A Pixelated View takes a look at digital distribution, the price of digital games and how gamers as consumers are overpaying for digital editions of games.
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
Chance Glasco, one of the co-founders of Infinity Ward and creators of the Call of Duty franchise, has claimed that Activision once pressured the studio to include an invasion of Israel by Iran.
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
Many are overpriced, it's true, but so long as there are some games on offer that would otherwise be too expensive due to rarity to reasonably get, and as long as the games are ones you can download and keep regardless of whether or not you're signed up to a service, then I don't think a small increase in price is too bad a thing.
I'd pop down a $10 for a game like Seiken Densetsu 3, for instance, if it were ever localized on the E-shop with some decent translation work.
I flat out refuse to purchase digital games for the Wii U besides VC games...even then I tend to not bother as I have a modded Wii.
Articles like this leave out the business value of the retailer relationship. MS/Sony/nintendo need the retailers to sell their low margin hardware. Take away the software business by undercutting and you risk losing retail channels.
Exactly what the author is missing. I personally won't buy digital if I dont have to, but I understand that the price is as it is because the sellers cannot undercut their retail partners for fear of hurting that important avenue. That being said, I won't touch digital unless the price is significantly lower as there is no real benefit for me to do it.