Well, considering that most multiplayer games that come out now (either PVP or co-op) are inferior to similar experiences from 10-15 years ago, it's really not surprising.
I think they are saying "Dinger."
That version does not include all the bells and whistles that a native next gen version will include. You already knew this, of course.
@CorndogBurglar
Yeah that's my point. If they had used the Early Access label, the nature of the game would have been clear. Although I guess that would have opened the possibility that it would have been one of those games that got stuck in Early Access forever. Maybe without the backlash, we never would have gotten the game in the state it's in now.
Yep. Honestly, if they hadn't gotten so wrapped up with Sony and launching on PS4 (which admittedly I was all in favor of at the time), they could have done the first few years of what was the actual release as a an "early access" period on Steam. This would have allowed them to have the same "work in progress" mentality without all the backlash.
Agreed, in Battlefield where matches take so long and require so many players, having too many different game modes is actually a problem. Most of the modes in BFV other than Conquest just seemed like worse versions of Rush, but for whatever reason they haven't seemed to be able to get Rush right more recently. Hopefully if nothing else, there will be some decent Rush servers on the BFBC2 servers in Battlefield Portal.
BFV sold 7+ million in its first six weeks.
https://www.gamespot.com/ar...
Oh yeah that wonderful Battlefield 4 campaign everyone played and remembers so fondly lol.
Lol after Battlefield V sold 7+ million in its first six weeks and was labeled a disappointment, I'd say that's wise.
I see what you mean, although using maps as an example is a bit inaccurate, as most games as a service give new maps for free to avoid splitting the playerbase. Getting maps that way rather than in $10-20 map packs that only a fraction of the playerbase ended up buying is actually one of the only positive developments of the gaas trend.
It is a harm if the game's (and the dev's) signature mode is PVE, but hype about a tacked on PVP mode to one of their games causes them to go all in on PVP and make a disaster of a game. Which of course is what happened.
@Sonic-and-Crash
You are right that game sales on the Wii for basically everything except Just Dance cratered beginning in about 2010, but we haven't seen that happen with Switch, and there is no evidence that it is going to happen.
Let's not get all worked up about the PVP. I'm convinced that the people who wouldn't stop harping about the PVP in L4D2 are the reason we got Evolve instead of a real co-op game.
So in other words there will be more than 22 million PS5 owners by early 2022 but we are going to keep getting games gimped for a 2013 CPU for probably a year after that. Who do you think is going to buy Horizon and God of War, the hardcore 22 million who upgraded or the millions of casuals sticking with PS4 to play Warzone and watch Netflix?
Lol COD and sports games are about the only situations where cross gen makes sense. People always say "but the install base!" when anyone complains about cross gen, but in the case of more hardcore games, the install base numbers between new and old consoles don't matter much because the hardcore who actually buy games are the ones who move to the new consoles (this was exemplified by Hitman 3 on PS5 doubling the PS4 version's sales in the UK). However, the casuals who buy C...
The weirdest component to me is that this is happening before 8 comes out. You'd think they'd stagger them in such a way that there would always be at least one game in the series (I'm counting the Horizon games separately) that they could sell.
This is why trophies/achievements are really more interesting in a game by game situation. Like, someone's overall number means very little because I know they might have played a bunch of nonsense to get there. But it is very interesting to look at what specific games they platinumed and if they got any hard ones.
I'm thinking about doing this as well. I wonder if it will recognize significantly slower drives. I'll be interested to see people test this out. Presumably you'd also still get better loading of PS4 games from a slower SSD than you would from an external drive.
Groan. Half steps are stupid. Putting out a "Switch Pro" won't fix the performance of games on the 85+ million Switches already out there, just like PS4 Pro didn't fix PS4 and One X didn't fix the One.
Well. That's annoying. Quick Resume would be particularly useful for this type of game. Oh well.