10 Years Ago This Month: Microsoft learns a lesson about playing old games it would soon forget, and Activision doesn't see digital distribution as being a big thing in the next decade.
Rockstar has launched an official marketplace for "every server and every player" to buy mods: Cfx Marketplace.
I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.
Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.
What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.
Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.
Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.
I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.
Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.
I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.
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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.
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BC us awesome! Glad MS decided to give what many gamers wanted.
Man Sony fanboys just hate the fact Ms BC is better then Sony and it free lol
I like how this author talk about how Ms flip flopping on Bc but not mention anything about Sony flip flopping on PSnow was once one of their so call mega bomb at last year E3 and according to Sony now nobody care about Bc anymore.
Instead of letting me buy my old games again, please let me use my old already bought physical copies.
Goes for both MS & Sony.
I really don't enjoy Backwards Compatibility that much, but it's nice to have it anyway.
Even with PSNow, I fully expect PS5 to run PS4 games since the architecture will be the same this time.
On Xbox, it goes without saying with the UWP initiative, everything would run on everything that is Microsoft devices.
With a digital only future looming BC should become standard on consoles in the near future, hopefully.