mysteriousmage09
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Fucking EA.....
This reminds me of when someone in OT said that Beauty and The Beast had flop written all over it. >> Anthem's concept is like guaranteed to sell.
Its pretty ballsy after the BF2 lootbox backlash. They dont give a fuck.I actually can't get over that game statement. Every single sentence makes me angry.
Obviously this sucks a lot, especially considering this studio put out some great games last gen. But to play devil's advocate--This is a game we know nothing about, and it was in development for years (3 or 4?). It feels possible, if not probable that it was a shitshow behind the scenes and was bleeding money without an end in sight, putting EA between a rock and a hard place.
I don't know how Bethesda will react with all their recent SP failures.
Youre totally right, but I love big production games more. And I will lament their death.
None of those game had the market appeal that Anthem does. They were all B-tier games.Much like how the last two Metal of Honour games were garunteed to sell. Or how Fuse was garunteed to sell. Or how Dead Space 3 was garunteed to sell. You get the point.
Its funny that the only games we want as a "games as a service" from EA are their sport games and they sure as hell will never do that lol.
Sony
Nintendo
Bethesda
'AAA Indie' like Hellblade or Obduction
Some Warner stuff, I guess
It's not over yet but we do seem to be on a wobbly bridge which is claiming more and more victims.
Its pretty ballsy after the BF2 lootbox backlash. They dont give a fuck.
I don't know how Bethesda will react with all their recent SP failures.
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None of those game had the market appeal that Anthem does. They were all B-tier games.
Whether or not the industry will crash, I find myself increasingly disinterested in the hobby outside of Nintendos stuff. I have no idea what angle Sony and Microsoft are going to take with their next consoles, but the Pro and X dont leave me optimistic. Games are moving in a worse and worse direction by the year, it seems. If I dont care for the best graphics, shooters or sports games, loot boxes, or multiplayer in general, what is there for me? Increasingly less and less.
RIP Dead Space and Dante's Inferno. And EA probably won't greenlight American McGee's Alice 3 pitch either.
Fucking EA.
Its not just possible, it's the norm for Sony. Horizon is a perfect example. Bethesda Games Studio does it as well (despite my opinions on the overall quality of Fallout 4).I think it is fundamentally *possible* to design a game that is perfectly satisfying as a standalone $60 single player game AND has elements that make for a good platform for future DLC, but unfortunately it's apparently way too tempting to do "pay us money to beat the game/not be completely hobbled in the in-game economy" sort of stuff, aka crippling players who don't pay in.
Were heading toward a crash. I guess Im in the minority now where I will never buy a loot box
We're talking about Star Wars. A Star Wars game at the level of quality of something like Uncharted with 8~10/10s would knock sales out of the park.
Henning knows how to make a SP story driven game.
DA MP gonna be lit
It feels like it's just a matter of time for those ones.
B-tier in terms of reception.Those all had huge budgets and killed or almost killed their respective studios and killed all those franchises.
How is there enough time/money to go around for the average person when you make everything a service that you want people to stick around and keep pouring money into? Won't people just gravitate towards a few or one big game(s) per genre like they have historically done with other service models like MMOs and WoW, Streaming and Netflix etc. The average person can't afford to casually throw money away in all of these games like these publishers want just like the average person wasn't going to have multiple subscriptions to MMOs or subscriptions to the 40 million streaming services that popped up post netflix. I fear we are going to see huge games that get all the users and a bunch of failures with a few modest successes under this model. Good luck.
Not as much as open world would. While still costing just as much, if not more, because people demand higher quality for that sort of game.
Also, there's a real chance that they thought the game wasn't going to be very good, and MEA demonstrated that they couldn't chuck it out the door hoping to scrape by with 8s and move forward.
lol, that was never happening anyway.
For whacky and wonderful platforming action we'll just have to hope Psychonauts 2 is good.
Were heading toward a crash. I guess Im in the minority now where I will never buy a loot box
You think that's where EA is getting their data from and not industry wide trends?
Were they all laid-off or were they relocated?
None of those game had the market appeal that Anthem does. They were all B-tier games.
Its not just possible, it's the norm for Sony. Horizon is a perfect example. Bethesda Games Studio does it as well (despite my opinions on the overall quality of Fallout 4).
B-tier in terms of reception.
Sony
Nintendo
Bethesda
'AAA Indie' like Hellblade or Obduction
Some Warner stuff, I guess
It's not over yet but we do seem to be on a wobbly bridge which is claiming more and more victims.
We will see how long that last. Horizon 2 with a battle royale mode incoming...You're not the only one. Gambling has no place in computer games as far as I'm concerned. I'm genuinely saddened with the direction most AAA games are now at. I guess I'll stick to mostly AA games. At least Sony still seems to care about single player only.