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Ever wish there were free games which people can download instead of demos for consoles?
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 11:40 am
by froggyboy604
Yes, it would be cool if there was a free game marketplace to let people download free games online like for PC games which are free like Maple Story, Gunbound, and Aeria games.
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:14 am
by Skeithex
it would be, but a lot of time and work goes into a game so a lot of free games could hurt the market.
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:21 am
by froggyboy604
True, but the latest trend in free games is selling game money with real money like in Aeria Games, Farmville, Second Life, Maple Story where you spend a few dollars in real money, and get virtual money to spend in the game to buy virtual items for your character instead of spending countless hours leveling up and doing tasks to get virtual money for free in games.
But, you need a huge fan base to get back the money spent making the games.
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:24 pm
by Skeithex
it's not easy to do that, you have to be a likable person to make money back on a game. a example would be billy vs snakeman and McM is so cool people are willing to give money for his game.
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:40 pm
by froggyboy604
Indeed, I bet Billy vs Snakeman also make some money on advertising on his site.
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:06 pm
by Sshadow
There are many cases of free gaming on the PC that I bet could make it worthwhile on consoles. However I imagine a big part of that is up to the console makers themselves. I imagine it would hurt there bottom line if there started to be free games made for their console.