LawBreakers: Cliff Bleszinski kündigt Free-to-play Arena-Shooter für PC an

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Yesterday, Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski announced a new studio, Boss Key Productions, and its first game, BlueStreak. Bleszinski plans to team up with Nexon -- an Asian company best known for its MMOs, in particular MapleStory -- to deliver the game, a free-to-play first person shooter on PC.
Today, Bleszinski took to Reddit for an "ask me anything" session, and candidly fielded questions from its users. The veteran designer shared his perspective on the industry and the thinking behind his plans. To help you digest it, we've extracted and contextualized his comments below.

Hier geht's zur reddit-Zusammenfassung:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/2206 ... t_chat.php
Ich persönlich erwarte nach meinen Erfahrungen mit Nexon in der Vergangenheit nichts mehr davon, ihre negativen Einflüsse bemerkt man aktuell schon wieder bei der Extraction / Dirty Bomb CBT. Auch ihr Nexon-Client ist nicht gut.

It's a bit of a surprise to see Bleszinski go with Nexon. He did consider traditional triple-A publishers, he says, and they were definitely interested in him.

According to Bleszinski, the rise of YouTube culture has fundamentally changed the way he looks at games. Says Bleszinski, "The YouTubers have taken over, folks!"
In fact, he goes so far as to say that a game's ability to generate YouTube videos is a sign of its quality: "That's why I now believe there's a direct correlation between how good your game is and how many unique Youtube Videos it can yield. Maybe amazing competitive matches, or fantastic things the users have built themselves, or even a crazy physics bug that was caught on a live stream."

Yesterday, Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski announced a new studio, Boss Key Productions, and its first game, BlueStreak. Bleszinski plans to team up with Nexon -- an Asian company best known for its MMOs, in particular MapleStory -- to deliver the game, a free-to-play first person shooter on PC.
Today, Bleszinski took to Reddit for an "ask me anything" session, and candidly fielded questions from its users. The veteran designer shared his perspective on the industry and the thinking behind his plans. To help you digest it, we've extracted and contextualized his comments below.

He also admitted he is "not sure" on how to best implement monetization, and that's part of the reason he chose Nexon as a publisher (for more on Nexon, see the next section.) According to Bleszinski, "they can provide server structures and a global peek into gamers of all types and guide us into a game that's more 'Shut up and take my money' as opposed to 'shaking you down for your hard earned cash.'"