{"id":7795,"date":"2011-12-14T22:29:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T06:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7795"},"modified":"2018-07-16T20:59:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T20:59:42","slug":"aion-goes-f2p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/aion-goes-f2p\/","title":{"rendered":"Aion Goes Free-to-Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10813 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/AION-FTP-S-e1427607578474.jpg\" alt=\"AION FTP-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/>DEC. 14, 2011 \u2022 NCsoft&#8217;s Aion MMO will become a free-to-play service in Europe during the first quarter of 2012. GameForge partnered with the Korean-based publisher in overseeing the adaptation and manage Aion in Europe moving forward. The shift away from a subscription model for the title is only planned for the European market at this time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: There is a major movement towards making MMOGs free-to-play (F2P).\u00a0 However, it is telling that this is only being done in Europe.\u00a0 Europe is a solid overall market but the free-to-play model has been more dominant than in North America.\u00a0 GameForge is an example of a huge company that has been very successful with simple browser based F2P games. However, that market is slowing as more robust client-based games are increasingly being introduced.\u00a0 GameForge suffered some layoffs in 2011 and has been working on building a client-based business for years.\u00a0 Thus the partnership makes sense given GameForge&#8217;s F2P experience and Aion&#8217;s place as a solid large client-based game.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEC. 14, 2011 \u2022 NCsoft&#8217;s Aion MMO will become a free-to-play service in Europe during the first quarter of 2012. GameForge partnered with the Korean-based publisher in overseeing the adaptation and manage Aion in Europe moving forward. The shift away from a subscription model for the title is only planned for the European market at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137,78,39,66],"tags":[388,88,216,245,256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7795"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16506,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions\/16506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}