Ghost Recon is one of Ubisoft’s major video game franchises. So the French maker of console games is using the upcoming launch of Ghost Recon: Future Solder — a major cross-platform title coming May 22 — to launch a series of related social and online titles. Ghost Recon Commander, developed by Loot Drop for Ubisoft, will debut on Facebook shortly. And a free-to-play first-person shooter game, Ghost Recon Online, debuts this summer. By creating more casual, free-to-play titles, Ubisoft hopes to widen the interest in Ghost Recon and eventually convert those players into hardcore fans, said Chris Early, vice president of digital publishing at Ubisoft. Here’s a transcript of our interview with Early.
Ghost Recon Commander has been cancelled, somewhat unexpectedly. The Facebook-based "companion game" to Ubisoft's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was created by Loot Drop, and - up until a few hours ago - seemed to be All Systems Go.
Brenda Garno Brathwaite and John Romero, two well-known game designers, never made a secret of their passion for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon games. They played for hundreds of hours and tweeted about their victories. Ubisoft’s Chris Early took notice and hired their company, Loot Drop, to make the Facebook game Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Commander. Some of its features, such as blood splotches and head shots, are not your usual fare on a social network where many of the titles are about matching gems or growing crops.
Ghost Recon Commander is now available on Faceboo,.
"convert those players into hardcore fans"
Wait.. okay... so they wanna get the baby gamers in using casual renditions of Ghost Recon, to make them hardcore?
How? If they're playing casual games, Hardcore will be too hard for them.
*Goes back to Ghost Recon 1. A Proper Ghost Recon.*