CVG a encore fait circuler une fausse information sur un prétendu abonement pour pouvoir jouer online à Unreal Championship (XBox). Mark Rein (Epic) démentit et cite un article du LA Times :
Another universal dictum is that getting online has to be seamless and simple. Ideally, once the console is hooked up to a broadband connection, the gamer pops in a disc and is automatically online.
To make this happen, Microsoft is devoting more engineers to creating an online environment than to making the box itself, said J Allard, Microsoft’s general manager for the Xbox. Microsoft also has 100 servers to test more than 20 online games being developed by other game companies. « We’re making a huge investment, » Allard said.
To pay for that investment, Microsoft is expected to charge players a monthly subscription fee for the service. Although a price has not been settled on, Microsoft’s internal market research has shown that many consumers are willing to pay as much as $10 a month, on top of any fees to get high-speed Internet access.
En résumé, c’est Microsoft qui fera payé un abonement mensuel (10$?) pour pouvoir accéder à leur plateforme permettant de jouer online, quelque soit le jeu.
Source : les Bluesnews.
