Okay, but everyone taking this attitude NEEDS to actually buy the game if/when they do a physical run of it. If you sit here and chirp chirp chirp about wanting a disc, and then they eventually release one and everyone who asked for it says "meh, mid, I'll wait for sale," they are going to take that as evidence that they were right to not bother initially.
I mean, maybe. I won't speak too much to Sea of Thieves because I'm a mile outside of the target audience, but I have heard that there are a lot of people who like it, and it does solid Steam concurrents for a game of its age (and we can extrapolate from steam that there are decent numbers playing on Xbox and Gamepass PC, even though we can't see those numbers).
I'm just not sure how much commercial appeal Hi-Fi Rush has though. I know plenty of people check...
Lol this reminds me of the defenders of Back 4 Blood trying to explain why Left 4 Dead 2 always has a much higher player count. They can't just admit that the newer game is way worse, it has to be "the old game is cheaper and has lower system requirements." Nevermind that this reasoning would fall apart if you tried to apply to other situations.
Hopefully they have navigated the NIL situation properly and there aren't going to be a bunch of teams or players missing. Unfortunately I fear that in the current landscape of NIL, certain schools or players may see this game as an opportunity for them to hold out and get a ton of extra money. Since the game would lose much of its appeal if it doesn't offer virtually all schools and players, you wouldn't even need to be a huge star/school to feel like you had leverage. Moreover, ...
Yeah it's a strange risk reward calculus. Obviously the potential reward of creating a sustainable live service multiplayer game is almost unlimited - if you get the playerbase established enough to sustain the game for years, you will also inevitably get your whales who buy every battlepass and skin, as well as non-whales who buy things here and there. So for years after the development costs have already been recouped, you have an ongoing revenue stream for minimal costs on your end. So...
Popular single player RPGs on steam tend to maintain a pretty solid player base, even years after launch. Get on Steam Charts or SteamDB and look up the active numbers for Fallout 4, Skyrim, or Cyberpunk 2077.
Because we can see the numbers and compare them to other games through services like Steam charts and SteamDB. People are always going to talk about the platform where we can actually see the numbers.
We really need to reassess what constitutes a "broken" game. If a game has a few hours of server issues on its launch day, that's certainly undesirable, but does that really mean it's a "broken" game forever? Because basically every multiplayer game has had server issues at some point, whether at launch or later. So are they all broken games? Is every multiplayer game on PSN or Xbox Live broken because those services have gone down before?
Time, Dr. Freeman.
Yeah I think people on sites like this wildly overestimate the success of the steam deck. Like if you grabbed a group of casual switch, Series S/X, and PS5 owners, probably only about 1/5 of them would be aware of the existence of the steam deck.
Don't freak out everybody. Being number one on a retail chart in launch week doesn't mean a game is a long term success. Most big budget games are going to be number one at retail in their first week even if they miss sales projections by a substantial percentage, unless they launch in a super crowded window.
Avengers was #1 in the UK around its launch as well, and we saw how that went. 776d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment
Yeah but its Steam concurrent player count topped out at around 13,500 on launch, so the game clearly isn't selling gangbusters. For context, Avengers went over 28,000 Steam concurrents at launch, which isn't great, but obviously much stronger. Just as another example (since it's another four-player co-op game), Borderlands 3 hit around 93,500 concurrents after launch.
Socom 2 remake wouldn't be worth the effort. I don't know the exact number it finally sold, but from looking at articles from a few years after launch, it looks to have gotten in the ballpark of 3 million. It has been twenty years now so many of those people probably don't even play games anymore, and the people who play multiplayer games now would start whining about Socom about three weeks after launch about how "there isn't enough content" and "they just sent...
Everyone is a little bit right here.
Was Starfield a disappointment in many respects? Yes.
Would it still sell a decent number of units if it comes out on PS5? Yes.
"The only ppl that seem to have a problem with these games are purists and elitists."
This is the problem. For every person who recognizes how the live service model has degraded the quality of multiplayer games (this is without even getting to how it has even damaged some singleplayer games now) there are probably 100 people who are "gamers" who spend 90% of their time gaming playing live service games and who aren't even aware they are controversia...
What would be awesome is if someone launched an AI sandbox where gamers could have access to tons of tools to make their own games (basically Garry's Mod for AI).
What is likely to happen is devs will just use AI to make maps, do voices, and write dialogue.
If you've ever said "what's the point of playing a multiplayer game if I'm not earning anything?"; "they need to release more frequent updates"; "where is the roadmap?"; "The devs just released this game and abandoned it"; or "why did they just send this game out to die?" then you are part of the reason we are facing this future.
Didn't watch the video. And this prediction isn't limited to this game. Anytime a multiplayer game launches, no matter how good the gameplay, gamers eventually all start crying about how the game isn't enough of a live service (even though they'll say they hate live service games).
Lol okay just watched that part. Totally validates what I anticipate.
Prediction: no matter how good the gameplay is, within about two months of launch everyone will start saying "where's the content," "where are the new guns," "what's the point of playing if I'm not earning anything," and "they just sent this game out to die."
This is such a baffling take. The solid rumors from reliable sources were basically confirmed. A few games like Hi-Fi Rush coming to other platforms. The doomsday scenario Xbox "influencers" were afraid of where MS was going to become the new Sega never had anything behind it.
If someone tells you that several houses on your street were burglarized and then you turn around and start telling people, based on that, that the entire neighborhood was destroyed in a fi...