Company of Heroes, Homeworld Studio Making More Free-to-Play Games

PC strategy gods Relic Entertainment look to be moving deeper into the world of free-to-play games, if a number of job descriptions on the company’s riches888pg site are anything to go by. (They usually are). They’re looking for a Creative Director, Executive Producer and Senior Designer, all of which are specifically tagged as “Free-to-Play” roles.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ jinda44 playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); It’s of course not the first time Relic has dabbled in the field; the doomed Company of Heroes Online title was free-to-play before it closed down in 2011. https://kotaku.com/company-of-heroes-is-back-sort-of-453107647 But that was a conversion of an existing product. Hiring new staff specifically to work in the field implies something a little more serious. Wouldn’t it be a cruel stab in the guts to, after years of asking for a Homeworld sequel, get one only for it to be free-to-play? I…wow, sorry for that. That was a dark place we all just went. I’m actually a little upset now, and am going to go sit down and convince myself it’d surely be e19 something else Seems Relic’s Expanding Its Free-to-Play Plans [Giant Bomb]