{"id":8059,"date":"2010-11-25T11:40:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T19:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8059"},"modified":"2018-08-01T17:35:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T17:35:04","slug":"crytek-goes-online-f2p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/crytek-goes-online-f2p\/","title":{"rendered":"Crytek Warface Goes Online Free-to-Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9883\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9883\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9883 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Warface_Crytek-S-e1428643557794.jpg\" alt=\"Warface is Crytek's F2P FPS for Asia.\" width=\"390\" height=\"220\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warface is Crytek&#8217;s F2P FPS for Asia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NOV. 25, 2010 \u2022 Crytek GmbH announced it first online F2P first-person shooter title, Warface. The game uses the CryENGINE 3 platform for high-quality visuals, and was developed at Crytek Seoul primarily for the Korean market. Multiplayer co-operative and PvP features are planned. Chinese publisher Tencent has acquired the exclusive rights to market the Warface in China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Outside of Blizzard\u2019s World of Warcraft, few Western developers have had significant traction in the Chinese and Korean online games market mainly due to regulatory and language barriers along with intense competition from local games companies.\u00a0 We see Crytek\u2019s strategy of creating a local development studio to penetrate the Asian market as the likeliest path of entry into Korea.\u00a0 Chinese regulatory requirements necessitate partnership with a domestic operator such as Tencent, but since Korean games companies already have a foothold in the Chinese market via such partnerships the choice to develop content in Korea was obvious to Crytek.\u00a0 We suspect other western companies currently not publishing in mainland Asia will follow the same strategy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOV. 25, 2010 \u2022 Crytek GmbH announced it first online F2P first-person shooter title, Warface. The game uses the CryENGINE 3 platform for high-quality visuals, and was developed at Crytek Seoul primarily for the Korean market. Multiplayer co-operative and PvP features are planned. Chinese publisher Tencent has acquired the exclusive rights to market the Warface [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137,78,66],"tags":[88,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059"}],"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=8059"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16702,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions\/16702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}