EA and Activision's reliance on Games as a Service has caused huge layoffs for both companies, with it clear that the focus on live games needs to change.
Sony has refreshed the Holiday Sale, as new titles are added and a lot have been removed.
The Epic Games Store is giving away two Styx games this week.
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.
Only one solution: TAKE YOUR FREAKING TIME.
Nobody wants to play a half-baked title. Plain and simple.
let them keep going... hopefully they'll eventually close down completely...
I think dice should've stuck with the premium bsince the GaaS isn't working for BFV since they haven't even implented microtransactions yet
They won't
Why does it need to change? They can keep going this way and if it's profitable for them then great. If not then maybe they need to change. Just because I hate something and think it's stupid doesn't mean they should change it if it works for them.