{"id":29620,"date":"2011-12-15T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T09:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29620"},"modified":"2011-12-15T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T09:13:04","slug":"aion-is-going-free-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/29620-aion-is-going-free-to-play","title":{"rendered":"Aion is going free-to-play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NCSoft has announced that from February onwards it\u2019s fantasy themed MMORPG will no longer require a monthly subscription free to play.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time as the switch to free-to-play comes a change in publisher.<\/p>\n<p>Gameforge will be taking on publishing duties, and will work alongside NCSoft in maintaining new servers as well as maintaining the operation and support for the game.<\/p>\n<p>New features will be added to the game: for example, players will be able to open their own stores and collect an unlimited daily amount of aether and essences. Existing players will receive special \u201cbonuses\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Aion will become yet another MMORPG to adopt the free-to-play model, which in many instances has shown success via the micro-transaction business model.\u00a0 You can find out more about the move to free-to-play on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aionfreetoplay.com\/website\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aionfreetoplay.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Aion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29624\" title=\"Aion\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Aion-1024x603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Aion-1024x603.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Aion-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Aion-250x147.jpg 250w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Aion.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New publisher announced, free-to-play model to be adopted in February<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":29625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1629,1631,1630],"class_list":["post-29620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-aion","tag-gameforge","tag-ncsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29626,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29620\/revisions\/29626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}