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>> SaaS Game ... (Game as a Service) This is hardly a new concept, Eve Online is a fairly prominent example of a game that is run entirely as a subscription se
by s_kilk 14y ago
>> SaaS Game ... (Game as a Service)
This is hardly a new concept, Eve Online is a fairly prominent example of a game that is run entirely as a subscription service. I'm sure there are other MMO games that do the same, however there are others like World of Warcraft which combine a subscription service with a "boxed" game client.
In the context of the current discussion, I think EA could have made the new SimCity game entirely service based, like Eve, giving the client software as a free download and charging for access to the server, where most/all of the actual simulation logic would live. Instead they've pulled a bait-and-switch with a boxed product.
- rurounijones 14y agoI was excluding MMOs from the above since the expectations of those are that they are multi-player and subscription based. When I was talking about GaaS I was sarcastically talking about ostensibly single-player games are crippled in this way. Crippleware is a good one too :)