{"id":7955,"date":"2011-07-18T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=7955"},"modified":"2011-07-18T02:56:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T09:56:30","slug":"help-a-buddy-out-in-free-to-play-shooter-war-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/07\/18\/help-a-buddy-out-in-free-to-play-shooter-war-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Help a buddy out in free-to-play shooter War Inc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"7955\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/War_Inc.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/War_Inc.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"War_Inc\" width=\"600\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t generally play many (any?) free-to-play games, mainly because I&#8217;m mostly playing pay-to-play games.  But I get lots of press releases about them.  I know how hard it is out there for any game going that route.  I don&#8217;t envy anyone the task trying to muscle into that particular niche, where free-to-play often isn&#8217;t just a business model, but a statement of quality.<\/p>\n<p>I recently played a free-to-play shooter because I was writing <a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"7955\" href=\"http:\/\/pc.gamespy.com\/pc\/war-inc\/1182274p1.html\">a short piece for Gamespy<\/a>.  War Inc is a pretty typical entry in the niche that doesn&#8217;t have the benefit of Electronic Arts slapping a Battlefield brand on it.  I was actually surprised War Inc wasn&#8217;t as bad as I thought it was going to be.  Not that I necessarily recommend it to anyone who&#8217;s already digging on Killzone 3, or Bad Company 2, or Fear 3.  But if you&#8217;d rather pay a few bucks at a time rather than $40+ up front, you could probably do far worse than War Inc, which comes with some weirdly suggestive quote marks when you check your overall time played:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/War_Inc_quotes.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/War_Inc_quotes.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"War_Inc_quotes\" width=\"430\" height=\"230\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7956\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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