>NFTs
>blockchain
>loot boxes
>f2p
>delisting your digital game and removing it
What is the next anti consumer horror waiting in the wings?
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>NFTs. >blockchain. >loot boxes. >f2p. >delisting your digital game and removing it
how long until we go back to an arcade system where you have to pay to play each time you die
Barcades are a thing now, so now I guess.
But I think they run on a subscription pass system now.
never, because the most profitable arcade systems were those that were either the most fun or the most casual
whereas the most profitable mobile games eclipse the most profitable arcade games simply by hooking in the most whales and being the most efficient at turning tourist players into whales
Theres already an arcade game out there, 1$ 3 matches or you can pay 20 dollars iirc per month, what a steal, huh?
Literally any mobile game that uses "stamina" as a resource to play.
GIVE ME YOUR HAT
>describe dystopian hell
>but good!
These """"people""""" must be stopped.
What does blockchain have to do with anticonsumerism? Do you even know what it is?
not only is it extremely inefficient for video games, it lends itself very well to scams and the most israeli of payment models: Play-to-earn
if you read that "fantasy" and it translated as anything other than endless grinding and microtransactions then i can only assume youre some monkey peddler. i right click at you homosexual.
>5% drop rate
>only four in existence
That means, on average, less than 100 people play that game
Which is a fair metric
It doesn't matter whats next, the ultimate anti-consumer tactics already won: DLC and paid online. Proving they can access your wallet almost on a whim has already ruined video games, as now things that used to be standard parts of games are chopped off and sold piecemeal to you homosexuals.
If you dumb homosexuals didn't buy fricking Xbox's and XBL and fricking horse armor, the rest of us wouldn't be fricked today.
DLC isn't inherently bad, moron. It's only a digital form of the expansion packs or full-price updated versions that used to be sold (like every fighting game on home systems that would come with several full-price updated versions which tweaked the balance a bit and added a few new characters), which even back then could reach Paradox levels (just look at The Sims before The Sims 3). DLC can both mean several hours of new content or a small cosmetic item. Moreover, DLC is simply an inevitable byproduct of games being sold more and more on digital markets rather than physical, which itself is an inevitable byproduct of increasing internet bandwidth speed for consumers and the desire for developers to sidestep the need for a publisher + setting up their own digital payment infrastructure to sell their games with.
Blaming DLC just for existing and becoming popular is not only inaccurate but also frankly useless, just as it is useless that new technologies eventually eclipse the need for older ones. It assumes that a parallel universe even exists where people would reject a newer more convenient technology, although that is frankly impossible in our current neoliberal climate.
>it's not bad!
>it's just only used in the worst possible ways
Sounds like it's fricking bad then, butthole.
>>it's just only used in the worst possible ways
if your claim is that it's just used in "only" the worst possible ways, then [citation needed]
yes dlc is inherently bad. if you want to add on to your game make a full expansion. which means there had better be atleast 50% of the base games content in new stuff if not outright matching the base game. if you dont have enough ideas for that then whatever youre adding should have been in the base game and i cant see it as anything other than charging people for missing features that you were too inept to include originally.
That's a great way to kill people's interest on videogames.
Actually, this market needs another 1983's crash, but this time Nintendo needs to give a middle finger to it.
Nintendo is the fricking Disney of gaming, they need to crash harder than anyone else at this point with their shitty practices you dullard frick.
yeah, how dare they make gameplay-focused games that are good and fun instead of 8-hour-long cinematic experiences
>defending Disney vault era Nintendo
Imagine being this much of a knob slobbering homosexual.
>REEEE WHY DO THEY KEEP MAKING VIDEO GAMES THAT ARE ACTUALLY FUN TO PLAY THEY'RE MAKING MY BELOVED PLAYSTATION LOOK BAD
Also bad, homosexual. You have no leg to stand on, the entire industry is in fricking shambles and you think pointing out some other obviously bad shit is bad.
As was said, the industry needs a tremendous crash to fix itself once again.
you're not fooling anyone, Snoy
>all BAD
>you must be a sony
Great logic from the Nintendy fanbase, as always.
>everything is bad
>but Nintendo is DEFINITELY the worst!
transparent
You're the one who specifically singled out Nintendo, anon is just responding to it
>You're the one who specifically singled out Nintendo,
>Nintendo is the fricking Disney of gaming, they need to crash harder than anyone else at this point with their shitty practices you dullard frick.
>but this time Nintendo needs to give a middle finger to it
Or you could just stop playing AAA shit
>Muh Sony
Every time.
Rent only monthly subscription
>the year is 2030
>not starving to death or working in a reeducation camp, starving to death
A 5% drop rate is 1 in 20. That's not even rare. Everyone would have one of those moronic orbs.
it makes sense when nobody is playing the game
in 2030 my son will be 9 years old and neither of us will be playing any of that shite
for pc? easy, every new game has denuvo
for consoles? ban retrocompatibility overall and make every game require connection to go past main menu
older games will be more difficult, but still possible if you nuke downloading sites
we have allowed piracy to die, now we live with the consequences
>Vereecke
>Ganker rek e
but what does it mean
One letter away from verrecke
Nicolas Verrecke = Fricking croak nicholas lol
more like "Nicolas Die A Miserable Death", but I get your point
nvm, got it
>Ganker reek, e(w)
lmao this would imply that every dev has to cooperate and use the same things. they need to create options for the things in other games to be used in theirs. game no longer have their own resource economies, all is one and one is all. there is no single player experience. this is hands down the biggest reason why this shit would never be successful.
>that Twitter post
>one of those game servers goes offline
Oopsie woopsie, sorry about that. Maybe you can redo that work in Edler Chain 2! Transfer? Oh ho ho ho, nah, its a new experience, we want everyone to be on a new level playing field. Thanks for the money, hope you didn't spend that much on all that stuff since we know your time isn't valuable to us. :^)
>Life is good.
Not saying it's a good idea, but in this scenario your items are on the block chain and thus not dependent on the server status of the game you got them from. The whole stupid thing is impossible to balance because devs wouldn't be able to control the rarity of external items. If that orb suddenly got increased to a 10% drop rate it might frick up the balance in your own game and your only recourse would be to nerf the utility of the item or just let your own balance get fricked.
Tldr it's a supremely moronic idea that will never ever happen.
I was midway through Metal Gear: Revengeance on that PS+ gamepass clone, but they removed it without warning. I looked it up and I guess they're selling some $80 remaster or something of the game so that's why they took it off of there.
Still though, that's bullshit.
That sounds worse than eating shit.
Why is it always the people who have a stupid title in their profile?
>activejews have released the same game every year for a decade
>this year's entry costs $70
>it will have a store where you can spend even more money on cosmetics
>they will add weapons you can buy
>you can also grind to unlock the weapon but that would take at least 5 hours just pay the $10 anon :^)
End of legacy support from Microsoft. Games won't run locally anymore, they'll run at a Microsoft data center and stream to you.
This will require a monthly subscription fee.
These people are legitimately evil.
>you finish work and you start work, you finish work and yu start work, you finish work and you start work, you are unable to actually play these games for fun because they're work and designed entirely around being work