CEO of Wargaming Victor Kislyi has been quite honest in his appraisal of Microsoft's online gaming service with regards to free-to-play titles.
Speaking with Polygon at PAX Australia, Kislyi said that the arduous certification process Microsoft enforces for Xbox Live updates doesn't work well with the free-to-play model.
"The good thing is with online games, sometimes if you screw up, you can do frequent updates," Kislyi said. "But one of the biggest challenges with Microsoft was the frequency of updates because the QA process and certification process takes an extremely long time. Totally unacceptable for a meaningful free-to-play. We are working with them to do quicker updates."
Wargaming is currently working closely with Microsoft to bring its hugely successful free-to-play MMO World of Tanks to the Xbox 360 later this year. But when asked if the some changes Wargaming are working on with Microsoft will extend to other developers. Kislyi was uncertain: "We will see, there is a lot of work on the technically side and on the administrative side which should resolve in the acceptable quality of the product, including updates of the product including speed and rates. So we will see."
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