@drnknnmd: you didn’t actually read the comments, did you? I see far more people complaining that they are ignoring the much louder demand for more single player focus. Being a little more “woke” is just good business sense in today’s social climate. If they actually cared about the oppressed, they wouldn’t be targeting the wallets of people whose lives are so miserable they have to live vicariously through a video game, while the whales who can actually afford it reap all the best rewards without a care in the world.
I can understand not punching down, it doesn’t really matter that much to me personally but I get it. we live in a very politically correct period right now. What I don’t understand is that they ignore the much louder demand for story expansion beyond the goddamn online model. And I’m not exactly jumping for joy at the “even more interiors than previous titles”. It’s not like GTAV was littered with building interiors. Most buildings were inaccessible. The concrete jungle loses a ton of its playground space without its interiors. There could be SO much more to do in a city with fully realized interiors. I might even be willing to play online if I could utilize all the hiding spots and jumpy spots.
Does defeating Venom unlock him in the roster? Seeing his base model in the cinematic gives me hope that we may see him join the Midnight Sons once he is freed.
Could we get Man-Thing in there as DLC?
Last but not least, you promised the MTX would only be cosmetic, but how much emphasis will there be on a fun experience and earned functional rewards?
i ask that last question because I can forgive MTX cosmetics in a paid game, but you have to supplement that with a fun experience and functional rewards that keep the player engaged throughout the life of the game. I don’t mind paying or grinding for cosmetics, but they can’t be the only rewards in a paid game, and don’t starve us with the functional rewards in order to coax us into buying cosmetic rewards. If I start getting too hungry, I end up walking away. I only have so much money I’m willing to spend on your game. I don’t need the MTX cosmetics having any influence on how often you reward me with the other stuff. Otherwise, you starve me of those functional rewards in the hopes that I buy something cosmetic, I start sensing the game is predatory, I leave a bad review, I stop playing, and I stop buying your games. I switch to games that don’t abandon casual players and cater the live service to the whales. There’s are tons of games out there right now who pinky promise that the only MTX content will be “cosmetic”, but then they don’t include any other means to reward the player, or they start depriving the player of functional rewards later in the game so players feel that need for a dopamine boost just before they get prompted with another special offer to buy a cosmetic loot box or whatever. OR the functional items get COMPLETELY abandoned in all post launch content in favor of what should be a F2P model, and all those promises of future content that were used to sell the game wind up being nothing more than flashy MTX farms with very little reward for people who already paid for the game. If you want to be a respected studio AND make money off MTX, you have to avoid those predatory monetization tactics. Don’t abandon players enjoyment for the content that makes money.
Having someone know where you were was just part of the fun, lol. You knew each other’s strateies and what the other guy was getting, so you knew when they had the upper hand. It was funny chasing my brother out of an area, getting a grenade or rocket launcher, and then finding him cornered in a dead end room and just aiming at the door. He’d see where I was and just be like “well shit….” Then he’d do the same to me. It was just a different experience when you both know.
They pump out A bunch of hallmark style crap that a Few people watch ritualistically, but don’t realize that other people in the same household will recommend cancelling Netflix for better programming. Views aren’t what keep people subscribed, engaging interesting content is. If we can’t have more Black Mirror, try making something to fill that gap people are missing. Get behind some much demanded projects like 28 months later. Do a found footage adaptation of Shadow Over Innsmouth about a group of film students and get Ralph Ineson as Zadock, and have him deliver a monologue comparable to the USS Indianapolis speech from Jaws. You can make good shit on a budget, just find some worthwhile projects to get behind. Let people make their dream films and don’t meddle. Need a pitch for a show? Sure, here. Alfred Molina plays a modern day interpretation of Leonardo Da Vinci who is older than Da Vinci lived to be historically, and thus struggles with his mortality, whose knack for inventing led to him becoming a tech Billionaire, but his ideas are more helpful than profitable, so his own company took him off the table. So he starts over, competing with his own company that he still profits from, and travels around helping bright minds solve problems and Offers them jobs working with him if he’s impressed by their work. Some of his inventions bare the same names as art works he created in history. An Android called the Vitruvian Man, a digital assistant called Mona Lisa, etc. There ya go Netflix.
I’ve warmed up to Sean Murray. They guy gets excited for all the things he plans to put in his games, he’s a dreamer with ambitions. Maybe saying it out loud makes him feel obligated, I don’t know. It’s indeed a terrible PR strategy and I don’t think I’ll ever trust his word at face value anymore until we see gameplay. But in terms of ambition, I like that he strives to Push the industry forward.
I’m hoping his next project is to generate one planet with biomes and lots of details. Or do something with a huge detailed city with interiors or something. Compress all that effort into a smaller area.
@Treadstone71: On a semi-related note, this is why I don’t like the premise of switching to streaming services for gaming. You’d see a lot more of this time exclusive bullshit that exists purely for artificial scarcity.
@PETERAKO: Destiny was such a great concept for a game, but it was severely mishandled by Activision. Both games were abandoned by me after the first expansion. It just seemed too slow, too much invested for too little reward. I had hoped that they’d just move on and do Destiny 3 once Bungie was on its own. Seems like I’ve been missing out on some good stuff according to some people, but with the removal of all that content, I feel like I don’t really have the incentive to come back. So I guess I’ll wait and see if anything changes with the next installment, but this doesn’t look good on Bungie. Artificial scarcity is a very predatory and non-consumer friendly practice.
Of course they are, because they plan on dialing back on selling hardware. They don’t want you to own your hardware in a decade, they want full control over it server-side. Hence the move towards streaming games. No surprise that Microsoft is also competing in the big AI race right now. Better to offer AI as an online service that they can control your usage of than to let you have direct access to the software that could be used to make their company obsolete.
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