Xbox’s Towerborne is switching from a free-to-play game to a paid one
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Towerborne, an Xbox-published action RPG, is shifting from a free-to-play online model to a paid game with offline play and online co-op, launching on February 26th after a year of structural changes.
Towerborne, a side-scrolling action RPG published by Xbox Game Studios that has been available in early access, will officially launch on February 26th. But instead of launching as a free-to-play, always-on online game as originally planned, Towerborne is instead going to be a paid game that you can play offline.
"You will own the complete experience permanently, with offline play and online co-op," Trisha Stouffer, CEO and president of Towerborne developer Stoic, says in an Xbox Wire blog post. "This change required deep structural rebuilding over the past year, transforming systems originally designed around constant connectivity. The res …