Vivendi's projections from the game," Evans recalls of the FIFA Coins classic MMORPG. "Their lifetime projection was something like 70,000 units and we exceeded that day one -- which today doesn't sound like a big number, but back then, it was huge."Ten years later, the Electronic Arts-owned studio is getting ready to launch its first free to play title, Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes. "We often got asked about taking our old games free-to-play, and in the case of Warhammer, we felt there was a different way
of doing it," he tells Gamasutra. While a number of Buy NFL 18 Coins older MMOs have gone free-to-play in recent years, Evans says, "there's a whole community that doesn't want that. We decided that there's a lot of things you have to get right about a free-to-play game for it to be successful, everything from the size of the download to the accessibility that lets you quickly get to the fun of the game, and we really wanted to rethink our offering with Wrath of Heroes."The game is designed with a focus on "
short-session" instanced scenarios that have been popular in Warhammer in the past, distilled out into their own standalone experience. "We carved out scenarios, and we're letting people play with iconic characters from Warhammer that you don't have to level up," Evans explains.Players join a game and pick from a selection of heroes for three-way combat among teams of six, and sessions last about 15 minutes. "This is a huge change we put in," he continues. "It's now three sides, drawing on what
great about Dark Age of Camelot... it still retains that sense of mmogo shifting alliances."Players aren't bound to a single type of hero during their playtime, either -- each time they die, they can return to the match as a different type of character, which makes the balance of power in combat extremely dynamic, Evans says. The team developed Wrath of Heroes after closely watching fans of team or squad-based play and the ways they engaged with titles like Valve's Team Fortress or Riot's League of
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