That’s the most baffling MMO decision I’ve seen, tbh. WoW has plenty of issues but at least they aren’t just deleting the continent of Northrend to save on install space or anything
That’s the most baffling MMO decision I’ve seen, tbh. WoW has plenty of issues but at least they aren’t just deleting the continent of Northrend to save on install space or anything
Star Citizen is an exclusively online game, though?
I still don’t know what exactly it was about Assassins Creed Odyssey that made it work so well for me overall, but I liked the level scaling in it. Areas had a minimum level, so I’d try to go there at lower levels and get my ass beat. But being higher level didn’t make the areas that much easier, because they would scale up to me. What gave me a feeling of progression was my available toolkit to deal with enemies as time went on.
They wanted it to be a live service, which is famously expensive to develop. They have to pay people to be constantly developing content on top of the insane prices of releasing and marketing a AAA game in the first place. Usually these games make money through microtransactions and/or subscription fees but no one wanted to play the game in the first place so hardly anyone was buying any of the extra content after initial release.
Obviously Sony is unhappy with the performance of the PS5 considering how much they’ve been trying to push PC ports lately. Not to mention Square Enix citing disappointing sales for their last couple of critically acclaimed Final Fantasy games as the reason they’re going to focus on multi-platform support going forward.
I think AI could be great for more powerful procedural generation. Rather than just using AI generated textures like some games do now I think AI could be great for tiling and adding variation to pre existing textures within games without making it look “AI generated” for example.
Yeah I was literally playing System Shock on Linux just a couple hours ago with maybe only a couple more hitches than in my windows install
They have some new IPs but they’re purely game publishers nowadays, primarily more indie and AA titles afaik Edit: write this without looking, looks like they do also sell old consoles and some controllers and such as well.
I’ve heard this current season is good but I haven’t played Diablo 4
It’s wild seeing overwatch 2 do so poorly while world of warcraft is simultaneously having its best expansion cycle it’s had in a very very long time between retail actually being fun and season of discovery
Yeah especially now that it’s very clearly the game plan. It works when people aren’t certain a PC port is coming but now that we know every PlayStation game gets a PC port, why bother?
I can see an argument for PSN and to a lesser degree Steam being anti-competitive. But from this article they seem to be implying a major point is them being digital markets pushing out “traditional” game sales, which sounds silly to me.
Ask Irish people what they think about the drink “Irish car bomb”
I don’t really see how this would compete with Stardew Valley, honestly, sounds more like the initial Sims comparison is more apt. Stardew and Sims are pretty different games
It’s the difference between emulating the system to run that rom and just actually playing it on your computer
Peanut butter?
Ofc they do
we still need to say Diablo clone because everything is an ARPG now, look at the tag on Steam
WoW has been doing really well, but Overwatch 2 has been doing so poorly that most people aren’t paying any attention lol. That and the lawsuits they’ve had, but then they also have a union that Microsoft has stated they won’t be hindering. Activision Blizzard is a weird company to follow right now.
Sky is wonderful but after you’ve played through it and explored around a bit, the content cycle is pretty obnoxious and requires you to really play damn near every day hardcore to unlock all the stuff in their season pass before it’s gone. Fortunately 99.9% of it is purely cosmetic and the bits that aren’t are just little toys, so you can easily just play it for the actual game content, which doesn’t really go away.