On this week's Co-op Podcast we spoke in length about Respawn Co-founder Jason West departing from Respawn, and what Respawn has in store for us come E3. This branched off into us discussing a possible Call of Duty competitor, as Respawn used to be Infinity Ward. We started to discuss the possibility of seeing these popular First-person shooters adopting a free-to-play model where the publishers would offer the game for free but make profit only from micro-transactions. If there's anyone who could do this, it's definitely Activision Blizzard.
We also touched on Yu Suzuki's desire to Kickstarter fund a new Shenmue game. Sega currently own the trademark for Shenmue, so what's the likelihood of them lending the license to Suzuki to finish what he started? Let us know what you think.
Also we discussed the recent announcement of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and what it means to the franchise. Is it too soon for us to be given Assassin's Creed IV?
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Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.
Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
Windows Central: "The money may keep rolling in, but Microsoft is the custodian of one of the biggest selling video game series in history. If something doesn't change, I fear we'll reach a breaking point and irreparable damage will have been done."
In my view, they should probably merge MP with Warzone and essentially make it free to play like Halo Infinite. The campaign/zombies mode can be $30 yearly DLC. I know this would be insanity as most COD players essentially pay the full price of the game simply for the MP. However-with a shrinking player base they may have to consider it. Making it free would bring in a ton of players.
To late MW3 should have been a lesson but here we are two years later with a steaming pile a shite called blops7
Nothing lasts forever, eventually something will come along to make people forget about COD
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@Oumba:”We’ve heard that story many times before 😂”
You know what we seen many times good franchises been run into the ground by bad management like h___o , f___a and most of the sports game oh I forgot the dynasty warriors
Oh forgot to say
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Halo killer once arrived and technically call of duty killer also arrived, its name is Fortnite
Call of Duty was riding the revenue horse and charts for ~20 years. Whether undeserved or deserved.
But I endorse everyone to remind you that Microsoft could have decided differently when they took it over.
The money was certainly there, and they could have taken their time revamping the franchise:
Current-gen tech, manageable microtransactions, not imitating Fortnite and returning to core values of the franchise's origin.
They didn't.
Let's see next year. Hopefully without the then 13 years old PS4 and One hardware.
Steam page update reveals new technical features for Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, hinting at a possible remake.
Fingers crossed, does seem like it's almost guaranteed, just wish they'd announce it already, seems like we've been hearing about it forever, I just want be some black flag! 😂
I'll only pick it up if Ubisoft gets rid of the internet requirement to install a physical disc. Release the game complete
This seems to be referring to updates to the current steam version. If a remake does get announced it will absolutely be sold separately
This is a great podcast about video games.
As long as Activision are making Call of Duty games... they well NEVER be free to play. Also who really cares about Shenmue 3? GTFOH
i feel they would lose money if they went free to play.
their games are basically $100 if you purchase all of their map packs. 100x(sales number)= a lotta $$$.
note: i know that not everyone who bought the game will purchase their map packs so using the sales number would be inaccurate but still, millions of people probably do.
This is just based on dreams that will never happen. :(
The podcast on the PS4 was great. Just loaded 46, I'll listen as I play some Horde Mode preparing for Gears Judgment.