World of Tanks Boss Unhappy About Xbox Live Gold Requirement

[Deshin]

Seeing as no one else has said it I'll go ahead and say it.

Final Fantasy XI, the mmo game on the PC, PS2, and Xbox 360, does not require a Gold account to play online. You can play online to your heart's content with just a Silver subscription. Sure the game itself has a monthly fee but it's entirely dictated and paid to Square Enix.

So saying, "They cannot drop it for us because they would have to drop it for everyone and it would be a total mess for them," Kislyi told GamesIndustry." is bullshit.

 

[Ken Sapp]

"We are an entertainment company and we have to cater to our players whatever they use," he said. "If you want to play World of Tanks on console, we have to make it possible for you."

That is how every successful game company should be doing business. They should always be saying to themselves "What do we need to do to get customers to want to give us their money?" and then " How can we do it and still make a profit without pissing off our customers?"

As far as the Gold subscription....

Everything multiplayer on XBox Live requires a Gold subscription to access. It is a necessary evil to be on the platform, OTOH anyone interested in playing WoT on XBox Live probably already has a Gold subscription and would thus not be required to pay any additional fee (relatively speaking) to play WoT on the console. Anyone without a Gold subscription, with the obvious exception of those who can't afford it of course, probably isn't interested in most online multiplayer games anyway. Personally, I just like the fact that the company is trying to go where it thinks it may find customers without abandoning those it already has. Too often companies, whether due to arrogance or poorly considered exclusivity deals, try to force customers to go where they want them to be rather than catering to the people that purchase the games.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well at least he has the guts to call MS of all conglomerates out on something (that is a rather small club), but you can't give him too much credit as he still hasn't got the stones to stand firm and just not do business with them.

 

[Glaice]

I'd say refuse to unless they pull back the Gold requirements.

 

[uchytjes]

Seeing as no one else has said it I'll go ahead and say it.

Final Fantasy XI, the mmo game on the PC, PS2, and Xbox 360, does not require a Gold account to play online. You can play online to your heart's content with just a Silver subscription. Sure the game itself has a monthly fee but it's entirely dictated and paid to Square Enix.

So saying, "They cannot drop it for us because they would have to drop it for everyone and it would be a total mess for them," Kislyi told GamesIndustry." is bullshit.

Well. That is just stupid. Also, wouldn't it be good business practice to allow F2P games on without the need for gold accounts? Y'know, in order to make it more attractive to other F2P games?

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

This is the stealthy game that secretly makes as much or more money than WoW, right?