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Microsoft First, "No, Really" Free-To-Play Title: Happy Wars

Posted on Friday, August 24 @ 14:06:20 Eastern by


Microsoft has been flirting with the idea of free-to-play titles for an excruciatingly long time, but just when we thought they would abandon the concept entirely and continue to force developers to make all DLC cost something.

So it is with a surprise that Play XBLA has announced Happy Wars, the first free-to-play, "large-scale" multiplayer action game (so not "MMO"?) that pairs 30 players from around the world for some fantastical castle-defending action. Available in Autum 2012, the downloadable title will be available for all Xbox LIVE Gold members and will fund the developer through the usual microtransactions, mainly for costume aesthetics.

Hopefully, this means that F2P developers like Nexon America can finally submit their titles and even enhance their existing titles like Dungeon Fighter Live, which would be incredible if it was able to include the free content from the deeper PC version.

What other F2P titles would you want to see Microsoft bring to the console?
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Tags:   Microsoft, Free-To-Play, XBLA


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  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Aug 24th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
    I'd just like to see a console MMO. F2P or not.
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  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 25th, 2012 at 11:59 am
    There's a Monster Hunter MMO for 360 in Japan (of all places) and DC Universe for PS3.

    There are a few more on PS3, some only available overseas.
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  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Aug 24th, 2012 at 10:47 pm
    Final fantasy was mmo on ps2 I don't remember how that turned out and there was a mmofps called Huxley that was supposed to come out on 360.
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  • moretokes
    moretokes
    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Aug 24th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
    Final fantasy was mmo on ps2 I don't remember how that turned out and there was a mmofps called Huxley that was supposed to come out on 360.
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  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Aug 25th, 2012 at 3:16 am
    I attempted to play FF online on the 360 (they had a 360 version) and the game had this terrible client that was a complete nightmare to use. I think I got a toon to lvl 5 and quit because there was a bug that gave you a read disc error that only fixed with a HDD format. There was also Everquest Online Adventures. Neither games were F2P.
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  • TheJx4
    TheJx4
    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Aug 25th, 2012 at 11:58 am
    This is only technically free-to-play, right? I mean, you have to pay $60 to play online...
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  • spartan317
    spartan317
    Joined: Dec 2005
    Posted: Aug 26th, 2012 at 3:07 am
    as opposed to? its Microsoft. We 360 kids take our victories where we can get them...
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