The Banner Saga: Factions Goes Live for Everyone

The Banner Saga’s free-to-play multiplayer offshoot Factions has gone live today for everyone, after being limited to backers and paying beta players for the past week. You can find it on Steam and get warmed up for the first tournament the developers at Stoic have announced.

Word from the devs is:

First official tournament will be coming this Wednesday!

Some people have had questions about what “Factions” is, and why we released it separate from the single player Saga. To summarize, we built combat for the single player game and decided to release it as multiplayer competitive game free and early as we continue to develop the single player game. Unlike many “free to play” games, there’s no energy system, no pay to win, and matches are made between teams with even power, regardless of whether they spent money or not. In fact, we’ve pretty much designed a game that you never need to pay a cent for, truly and honestly. We’ve probably screwed ourselves. In the meantime, work continues heavily on the single player campaign.