this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2024
252 points (97.0% liked)

Games

16718 readers
770 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Like the Borderlands movie I'm not really sure who this game is for with the price tag they are asking for it with the f2p options available.

[–] ampersandrew 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The price tag is likely to try to slow the bleeding when the writing was on the wall.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't know why they keep insisting on live service with an upfront cost. The only way these games are successful is by having a fuckton of teenagers with no money to fill the lobbies and make it feel lively and worthwhile. The minute you add an initial cost, there's just not enough of a player base to support a game with microtransactions.

I'm not a business genius, but they don't have to learn from me. There is the very clear precedent of Kill the justice league that they're choosing to ignore!

[–] ampersandrew 1 points 2 months ago

Kill the Justice League is playable solo and debuted at a peak concurrent user count that was higher than Concord's by two orders of magnitude.

[–] Angry_Autist 1 points 2 months ago

the MBAs running the gaming industry now are so out of touch