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Nacon exec says industry's problem is "too many games" (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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[–] Hildegarde 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If games are shorter people buy more of them.

Back in the day, so many studios tried to unseat wow with a fantasy mmo of their own. Seems an unwise strategy when playing an mmo is nearly a full time occupation. Very few players will have the time for more than one. Bad strategy. Which is why nearly every wow killer died.

Its clear the industry learned nothing when they started pushing perpetual live service games. Why would anyone play EA's destiny clone when they could instead play destiny, especially when the time investment makes it infeasible to play both?

Now the big thing is the battle pass, that demand tens of hours to complete. Same issue there. Can most players justify more than one battle pass subscription? Probably not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Why would anyone play EA’s destiny clone when they could instead play destiny, especially when the time investment makes it infeasible to play both?

There's a big reward for being second or third to market, but not too much beyond that. A few MMOs saw plenty of success despite WoW. League of Legends and Dota are massively successful, but Smite did well too. Minecraft is huge, but so is Terraria and Starbound. PUBG, Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Warzone are huge, but Hyperscape couldn't cut it.