Uncharted 3 won’t offer the first free-to-play shooter experience on the PlayStation 3 (that honor belongs to Dust 514, which is currently in open beta), but it’s interesting to see Sony commit one of its biggest franchises to a pricing format that we usually see on PC games. Uncharted 3 Game of the Year Digital Version: $39.99.Competitive multiplayer with level 15 cap: free.Naught Dog provided GamesBeat with some samples of how the pricing will work: We wanted to give the lowest barrier of entry possible to the most number of people, and we think the free-to-play option is the way to do it.”
Not only do you have to buy the game for a fair amount of money, but then you have to jump into an online component as well. The barrier of entry to multiplayer, in general, is very high. “We have half a million people playing a month, so this isn’t some sort of grab where we’re like, ‘Oh my god, the game’s dying!’ We think we offer something very unique. “The player base is vibrant,” said Richmond. Nor will it allow players to buy temporary boosts that double the amount of experience or money they earn in a certain amount of time. While many free-to-play titles let users exchange real money for in-game currency (which, ironically, is actual dollars in Uncharted 3), Naughty Dog isn’t planning a similar feature. Players can also buy certain items separately via microtransactions, including characters and guns (but not the mods that make weapons more powerful. “So if you play hundreds of hours of the free-to-play and are like, ‘You know, I really want to get all the stuff that I earned,’ then the second you pay for that level unlock you get everything that you earned over those hours.” “But we actually keep track of the unlocks,” Richmond told GamesBeat. But even though you stop earning unlocks, you can keep playing the game, or you can pay to have the level cap increased or removed. Earning levels is how you access extra content like guns and characters.
Naughty Dog’s solution is to offer the multiplayer component for free with a level cap at 15.
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