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NOT_RICK, 4 miesiące temu do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

Pokémon go isn’t a fun game, it’s just a fomo wealth extractor. I got up to level 42 and finally cut it off

ABCDE, 4 miesiące temu

Wealth in what way? I think I gave them five pounds but that’s was it. I’ve gotten a lot more out of it than that.

NOT_RICK, 4 miesiące temu

Once you get to a certain point the only way to get new pokemon is to grind eggs and they set the drop rates for some so low it takes dozens and dozens of eggs to get them. Then you have the regional pokemon that are normally impossible to get without travel that will become available for special events if you shell out for 10+ bucks. Its manipulative

ABCDE, 4 miesiące temu

I think I have all the ones from eggs which are possible, I’d need to check though. Regional Pokémon haven’t been limited for a while, you can get them in 7km eggs which you get from others.

MeatsOfRage, 4 miesiące temu

Year 1 I went hard on pokemon go, I committed to the original 150 (I don’t recognize anything past red and blue) that were available and in my region then peaced out. There wasn’t anything there past my nostalgia.

Shou, 4 miesiące temu do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

It’s boring. All you do is collect digital bottlecaps.

ABCDE, 4 miesiące temu

There’s more to it than that.

Bezier, 4 miesiące temu

I tried it way back when it launched, and before that, the whatever previous non-pokemon game they made. I didn’t stick to it, and today I wouldn’t touch a location tracking game with a long pole, but there was more fun in it than just collecting fake creatures or whatever. Going out for a walk and making my way to places marked on the game map was cool. I found some interesting landmarks that I had no idea about before.

MacedWindow, 4 miesiące temu do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

I had fun with Go when it launched, but haven’t played in years. What I love about it though is how many"non- traditional" gamers play it. I’ve had more than one 50+ coworker I’ve known tell me they play it often, and do no other gaming besides it. Two of my sisters also play, and they don’t play any other games. I think that’s awesome.

Gork, 4 miesiące temu do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

I liked it when I was pandered to. Pokémon Go to the Polls

psyc, 4 miesiące temu do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

I haven’t played in the last year or so but the game did age very well. I played it like everyone else when it first came out and the novelty quickly wore off and the game had very little depth. I revisited it many years later on a whim and was surprised with how much content had been added. I ended up playing regularly for a few years after that with my wife. The game is definitely dependent on where you live and now that I’m in a more rural area I don’t play very much but even in a medium population city it’s was very enjoyable. I joined a local discord and we attended many community days and it was a great deal of fun and very social. Fond memories, and I hope to revisit the game again

Downcount, 4 miesiące temu do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

Ah Pokémon Go, aka we are selling shinies for cash.

camr_on, 4 miesiące temu do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

I haven’t played in a while but a ton of my friends are into it, including people who normally wouldn’t be into gaming or Pokemon. I don’t totally get it but they’re doing something right

RealFknNito, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu) do games w CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games"

Hammering and saw noises.

Ah, there it is. CDPR is rebuilding their reputation after Cyberpunk’s launch. Nature is healing.

fsxylo, 4 miesiące temu

As it was with witcher 3, AKA “get off the roof, roach!”

MonkderZweite, 4 miesiące temu do games w CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games"

“But we do not rule out that we will use this solution in the future.”

Yeah, what now?

GoodEye8, 4 miesiące temu

That’s why the top management should never be listened to. The CFO saying that means literally nothing because they will turn around and put MTX in single player games if they feel like they can get away with it. Their word is worthless because their goal is money.

Psythik, 4 miesiące temu

When it comes to multiplayer games.

Please actually read the article next time.

wahming, 4 miesiące temu

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say there’s not much place for MTX in multiplayer games either

Lojcs, 4 miesiące temu do games w CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games"

What’s with the drip feed CDPR pr articles?

Tattorack, 4 miesiące temu

They want their reputation back.

approxamatrix, 4 miesiące temu

CD(PR)^2

Threeme2189, 4 miesiące temu

Which one is more fitting? (CDPR)PR or CDPRᴾᴿ?

cookie_sabotage, 4 miesiące temu

CDP^2^2PRR^2^

nevemsenki, 4 miesiące temu do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

Any game that makes people actually move is good in my book.

Visstix, 4 miesiące temu do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

It would be a lot less boring if not the same pokemon spawned over and over again in fases. There are so many pokemon but you keep finding a couple.

hal_5700X, 4 miesiące temu do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

Okay but we have this article from pokemongohub.net, Pokémon GO’s yearly revenue slumps to 2017’s levels!. So where’s truth?

Aielman15, 4 miesiące temu do games w CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games"

But they see a place for broken games that are sold by lying to their customers and maybe fixed two years later. Fuck off, CDPR. Are you sure you are the right people to do the moral?

BambiDiego, 4 miesiące temu

CDPR also saw no place for a crunch culture in game development… Until they did

echodot, 4 miesiące temu

Crunch is only necessary if something has already gone pretty seriously wrong, either it was feature creep or the time scales were unrealistic, or you pull a Bethesda and try to build a game that’s way outside the scope of your own ancient game engine.

Archelon, 4 miesiące temu

Unethical working conditions are never necessary.

cyberpunk007, 4 miesiące temu

I still love that company. The witcher 3 was amazing, easily one of my favourite games of all time. Cyberpunk had some issues sure, I got it a year or so after release and had fun with it. I really like gog and how everything has no drm and I spend a lot of money there. Compare that to almost every other major competitor and these people are saints.

Aielman15, 4 miesiące temu

Cyberpunk had some issues sure

“Some issues” is a very kind way of putting it. The game was unplayable and had frequent crashes and game breaking bugs. Even now, it’s never really been fixed for old gen (the gen it was marketed for and sold in a console bundle with), they just turned it into a ghost town, reducing NPC spawn rate and turning off environmental lights to reduce the stress on the system.

And worse of all, they knew all of that, and still sold a broken product, and to ensure that people would buy it, they didn’t allow journalists to record their play sessions, only allowing them to use CDPR’s marketing videos in their reviews. I could still forgive them for releasing a broken product on the market and fixing it at a later date, if they were at least sincere with their fanbase, but they chose to lie through their teeth because money was more important than integrity.

The fact that they eventually fixed the game on another generation is not enough for me.

deathmetal27, 4 miesiące temu do gaming w Sega layoffs hit 240 staff, including at Total War studio Creative Assembly

Creating Hyenas in a market already full of such shooters was the dumbest decision.

Also IIRC, Relic actually found an independent investor and thus did a management buyout from Sega rather than being sold outright.