Endgame
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 8:38 am
http://www.develop-online.net/news/4338 ... s-in-house
We are putting up with injustices that mostly only old school gamers (the illuminated ones) have a problem with: holding back content and selling as DLC and all the rest I do not need to repeat.
Microtransactions won't be exclusive to EA alone. All the big publishers will adopt the business models of the competition, just like this generation.
What to expect next gen:
Always-on consoles.
Increase in development costs (which will result in a increase in devs appealing to a broader audience).
Closing of more smaller studios.
In-game ads.
Even less originality & more franchise abuse.
Microtransactions.
Profit????
I refuse to be pushed to the confines of the PC indie game market only. Other than that, the only big company seemingly reliable left is CDProjeckt. I cannot rely on a single console-centric dev/pub anymore either. We need to unite under the revolutionist flag of the NSF (Non-sufficient funds)!
Shame it had to turn out like this. The classics will remain eternal at least. Next gen is approaching, a new age, where greedy pretentious old men reign gods over the industry!
/Conspiracy themed novice rhetoric ending on a downer and ultimately failing in it's original purpose because of this.
What? I was bored and felt like some creative ranting. Though some of it should be taken seriously.
It's not bullshit either. They do market research, obviously. EA's all-seeing eye in the gaming world. EA are a corporation only concerned with $$$. Every action taken is in the interest of profit, therefore they have analyzed and come to the conclusion that this is the way forward and that "gamers" will eat it up as usual."We're building into all of our games the ability to pay for things along the way, either to get to a higher level to buy a new character, to buy a truck, a gun, whatever it might be, and consumers are enjoying and embracing that way of the business."
We are putting up with injustices that mostly only old school gamers (the illuminated ones) have a problem with: holding back content and selling as DLC and all the rest I do not need to repeat.
Microtransactions won't be exclusive to EA alone. All the big publishers will adopt the business models of the competition, just like this generation.
What to expect next gen:
Always-on consoles.
Increase in development costs (which will result in a increase in devs appealing to a broader audience).
Closing of more smaller studios.
In-game ads.
Even less originality & more franchise abuse.
Microtransactions.
Profit????
I refuse to be pushed to the confines of the PC indie game market only. Other than that, the only big company seemingly reliable left is CDProjeckt. I cannot rely on a single console-centric dev/pub anymore either. We need to unite under the revolutionist flag of the NSF (Non-sufficient funds)!
Shame it had to turn out like this. The classics will remain eternal at least. Next gen is approaching, a new age, where greedy pretentious old men reign gods over the industry!
/Conspiracy themed novice rhetoric ending on a downer and ultimately failing in it's original purpose because of this.
What? I was bored and felt like some creative ranting. Though some of it should be taken seriously.