If you own a PlayStation 3 and want to get in on some hot DUST 514 action, be forewarned that there will be a "cover charge" at the door before you can start playing. The one time fee will be refunded as in-game currency as per CCP's plan.
The PS3 exclusive is a persistant world FPS from the makers of the popular EVE Online for the PC. Actions carried out in DUST 514 will have repercussions in EVE and vice-versa. The cover charge will allow gamers to make microtransaction purchases in game.
Whether or not this additional fee will result in an lower initial price at retailers remains to be seen. More from CCP can be read over at GamesIndustry.biz.
"In the beginning you have to pre-buy credits, so you pay something like $10-$20 to enter the game and you get the equivalent number of credits in the game once you do that. We call this the 'cover charge'," CCP's CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson told GamesIndustry.biz.
"You're really getting the game for free but you have to pre-buy credits in the beginning. We might go fully free-to-play down the line, but in the beginning we have a cover charge just to manage the initial launch of it.
He added: "We have always been a big believer in growing up a social network behind the game in a slow and predictable way. Because we have seen that if you don't do that you can end up with a very unstructured experience, where there's no cohesion to the community. By growing it at the beginning we help to make a healthy environment initially."
"You're really getting the game for free but you have to pre-buy credits in the beginning. We might go fully free-to-play down the line, but in the beginning we have a cover charge just to manage the initial launch of it.
He added: "We have always been a big believer in growing up a social network behind the game in a slow and predictable way. Because we have seen that if you don't do that you can end up with a very unstructured experience, where there's no cohesion to the community. By growing it at the beginning we help to make a healthy environment initially."
The PS3 exclusive is a persistant world FPS from the makers of the popular EVE Online for the PC. Actions carried out in DUST 514 will have repercussions in EVE and vice-versa. The cover charge will allow gamers to make microtransaction purchases in game.
Whether or not this additional fee will result in an lower initial price at retailers remains to be seen. More from CCP can be read over at GamesIndustry.biz.