14 DAY TRIAL // Trion Worlds has announced the incoming launch of its DRM free digital games platform Glyph, which will feature titles from Trion Worlds and select partners and will go live sometime after this year's Game Developers Conference.
The Game Developers Conference's 2014 edition will take place next week, from March 17 to March 21 and online registrations are still open for 12 more hours.
The new platform is quite similar to the Red Door Project initiative announced by Trion Worlds back in 2011, designed to research and set up a digital distribution platform that would allow developers to reach a wider audience, gaining more visibility, as well as to take advantage of the Trion Platform network technology during the development process.
Trion already has 10 million registered users and its massively multiplayer online games Rift and Defiance have a pretty solid following, and the company plans to capitalize on the audience of hardcore gamers and offer a service meant to share their audience with other developers in a way that will benefit all parties involved.
As such, the user base will benefit from more opportunities to discover free to play games and the developers will gain massive exposure, in this bold initiative from Trion.
Trion Worlds CEO Scott Hartsman said that the platform would be lightweight and would facilitate cross promotion of new games to Trion's existing fans of free to play titles, Glyph thus having the potential to provide a good way for hardcore games to acquire large new audiences.
"I don't have to tell you how much the game industry has changed over the last year. Excitement is happening everywhere. Glyph was a way to open a brand new use for our platform. We want to be a huge force for good. We can give developers more visibility," Hartman said during a recent interview with GamesBeat.
Trion Worlds has already recorded over 25 million transactions and 50 million downloads from its 10 million players, and so far, all of it has been focused on PC games, an industry that is currently booming thanks to both the surge in indie game development, as well as the accessibility afforded by worldwide digital distribution services.
Glyph will be dedicated to providing a curated collection of quality games and Trion Worlds' CEO believes that Glyph will be up to 300 percent better than similar services at finding new valuable gamers for hardcore game developers, which will convert to paying users at four times the rate that other services' users do.