免费游戏在苹果App Store的应用20强榜单中几乎占据了半壁江山，可见iOS平台正掀起一阵免费游戏体验的狂潮。

手机游戏公司Z2Live似乎也很看好免费模式游戏的前途，日前该公司副总裁Lou Fasulo（美国无线运营商Cingular前手机游戏部门主管）在接受采访时表示，即使是大牌游戏公司也得采纳免费模式。

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Lou Fasulo认为，“那种让玩家大量耗财的免费游戏有一个副作用，它可能会让用户心生厌倦，不想再浏览App Store的游戏列表，情愿将更多时间花在个人游戏上……不过从整个行业来看，我认为大型游戏发行商将不得不采用免费模式，以保住自己的核心品牌，与高质量的免费游戏相抗衡。”

不过，Lou Fasulo同时也表示，免费模式并不具有普适性，一些并不适合免费模式的游戏仍将以付费下载的形式存在。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Z2Live: ‘Bigger publishers will be forced to embrace freemium’

With freemium games occupying as many as half the slots in the App Store’s 20 Top Grossing games chart recently, there’s a wave behind free-to-play gaming on iOS.

Z2Live, one of the companies riding it, thinks that even the big guns of mobile gaming will be forced to dip their toes in the water.

“One side-effect of free high-budget games is that consumers end up spending less time browsing the AppStore and making larger time commitments to individual games,” says Lou Fasulo, formerly of Cingular and Vivendi Games Mobile, but now at Z2Live.

“At an ecosystem level, I believe you’ll see the bigger publishers forced to embrace the freemium model to save certain core franchises that are more at risk to high quality freemium versions.”

However, Fasulo thinks that certain games will not work as free-to-play, and so will continue to do well from paid downloads.（source:mobile-ent）