Crytek teases its possible for TimeSplitters 4 to be made as part of their upcoming Free-To-Play line of games if a normal release isn't possible.
According to the company's founder, Cevat Yerli, if publishers keep refusing to help fund the project, Crytek might end up going towards the free-to-play route. In terms of cost, it would be a lot cheaper to develop the game in the free-to-play model than as a standard retail game while providing a potential constant revenue stream which benefits Free Radical the most.
It would also help boost interest in Crytek's upcoming free-to-play service expected to launch later this year.
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Yerli explained that he would love to make another TimeSplitters game, however publishers just aren’t interested in picking the franchise up. ”I wish we would develop it. We can’t develop it the way Free Radical had started it before we acquired them,” he said.
“When we looked at it – and again, I love TimeSplitters, I’m a huge TimeSplitters fan particularly of the multiplayer part. I love the idea, I love the brand, I love everything – but the publishers don’t. That’s reality. And I don’t want to spend our own money on the project in a retail business.”
”So let me say it this way: I love the picture of Timesplitters running on GFACE. So if we get enough fans, being loud enough…”
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While EA is currently the main publisher for Crytek games, as of now they have refused any funding and support for TimeSplitters 4 with Free Radical's financial problems as the potential main reason.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...a-possibility/
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