The Tomorrow Children Relaunch Will Not Be Free-To-Play

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At the end of last year, the news broke that Sony had returned the rights to the indie game The Tomorrow Children to developer Q-Games. Dylan Cuthbert, CEO and founder of Q-Games, shared this news and stated his intent to relaunch the game in the near future. Now, during an interview, Cuthbert offered more detail about the game's initial launch and what a relaunched The Tomorrow Children might look like.

Released back in 2016, The Tomorrow Children was a free-to-play online game that saw players working collaboratively in the in-game world. While the game developed a dedicated fanbase, a mixed critical response led Sony to shut the game down just six months after launch. According to Cuthbert, this short lifespan was largely due to the free-to-play format of the game. "It was a free-to-play game, so it needed time to grow and for us to work out how to monetize it properly," Cuthbert noted. "But that's the main reason it ended up being shut down because we didn't really manage to monetize it. We weren't experienced in free-to-play, so that probably didn't help, but neither did Sony.”

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Now that Cuthbert and Q-Games have the IP rights, they plan to relaunch the title with several changes. These will include adjusting the format to peer-to-peer and, most importantly, removing the free-to-play model. This, at least according to Cuthbert, will improve the way the game is played. “It means the game can be balanced a lot better because we don't have to try and squeeze a bit of money out of the player at every opportunity," he said. "We can just actually build the game properly, based on normal — more normal, I suppose — progression methods."

Cuthbert continued to double-down