Wait I just now realized you cant have in app purchases in free apps, so how would ngmoco make eliminate free and then charge for dlc?? It`s all lies. It`ll cost 10 bucks. You heard it here first
Wanna bet money on it ? Yeah, they hope they can attract an own online community that doesn't mind paying say 1-2USD a week or so in order to play it hours daily. It's like warcraft they want subscribers to this game. If they can find enough fans they will improve the game even more and include more weapons / levels and upgrading possibilities. They are testing the waters right now, since this game has taken up A LOT of their resources. It's the point where they need to find out if their plans are working. It's like a checkpoint. I believe it's gonna be a more awesome game than it already is, but it will take some time. The fact that 99% of the game is online makes it a very unpredictable project technically and financially. I wish them all the best and hope that things work out the way they have planned.
Apple changed that policy, free applications can now have DLC. Look at Rolando 2 Chapter 1 which is free but you can buy the extra levels inside the game.
But why is ngmoco getting special treatment here. Apple does not allow any one to have dlc with free apps. How could ngmoco be allowed to do this
They changed it about 2 weeks ago and exactly on that day they announced it to be free. I assume that was the reason they were silent on price announcement since they were not allowed to spread the word until appe announces it. Rolando2 is doesn't come with all levels for free...there are only a couple. All other levels are DLC and all in all you will be about the same.
It was posted on the front page http://toucharcade.com/2009/10/15/rolando-2-chapter-1-now-available-for-free-dlc/ http://toucharcade.com/2009/10/15/ngmocos-eliminate-will-be-free/
After watching the gameplay videos once again... I realized that there's red blood when shooting somebody. I think Apple is currently in a discussion how to handle that... Make it PG17 and leave it as it is or reject it and tell ngmoco to get rid of that in order to be able to market it to as many devices as possible. Since a removal afterwards is always a step back and many users will miss it.
I don't know if that is still in the game or not, but I'm sure Ngmoco knows better than to submit it with red blood at an age rating that is too low
Hopefully they didn't forget to turn the switch to off on that one I hope they make a backdoor to activate that trough SSH and plist editing kmacleod, why aren't you in bed already
My hours are all messed up, I just woke up a little while ago They could probably add a bunch of things that would change the age rating via DLC if they wanted to. Voice chat, blood, dismemberment, fatalities, and anything else could be available as optional downloads.
That would be soooo awesome. I hope there will a lot of stuff for junkies like us... I'm looking forward to seeing all that kind of stuff pop up as optional downloads.
