Xbox update process "unacceptable" for F2P games, says World of Tanks dev

As a beta tester for this platform, I will say that WG has thourougly dug themselves a hole with Microsft. Having not produced a quality patch since 9-9 and 21 days later still making promises to have a patch "soon", the game is not playable "as intended". Frustrating beta's to venture off to do other things. I do not belive in the FtP model as the internet band with required to play any FtP is not free. Free is a misnomer we have accepted as a game community and therefore so should WG's Victor Kislyi CEO. I receive so many benifits of my Live Gold account that it is worth my monies.

I'm sure Serb responded like this.

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Back in my crappy xbox days I remember that the updates on xbox take seconds even with an average internet so why is the wargame dev moaning? it's not as if the pc version's not flawed like f**k.

The pc version has so many problems, main one being balancing and biassed towards Russian stuff like you wouldn't believe, it needs one heck of an overhaul basically.

And @Techn1c4l I've been playing World of Tanks for a while on and off(gets boring very quickly) and it's more pay to win than anything. The money system in the game for basic things like having a camo pattern on a tank is dull and rip off, it's like microsoft points.

Free-to-play is unacceptable itself.

MS needs to learn their lesson and I don't often say this, but it should be the hard way.

I couldn't care less about World of Whatever, but it's great to see a company speaking against the draconian policies that prevail in the console market.

"World of Tanks will be a free-to-play title on Xbox Live, though it won't be entirely free-to-play, as players must have a Gold subscription ($5/month) to play the game."

Oh, so it's free-to-play...but it isn't. If it isn't ENTIRELY free to play then why are they still considering it free-to-play? They might as well just come out and say "You can play the game free of charge for only 5 bucks a month". It doesn't make sense.

This game might be free-to-download. But free-to-play? No, so they shouldn't be calling it free-to-play then.

"The good thing is with online games, sometimes if you screw up, you can do frequent updates,"

That's the thing, you can't do that with a real business.

I agree that the update timeframe is asinine, but they can't afford to allow a bug or anything of the sort into their marketplace.

I don't know why this is a surprise for them or why they are making a likely very inferior version for consoles anyway.

The World largest software company like Microsoft who owns Xbox live online system with the best and the most reliable on Earth, sorry better Than Sony, has slow to update its system ? Something went wrong on this anti Microsoft web site like Gamestop.

Dude

This is a propaganda from Sony.

Why Microsoft not try to let developer to update ?

This for to ensure online Xbox live system is free from bugs as Sony used to headache on its online system. Now Xbox live is very secure and it is free to update sir

lol

"meaningful free-to-play"
LOL

Yet all involved seemed so excited at E3....my how quickly things can change, huh?

This is simple. If the company has this idealism they can just cancel the project at this point. No problemo dude.

Microsofts definition of F2P is clearly different from mine. Sort of been a theme with Microsoft lately...

Maybe Microsoft should try hiring Sony... Devs have been saying the PS4 is great for F2P games ;)

He would have known in advance how their QA process works, yet he still decided to release the game on the 360?

A QA process is there for a reason, this ensures quality for customers on day 1. Nothing is worse than downloading a game and not being able to play it on day 1. Even with this "unacceptable" certification process, there are still buggy games released, so if anything they need to tighten it up(which they didn't of course, now updates are free if I remember correctly, we'll see how that turns out).

Serves them right, their greed got them in this position in the first place...

Free 2 Play and yet you need a gold subscription. That's really funny! :D

yet they're still making it for the 360 and you need a gold membership to play it. ftp my arse.

Does anyone above the age of 7 really care about tanks?

@Cl0ud we complain about Live because there is something we don't like about it.

- You have to pay to gain access to services like Youtube, netflix etc.
- it's a payed service, yet you see ads on the dashboard
- Free-to-play need xbl gold

when will this release on the Xbox 360? anybody know?

This guy keeps complaining about 360's policies. Should have made if for PS3 instead.

I'll ask this then, if it is unacceptable, then why the hell did you make a 360 (Xbox version in general) version of the game?

"It's unacceptable, but we'll bend over and take it."