{"id":104520,"date":"2019-11-27T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/354872"},"modified":"2019-11-27T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T19:37:00","slug":"man-of-medan-promotion-adds-free-buddy-pass-to-encourage-online-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/27\/man-of-medan-promotion-adds-free-buddy-pass-to-encourage-online-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Man of Medan promotion adds free buddy pass to encourage online play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Until Dawn<\/em> follow-up <em>Man of Medan<\/em> embraced the couch co-op potential of its predecessor by including a local and online multiplayer mode at launch, and is now <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2019\/11\/27\/interactive-horror-man-of-medan-gets-free-friends-pass-starting-today\/\">offering a free buddy pass<\/a>&nbsp;on all platforms to encourage more players to give co-op a try.<\/p>\n<p>Developer Supermassive Games is offering a single buddy pass to<em> Man of Medan <\/em>owners that already own the game or purchase it before January 6, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>That pass can then be handed off to another player, allowing the two parties to remotely play through the game\u2019s story together a single time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a similar move to what other online co-op games <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/339525\/Buddy_pass_will_let_Wolfenstein_Youngblood_players_share_with_friends.php\">like<em> Wolfenstein: Youngblood<\/em><\/a> have tried in the past and offers a&nbsp;way to introduce online play to players without requiring them or their potential co-op partner to foot the bill for a second copy of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until Dawn follow-up Man of Medan embraced the couch co-op potential of its predecessor by including a local and online multiplayer mode at launch, and is now offering a free buddy pass&nbsp;on all platforms to encourage more players to give co-op a try. Developer Supermassive Games is offering a single buddy pass to Man of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}