Friday, September 5, 2008

New Game Business Model

What do you get when you cross a venerable war-game franchise with cartoon graphics, a massively multiplayer approach to combat, and free distribution?

If you're Electronic Arts, you call it Battlefield Heroes and you hope to make your money from advertisements and micro-transactions in which players pay a small fee for upgraded equipment. In fact, Battlefield Heroes is the trial run for an entirely new business model that EA has dubbed Play 4 Free.

I suspect that you'll see more like this in the future!





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