Free-to-play
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 100 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5140-1101-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Free-to-play (F2P) refers to any video game that has the option of allowing its players to play without paying. The model was first popularly used in early massively multiplayer online games (MMO) targeted towards casual gamers, before finding wider adoption among games released by major video game publishers to combat video game piracy and high system requirements. Since games using the concept are available at no cost to players, they use other means to gather revenue, such as charging money for certain in-game items or integrating advertisements into the game. Free-to-play can be compared to pay-to-play, in which payment is required before using a service, and freemium, a more general term and a business model in which a product is offered free of charge while a fee is charged for users to access premium features. There is no strict distinction between certain shareware versions of games and free-to-play games, however shareware versions...