Free-to-Play Is Coming to Consoles (Don't Panic) von smrtsmiths Blog

So far, free-to-play games that can make money from in-game purchases largely are actually confined to mobile platforms and PCs. Game consoles have largely been driven using the "pay-to-own" model, whether a $60 disc within a box or simply a $5 download.
That won't last. Last month, Wargaming announced that it's hugely popular free-to-play massive multiplayer MapleStory 2 Mesos online tank battle game World of Tanks are going to be coming to the Xbox One. Sony includes a burgeoning free-to-play market, with 16 titles already launched across all PlayStation platforms and much more inside pipeline. The popular open-world zombie survival game H1Z1 is originating over to PS4 later this current year. And Nintendo has rolled out many free-to-play games on its 3DS platform.
So actually, maybe it's much better to say that free-to-play is obviously here, instead of going anywhere soon. Do not panic.
"Not only is provided at no cost coming, we'll see things acquire more free," Damion Schubert, former lead designer inside the free-to-play MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, said for that recent Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
"It seems absurd to think about MapleStory 2 Mesos for sale some together with the genres now ever charging a box price," Schubert said. The incredibly popular "multiplayer online battle arena" genre which includes games like League of Legends should indeed be inextricably connected with free it can well be extremely difficult to offer one in a really box, he stated. "It's an absurd notion. You need to start because of the value proposition of League of Legends and work from then on."