Or they want to give people incentive to try the service, as research may show that users tend to stick with it.
I game share with my brother, and wanted to play a few games with him that I didn't feel like buying. Forza, Halo MCC and Sea of Thieves. I only had a copy of Halo physical, so I sold it. Anyways, we decided to split Game Pass, and for five bucks a month I get to play all those games and more until I feel like canceling it. Not a bad deal, considering if I bought those three games alone it would be over $100 easily. Alternatively, you split Gold and Game Pass with someone, and you get hun...
And with the rest of the DLC being canceled, FFXV will always be an incomplete game. What a waste of potential. It's a shame too, because with a PC version, modders could have implemented the DLC and movie scenes into the base game to make a more cohesive experience. Which honestly SE should have done...
I could argue that people that download and emulate old games probably also are some of the highest spenders on gaming and gaming merch as well.
Pcsx is open source, requires no bios, and was built in a way that violates no copyrights. It is a completely legal emulator. Procuring games to play on it is another matter. It's just ironic and hypocritical, because the industry is fighting so hard against roms and emulation, but literally, they have to use open-source tools that their PAYING FANS have built, because these companies haven't invested their own time in preserving their own products. The PS Classic probably wouldn'...
Activision and EA should just merge so we have one supervillian to fight against lol.
It's basically a hidden subscription fee, considering once expansions are released, they will lock you out of content you were able to play prior. Honestly, Destiny should just be turned into a full blown MMORPG.
They're not losing money, just not making as much as they want, which is all of it lol. Acvtision/Blizzard is one the the top gaming publishers there is, and made billions this year.
Tell that to Morrowind lol.
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Oh, wait, THAT kind of big deal. Jesus, I thought attacking video games went out of style in the 90s.
No one's talking about the implications of this, and just focusing on Sony market share instead lol (impressive regardless). If people who pay for subscriptions spend more on games, that means everyone's going to want to push towards subscription models.
Well, when the console outsells the competition by multiples, that's pretty obvious lol. I would say it's probably number 1 selling across Xbox and PS4 right now, and will be on PC as well if it ever gets a version.
Yep. They'd rather have mobile market as their customer base than PC gamers and they're letting us all know it lol. They're probably going to start marketing their mobile games inside of Overwatch even, if I had to guess. Menu pop-ups, product placement within maps, etc. That game has pulled in a massively diverse audience, and I believe has the highest female base in history for any FPS. Women also tend to play more mobile games.
They've been crap for like a decade lol. Diablo 3 was terrible and broken at launch (literally couldn't connect to servers), with an auction house to pay for items with real money, as well as always online. Also it came after a 12 year wait from 2. Hearthstone is absolutely pay to win, as grinding for cards without is ridiculously time consuming. They sold to Activision. WoW is awful now, and they've been riding on that game since 2004. Turned it into a casual experience years ago...
And yet EA and Blizzard both still made billions this year, and are two of the most profitable publishers. Sucks, doesn't it? On a positive note though, Sony and Nintendo pretty much blow everyone else out of the water.
If Diablo does well, expect everyone to jump in. I mean, it's been happening for years though, Halo even has mobile games. Mario, Pokemon, Diablo, Final Fantasy. Lol, watch Blizzard announce a new Warcraft and Lost Vikings as mobile titles xD
I'm gonna just end up switching to only retro gaming and emulation soon it seems like.
Hey, don't talk down on their dream$.
I didn't say I did lol. Better of playing Path of Exile. It's free, and Diablo 2 devs work on it.
What happens if the entire market DOES move towards all that, and Sony gets left behind? What if huge companies like Square Enix, EA, Ubisoft, etc, all want their games on streaming services and companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft (who all have very deep pockets) start paying or offering good deals for exclusivity, and have superior platforms regarding that? If that ever happens, would there be a content shortage on a Playstation? Future technology is going to be wild, and market/pard...
They're not going anywhere; These companies are just gearing up to consciously ditch us (traditional, non-casual gamers) as customers in favor of more casual markets once everything is mobile, subscriptions and streaming. It seems painfully obvious to me.
I own hundreds of video games across many platcorms, it's just something I wanted to help my little bro with. Bought him an Xbox, put my account on it, split game pass. Very economic.