“Call of Duty: Black Ops” was never viewed as a “Call of Duty” franchise with a single narrative by developer Treyarch, instead it is an entire universe within which stories can be told. And while “Black Ops 4” won’t have any traditional single-player campaigns, it will still tell some of those stories, Treyarch co-studio head Dan Bunting says.
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.
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.
"Nothing is off the table right now."
"...instead it is an entire universe within which stories can be told."
Protip Treyarch. So is every other story. All someone would have to do, is tell another story, and say it's in the same "universe". I know, that was hard, wasn't it?
Calling something a "universe" doesn't make it special. Retroactively trying to make something sound far more involved than it actually was? Is pretty pathetic to boot.
Transparency would be best. Just say, "Hey, multiplayer makes us a ton more money. We're greedy a**hats, so we took the greedy path." Least you may get a sliver of respect for being honest.