The MMO shooter Defiance is now finally free to play on Xbox 360, 5 months after the Free2Play transition on PC. The transition on PlayStation 3 took place in mid-August.
It did not go as planned. In May, we reported that Defiance, developed by Trion Worlds, would switch to Free2Play. The Defiance team got tips from the Rift team: they work under one roof. Rift had already switched from a payment model to Free2Play in June 2013.
In early June 2014, the transition of Defiance on PC took place; mid-July was scheduled for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. However, that didn’t work, an “unstable” patch ruined it. Then there was a long silence. In August, the transition for PlayStation 3 occurred, and only now is it finally happening for Xbox 360. To participate, one needs a Gold membership for Xbox Live.
