People buy it. People then buy the skins. I play the free to play one sometimes and nearly every single person I kill has a $30+ skin and weapons. It's saddening.
One of the funniest things with cod too now, is that people always used to say it was the same game every year, but it is actually the same game every year now, with progress and weapons carrying over.
Gone are the days of a one time purchase and a solid game. (Well in the AAA space anyway)
I hope this system works well, right now I only really read like 5 positive actual reviews and then read mostly negative ones, as that's where you find a real grasp of what a game is or isn't.
The article says nothing of the sort. They didn't phase it out. The article was released before the game officially was. It does actually say this though:
The danger for any game is simply that people stop playing, so the team focused on retention and on listening to feedback from the community to make Splitgate a “forever game” that can go years, with “seasons,” new features and maps, and so on.
Splitgate became a 2-3 month game, not a forever game. The game only had 1,600 players on Steam when it officially released, there wasn't even a spike in players on that day. It had one spike on 8th August 2021 of 67,000. The developers fumbled with their "lightning in a bottle" as they say in that article.
They are making a new one because it failed to retain the interest of the audience and the $100M from investors has to be made back, are they just gonna keep making new Splitgate's and pray on hype to sell as many skins as they can in such short amounts of time?
Exactly. It's not like they were gaining much, most games could do 1080p/60fps on the old generation anyway. 4K wasn't enough of a selling point and consoles are mainly used on TVs so there's no point in higher framerate support either. Games looked good enough for couch gaming on the old generation, so as you said, there was no point upgrading.
The Xbox One is like equivalent to a GTX 750, it's ancient. The Xbox One X is more like a GTX 1060, so should still be servicable. But they are part of the same family, so they can't make a game for one and not the other.
The problem with consoles is that they are outdated the day they release.
Dear Humanity... We regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!
Just gotta ignore the lore unless you watch videos on it. I suppose you have to make your own goal in that game, there's no set ending, you just grind until you are bored of it.
I really like the teamwork activities, raids etc. They added a really fun exotic mission which you can only duo, but the community complained you have to communicate with a partner, so probs wont get anymore of that ahaha.
Yup. Sony scammed themselves really with that one.
Destiny 2 is hard to get into as a new player, they kind of deleted all the initial story, so you kind of just get thrown in at the end now. Bungie never knew what to do with that game, they changed stuff randomly and could never decide what system they wanted.
The thing is though, it's a very fun and fluid shooter, the core gameplay is some of the best out there, it just sucks the content gets repetitive and the DLCs are all overpriced.