Ridge Racer Driftopia (free-2-play on PS3 and PC)

grumpy_new_yorker

Ridge Racer usually breaks ground by being a launch game on ... pretty much every platform ever. Now it's innovating by adopting a new model, free-to-play, and bringing it to a new level of silly nomenclature by calling it "free-2-drift."

Ridge Racer Driftopia, developed by Ridge Racer Unbounded's Bugbear Entertainment, is a racing game in which you can buy cars, "repair kits," and XP packs. Namco previously experimented with a similar business model with Ridge Racer for Vita, which shipped with a small number of cars and courses, and sold the rest as DLC. Of course, that game had a $30 MSRP. So this is progress! It's due out this year, Namco says.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnmeo3aOpzg

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/04/11/ridge-racer-driftopia-is-free-2-drift-on-ps3-and-pc/

genocidecutter

Free 2 play. Yeah Im checking this out

Karl.

The one on the vita was horrific.

Karl.

? Freemium.

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The Lonious Monk

It's risky because they are betting on the idea that people will like the game enough to sink a lot of money into DLC, but it's not a bad idea.

dontdiedontkillanyon

Karl. wrote: »

The one on the vita was horrific.

Innit. The Vita version is terrible. If they were that lazy then all they had to do was port Ridge Racer 2 for the PSP over to Vita and they would have had a good game with zero effort. Instead they produced that ? poor excuse of a joke.