{"id":335569,"date":"2017-03-11T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/10\/you-wont-have-to-pay-to-play-quake-champions\/21|21879501"},"modified":"2017-03-11T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T18:42:00","slug":"you-wont-have-to-pay-to-play-quake-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/you-wont-have-to-pay-to-play-quake-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"You won’t have to pay to play ‘Quake Champions’"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s why Quake Champions<\/em> will offer a way to play the game without spending money<\/a>. Using earned, in-game currency called “favor,” you can play with other characters for a limited time period.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to use the word ‘rent,'” Willits told the publication. “You do spend favor to have access to them for a limited amount of time, yes. But you don’t spend any real money on it.”<\/p>\n

Polygon<\/em> says that favor will be easy enough to earn and that you can spend it on things besides access to other characters too, like new skins for said characters.<\/p>\n

Given the popularity of LoL<\/em>, Counter-Strike<\/em> and Team Fortress 2<\/em> simply by way of their accessibility, this seems like it could be the best way to go about structuring the new Quake<\/em>‘s business model. That’s especially true when you consider that the aforementioned games are incredibly<\/em> popular in places like eastern Europe and South Korea, where gaming cafes are bountiful. Bethesda made its eSports aspirations for the game explicit when it debuted last year; this helps prove that it wasn’t just hollow talk.<\/p>\n