good experience without ever paying a cent. Or you can get some neat items for small cost. It's like buying stuff for your Xbox avatar but now it's in a game and actually usable. There's an Xbox friend of mine that spends literally $5-10/week on avatar stuff from lightsabers to beach clothing to sunglasses. People do this kind of stuff. It's surreal.

Star Wars: The Old Republic is going to a F2P model after disappointing subscription rates and retention.

If you want to be cheap, you can level up your character by grinding for hours. Or you can pay for items that'll help you level up faster. That's the allure of F2P. It's as cheap or as much as you want it to be. Very rarely (more like extremely rare) do you need to spend money to finish a F2P game.

Where the cost benefits weigh in is will you buy enough to make it cost the same as a full-priced traditional title? For many, it will never.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL7lXydozU8

You take a free game like Tribes: Ascend which is a F2P FPS game. For many people, they'll never even get close to spending $60 like they would've on Call of Duty. I know people that have never spent a penny on Tribes and are having a blast with it. A new major title from Crytek will be a F2P FPS game as well.

Ok, but I hate grindy games. And in this case it's a multiplayer battle, so if some people can get a huge advantage by spending real money, the allure will die off pretty quickly for me. I want a game that is a benefit for paying for Gold membership, which already rakes in lots of cash for them, not a cash cow in its own right on top of Gold membership. I.e. like that other game, which is where I was going with that comparison, but maybe that comparison was never even close to right. Well, I'm still holding out hope that I was right. We will find out.

grindy games are uber popular. you grind in Mass Effect. you grind in Skyrim. you grind in Minecraft. heck, you have to grind to level up your abilities in Gears of War 3 horde.

Yes, it's always a challenge for the developer to get the right balance. It's their job and if they make it so that people who pay are at a distinct advantage, the developer is killing their own product. But years after doing this kind of stuff, many developers have gotten it right.

But let's take a fantasy scenario? What if you could buy a lightsaber for your character for $2? While it only doles out the same hit damage as a free mace, I'm sure a lot of people would pay $2 for that lightsaber just for the cool look of slicing through people even though it doesn't give a competitive advantage.

Or how about a Gears of War 3? Right now, you have to play a ton of horde in order to level up to the max ability for your silverback. And even once you level up the ability, it still takes a ton of cash just to be able to purchase it. How about buying the max ability for $2? That person wouldn't be at an advantage over a normal person because the restriction of needing a ton of cash to purchase it would still be there. That $2 wouldn't negate the skill needed to kill enough people to accumulate enough cash to afford that fantastical silverback. All that $2 would save you is the weeks or months of grinding to reach the ability to buy the best silverback.

I don't want to threadjack but there's another F2P game coming out and it's an action game (in the vein of God of War) called Ascend: New Gods:

http://www.xblafans.com/wp-content/u...ods-Combat.jpg

A beta for this just came out to people in the Fall Update Public Beta. Navigate to the Beta tab and click 'more'. Should have a picture of Happy Wars, just click and download.

its a cute game and they have multiple mechanics to get people items they would probably spend in game $ or MSP for, and it feels like an arcade game. No harm, no foul, will be interesting to see what happens with it

its cool. played the beta last night. seems alot like fat princess. but thats not a bad thing.

matchmaking doesnt work for me, gets stuck. oh well ill try again tomorrow

I haven't finished the tutorial and I'm not sure I'll play it much more.