Good. I have no empathy for huge corporate bullies. In fact if the leaks are true, they deserve it even more for their audacity. I mean a survival monster catcher game? Seriously?
Saw the 120€ price tag of the special edition+ and was so disgusted I lost all interest in it immediately. I mean even the base game price seems too steep but that‘s just a huge red flag for me. Definitely a contender of „might pick it up for a tenner on a sale in a few years.“
Larian also had to sell 30% of their company to Tencent to raise more money during development after they already raised money on Kickstarter. If it was a case of WotC just giving money they probably wouldn‘t have had to do that. Good games take time but also a lot of money. Let‘s hope they‘re not selling more of their company any time soon because they could end up being the one being pointed at.
To be fair it‘s as absurd as it was inevitable. Gamepass was always meant as this temporary thing you can try out to play some new games until everyone jumps ship because of increased prices. It has been preached for years. No one could‘ve seriously thought this was a long term alternative to buying games or at least buying licenses to games on Steam. All online subscriptions are scams in the process.
The funny thing is the original is only playable with fan patches so technically I can see demand for a remaster. They just really fumbled this in a weird way.
They‘re instead making a farming focused game next that looks an awful lot like Nintendo‘s upcoming Ditto game. That itself looks a lot like a Palworld clone with Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley characteristics.
Personally I would’ve preferred they overhaul base building in Palworld itself just the way they presented their new game because it‘s rather shallow in the former and yet has too many overlaps with the latter for me to justify a new purchase.
If they‘re going to release a shooter it will no doubt have a lot of overlaps with Palworld too.
I didn‘t see footage or screenshots where they literally stole the likeness of a character. It would be bad if they did that but I‘ve seen no evidence of it. As far as I know mixing generic tribe aesthetic with generic sci-fi aesthetic can‘t be protected either. I don‘t want to repeat my previous comment but I don‘t see the issue here. It would open a barrel of worms for the entire industry if vague aesthetics are suddenly protected. The lawsuits would never stop and small dev teams would make concessions left and right to fence off armies of lawyers.
Which still should not be illegal, right? And believe me I have no problem when Sony and Tencent go at each other‘s throat. Let them fight. But I remember reading the same type of discussion about Palworld. You can‘t protect a style or a genre. Especially when said genre is as old as the medium. Unless Tencent stole code or use the exact same names it should still be legally distinct enough to be perfectly fine. It‘s up to consumers if they want to buy a blatant ripoff.
I don‘t think it does anything for game preservation. What is it preserving exactly? Not the titles. Those are subscription based. A piece of plastic where you can insert your handheld in? Just get a cheap VR headset for your phone. And if Nintendo thought Wario Land was so great then why did they stop making those games like 2 decades ago?