@thorstein
Instead of assuming you are just being intentionally obtuse, I'll assume you just don't have all the information.
This guy has been in executive/manager positions at Bungie for many years (basically since the time the studio was making Halo 2). Of course, that includes many years where the studio was making games that were almost universally acclaimed, and the studio was expanding its workforce and adding jobs (I'll assume you under...
"Could have saved so many jobs if he'd just put that money toward people's careers instead."
I think people have a pretty serious misunderstanding of how companies work. Except in cases where the company is fully owned by one person (or a small group, like a family), the CEO's personal money is totally separate from the company's money. So while bragging about expensive cars might be in poor taste during this time, the idea that he used Bungie'...
I think the calculation is a little different when you are talking about bigger budget remakes of games from the PS1-PS3 era. In those cases I think the publishers are banking on the idea that there are a lot of games from those eras that have very established names and that lots of gamers are very aware of, but that didn't sell in the kind of numbers that more games started to hit in the PS4 era. A great example of this working out is Resident Evil 2 Remake (original RE:2 sold 5ish milli...
Having your studio depending on this rerelease just feels like a massive misread of the state of indie games right now. In today's market, a game like Braid might easily have had minimal success even if it had been new, and they were relying on people to buy it again. There may have been a few indie games from the late 360/PS3 to early PS4/XONE indie heyday that have the cache to get people to buy them again in mass numbers, but I don't think there are many.
@anast
Good point, GOG is the better example.
As far as your second scenario, that's true, but you can also backup digital games on external drives (at least on PC and PlayStation, no clue about Xbox). So in your "bike generator" scenario, if you had your GOG files backed up, you could restore them. Meanwhile you could just as easily lose or damage your discs, or your disc drive could mess up. Heck, a quick internet search would show you exa...
It's nice to see someone point this out. That generation (360/PS3) is fondly remembered as this golden era (and there were many good games during that time), but it is also the generation that either started or planted the seeds for almost all the negative aspects of the games industry that we bemoan today.
I will note though that I'm pretty sure paid online started with the original Xbox, not the 360. But since it had such a small install base and many people then ...
@Vits
The thing is, I don't begrudge people for preferring physical games. There are valid reasons to prefer physical over digital.
The issue I have is when people who have decided that they dislike digital games and always online DRM treat the arguments against one as equally applicable to the other, simply because they have personally decided to bundle them together. It would be like if a person disliked snakes and income taxes and decided that any ...
For whatever reason, gamers seem completely unable to distinguish between downloading digital games and always online DRM. Anytime a story crops up that demonstrates the pitfalls of always online games or systems, you inevitably see a comment like this one that follows the "and this is the reason I'm sticking with physical games."
The problem with that is that physical games can, and often do, rely on always online DRM as well. You can have a disc for an onlin...
This reminds me a lot of when Sony finally put together a decent PS Vita bundle that includes several games and a memory stick and sold it for under $200. They couldn't keep it in stock. https://www.pushsquare.com/...
But unfortunately these moves that boost their secondary platforms tend to come too late, after Sony has already mostly stopped p...
I think this game is probably too high profile as a timed Xbox exclusive for this to happen, but you do have to wonder if/when a game is going to come out that runs well enough on the X and is just a trainwreck on the S.
I have found that the more recent FC games work better as what I call "background games." Basically what I mean is it's nice to have an active save in one of them going for those times you have 45 minutes to play games and just want to have fun and don't want to get bogged down playing a game online or starting a new game and spending all your time into an annoying tutorial. Like I haven't touched FC4 in years but I know if I had 30 minutes to an hour to play I could hop...
I find it fascinating how modern gamers can't or won't distinguish between games in a series that come out every few years and an annualized series. It's fine to not like Far Cry, but to act like it's annualized series is just counter factual. 6 came out in 2021, and 7 won't be out until 2025 at the earliest. 4 was 2014, and 5 was 2018. So even if you throw in the spinoffs, it isn't an annualized series.
Meanwhile we constantly look back on the 1990s...
Yep. Unfortunately there has been so little since then that has scratched the same itch. Really the closest thing has been BOTW, which uses a lot of similar systems (though ironically FC2 came out before Ubisoft put the Assassin's Creed towers in Far Cry, while BOTW had Ubi towers). Obviously it isn't a shooter though. I keep hoping that that some indie dev will put an FC2-esque game out on Steam, but so far I've been left wanting.
Yep, 2 is my favorite by far as well, and one of my favorite singleplayer games of all time. It was probably one of the last games Ubisoft made before they started homogenizing their franchises to be open world collect-a-thons with unnecessary RPG mechanics tacked on. I enjoyed 3 for what it was, but it was clearly an attempt to make the franchise appeal to a mass audience (which, in fairness, was successful).
The trouble with most criticisms of this franchise is that they insist Far Cry 3 was the best game, but the things they claim to hate about the franchise are all the elements that 3 introduced.
I agree that Concord isn't a great idea, and I love most of the franchises you listed, but most of those went away because people weren't buying them. Resistance 3 was a fantastic game, and it sold poorly. The last Motorstorm was good too and it flopped. A huge chunk of PS5 owners have probably never played a single game from any of the franchises you just listed and are far more likely to get hooked into a new live service game (again, I don't think it will be Concord, but a lot ...
Its honestly baffling how gamers seem to be unable to grasp the concept that different currencies have different values relative to one another.
Lol as soon as I saw this I know it was going to be a "price hike" in a country that has destroyed the value of its own currency. Honestly it's annoying to me to think other countries were getting cheaper games just because their governments trashed the value of their currencies. If a game costs a certain amount in $ (or £ or €), it should cost the equivalent (or approximately) of that in the local currency for each country. Otherwise people in US/Europe are basically subsi...
It will be interesting to see if the crowd that plays this game gets as heavily invested in microtransactions as the FIFA (I know it's a different name now but you know what I mean) and NBA2K fanbases have. Where this is a revival of a franchise that has been dormant for eleven years, it is going to have an appeal for a lot of people who aren't actively involved in gaming anymore (if you listen to any podcasts that talk about college football and they start talking about this game it ...
Yeah I'm not sure I believe people are really as simple as they are pretending to be on this point. Does everyone who thinks that the money he spent on cars should have gone to employee salaries believe that he has been paying employee salaries out of his personal bank account before? Do they think that the employees Bungie is not cutting are being paid their salaries from his personal bank account? Do they think that when Bungie was successful and expanding and adding these jobs that are...