{"id":24668,"date":"2013-08-26T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T19:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=24668"},"modified":"2013-08-29T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T02:33:08","slug":"ea-wants-to-make-free-to-play-versions-of-everything-they-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/08\/26\/ea-wants-to-make-free-to-play-versions-of-everything-they-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"EA wants to make free-to-play versions of everything they sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"24668\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bfp4f.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bfp4f.jpg\" alt=\"bfp4f\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24671\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Battlefield Play4Free is the free-to-play version of Battlefield 3. It&#8217;s the Cousin Oliver of EA&#8217;s tentpole shooter franchise. It&#8217;s smaller than Battlefield 3, the shooting isn&#8217;t as satisfying, and the grind is annoying. But, hey! It&#8217;s free. I&#8217;m sure that it must attract some people just based on the initial price barrier being $0, just as there are fans of Robbie Rist&#8217;s character in The Brady Bunch. There&#8217;s always someone willing to play a free game.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Moore told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/08\/24\/ea-peter-moore-interview-gamescom-2013\/\">Engadget<\/a> that we can expect free-to-play versions of every major game EA publishes. He emphasized the success of existing F2P tie-ins to Battlefield and FIFA and said that EA will not release any games without an online component.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;We don&#8217;t ship a game at EA that is offline. It just doesn&#8217;t happen. And gamers either want to be connected so their stats and achievements reflect who they are, or you want the full multiplayer experience on top of that. We don&#8217;t deliver offline experiences anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ability for you to be able to interact with those franchises on a free-to-play basis is going to be part-and-parcel with every major franchise we do now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Moore has been a major champion of shifting EA&#8217;s focus exclusively from retail disks to games as a service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EA wants to make free-to-play versions of everything they sell - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/08\/26\/ea-wants-to-make-free-to-play-versions-of-everything-they-sell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EA wants to make free-to-play versions of everything they sell - 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