{"id":80911,"date":"2015-09-03T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80911"},"modified":"2015-09-03T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T14:12:10","slug":"lawbreakers-may-be-free-to-play-who-knows-plus-20-minutes-of-gameplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/80911-lawbreakers-may-be-free-to-play-who-knows-plus-20-minutes-of-gameplay","title":{"rendered":"LawBreakers may be free-to-play, who knows, plus 20 minutes of gameplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>LawBreakers <\/em>is Cliff Bleszinski\u2019s next big thing, or at least we\u2019re betting that Cliffy B as well as his new studio, Boss Key Productions, hopes so.<\/p>\n<p>Until recently, very few have had the opportunity to even see the game, let alone speculate on its success.<\/p>\n<p>With this new 20 minute gameplay demonstration, however, we\u2019re now well within our right to take uneducated, almost entirely arbitrary guesses at the success or failure of <em>LawBreakers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d love for it to succeed. As alienating as Bleszinski\u2019s opinions can be at times, he\u2019s still largely responsible for <em>Gears of War<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, more competition in the free-to-play market not only forces everyone involved to offer a better, more appealing service, but it should apply a little pressure to the likes of Blizzard (<em>Overwatch<\/em>), Valve (<em>Team Fortress 2<\/em> and <em>Counter-Strike<\/em>) and the multiple developers responsible for <em>Call of Duty<\/em> to up their game.<\/p>\n<p>Having seen this latest gameplay demonstration we\u2019re a little concerned.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T6tgNT-57EU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Like we said <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/80713-a-first-look-at-cliff-bleszinskis-lawbreakers.html\" target=\"_blank\">not all that long ago<\/a>, <em>LawBreakers<\/em> seems to borrow a lot of itself from games like <em>Overwatch<\/em> and <em>Team Fortress 2<\/em> (particular its character classes) and plays a lot like <em>Unreal Tournament<\/em>, only a little slower.<\/p>\n<p>Our issue is that it doesn\u2019t really do anything to help it stand out amongst the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Why would we play it over any number of alternatives, these 20 minutes don\u2019t really look to provide the answer \u2013 perhaps it\u2019s in the feel of the game.<\/p>\n<p>We won\u2019t stand by anything until we get a crack at it ourselves, but it\u2019s a little worrying.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we\u2019re just being a little jaded; it does boast a pretty incredible production value for being free-to-play, even if Boss Key Productions has no idea how to monetise it yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We&#8217;re still playing around with the monetization model. We want it to be positive. A lot of core gamers hear free-to-play and it&#8217;s like feeding a child asparagus. There is a bad reputation to it and I get it,<\/em>&#8221; Bleszinski told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/b\/news\/archive\/2015\/08\/29\/cliff-bleszinski-thinks-free-to-play-games-are-like-feeding-a-baby-asparagus.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Game Informer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They may well offer the option of an initial charge, but we wouldn\u2019t recommend it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maybe someday the game will come to consoles. And we&#8217;re not ready to rule out the idea that maybe if you give us $20 bucks and you can have early access and then when the game launches you get a special pack that other people pay $20 bucks for. How you do free-to-play is unique for each product, and we want do to do it in a good way that makes gamers happy. We&#8217;re open to unique ideas for how we get this game to market.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To do its best, <em>LawBreakers<\/em> needs to get in the hands of as many PC gamers as possible&#8230; and not suck, but that last part is fairly obvious.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/80871-adsl-for-as-little-as-r79-per-month-best-1mbps-and-8mbps-prices.html\">ADSL for as little as R79 per month: Best 1Mbps and 8Mbps prices<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/80839-mad-max-review-roundup.html\">Mad Max: Review Roundup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/80807-micro-transactions-in-metal-gear-solid-v-are-anything-but-micro.html\">Micro-transactions in Metal Gear Solid V are anything but \u201cmicro\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re a little concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":80913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15569,1448,1003,15565,1969,6979,15397,15617],"class_list":["post-80911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-boss-key-productions","tag-cliff-bleszinski","tag-gameplay","tag-lawbreakers","tag-news-2","tag-nexon","tag-pc","tag-project-bluestreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80911","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}