Back when Namco Bandai’s Olivier Comte said that free to play games “couldn’t be high quality” and were “whittling away at AAA development,” I made the poor comparison to a child throwing a tantrum in the Walmart parking lot. Fortunately, in this day and age, money talks and so does the threat of unemployment, so like every other entity which diametrically opposes change on a moral level right up until that point where the threat of market irrelevance suddenly overcomes the desire to stand strong and wrong and stop denying that the house is slowly burning down around you when the wallpaper melted six months ago, Namco Bandai now loves free to play.
“Free-to-play is playing an increasingly important role so it’s very exciting to be bringing one of our most successful franchises to the free-to-play space for everyone to enjoy.”
Namco Bandai has unveiled Ridge Racer Driftopia, an upcoming free to play racer for PS3 and PC.
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