Boxmonkey

Battle royal is the best form of online shooters imo. I’m not a fps guy myself but watching warzone or pubg on twitch are the most entertaining fps games to watch. I really don’t enjoy the kill/death ratios of the other style games. I like the finality of being out of the game when you die rather then unless respawns with a timer.

Without console exclusives I have zero reason to own the next PlayStation. I’d hesitate buying it anyway after this trash generation.

I’m not surprised tbh. Outlaws was really everything a star wars game shouldn’t be.

I haven’t paid £70 for a game yet. I have no intention of buying games until they are on sale anymore. If any game has a physical copy I like to buy second hand.

Sony know gta6 in 60 fps will be a system seller.

I enjoyed my time with the game. I think I put about 60 hours into it. Only critique I have is the enemy type got repetitive and so did the game loop. Story got better as it went on imo.

Didn’t finish season 2. Won’t go anywhere near season 3

Why bother they cancelled all their planned games anyway.

I will be buying but waiting for a sale. The first game was great but did get repetitive by act 3

The talent has left most big studios to start their own. Gaming is healing

Live service is full of low effort cash grabs. That’s the whole point of the live service push from publishers. They can extract money from people easily that have addictive tendencies.

In shocking news!! Publishers that don’t want customer protection laws in place come out with nonsense statements to derail the stop killing games initiative.

If consoles don’t have exclusives. I don’t need a console.

Live service trash being cancelled all over the place. Executives finally realising that the public don’t need 100 different variations of the same game. People playing a popular live service game are entrenched and won’t easily move.

Sony going multi platform is short sighted and suicidal for PlayStation! They have damaged the brand quite a lot this generation with the disastrous push for live service gaming instead on single player gaming. If people can play Sony games on other platforms console says will eventually dive. Microsoft would likely be able to make a console and sell it at a loss to capture market share and dominate the market.

Whoever makes the decisions at Sony needs replacing asap imo. Long term strategy is needed asap.

Ps6 will be the first PlayStation I don’t buy day one. I will wait a few years to see what they release first. I could have lived without the ps5 up to this point tbh.

Buy studios and publishers to create market dominance and then close them all down because your management is dysfunctional and incompetent. Next stage will be trying to buy more (currently) successful studios so as to repeat the cycle.

It’s quite clear at this point that trying to fit gaming into the streaming model won’t work. Twitch is having massive problems attracting advertisers and gamepass will never break even.

@DennisReynolds keep cheerleading anti consumer practices. The corporate suits appreciate your efforts

I fully support this type of action. Digital gaming prices are disgraceful! I have purchased many second hand games for a 5th of the cost of the digital versions. If things don’t change I’ll stop gaming the second we go full digital.

Easy way to fix the problem is by letting people sell digital compiles of games, we all know they will never allow that though.

In shocking news “good game sells well” a lot of AAA studios could learn a thing or two. Spoiler “they won’t!”

Sex sells so anything suggestive will get some downloads from young lads. The internet is full of asmr vids of this crap.

Still hate it! The actual combat is much improved from the first game but the absolute misery and despair in the game made it too depressing for me. Making Ellie such an unlikable character was difficult to take. Having to play as Abby was horrible and the fact that “the revenge plot” had you kill everyone except for the person that deserved it was moronic.

You can’t really fix the game! Extraction shooters just aren’t ever going to be games for the masses. You can find an audience if the game is hardcore enough but that won’t pay the bills. You can try and make it accessible for the masses and it will feel boring and shallow.

The hype is non existent for me.

State of this list is depressing.

“Internal reviews tracking way higher than public critical response”

That should be the tagline for modern gaming.

@ChrisDeku 10k players on steam and 25k owners on psn profiles paints a drastically different picture. Every statement they’ve released about the sales of this game comes with lots of qualifying criteria.

Great update for the 20 people still playing the game 😏

If they make a new last of us game or show it needs to be with an entirely different cast. They game and show are ruined because the story was so badly done.

The show runners had been given terrible base material to work with. They’ve tried to make Ellie more likeable than the game version but that won’t save it. Unfortunately only so much you can do with the hatchet job narrative the druckman gave them.

I don’t see this one being a big seller.

@dskatter the reporting on this site changes depending on the narrative they want to push.

Truth is gamepass and other subscription models are killing game sales and revenue generated. AA games are starting to sell better than most new AAA games. This will eventually lead to huge closures.

These companies are so out of touch! They couldn’t care less about the player and just see them as cash machines.

@Neither_scene gamepass revenue isn’t really revenue generated by doom though! 95% of the 2m players on gamepass would have already had the service.

Creating a game for $100m plus and then having people sub to gamepass for one month won’t pay the bills. Especially considering most of these games will receive money from gamepass dependent on engagement length. So for example doom or shadows has an impressive 2 million players but if they only played for a couple of hours the developers probably receive next to nothing.

People paying £10 a month for gamepass won’t keep developers in business. It’s a stupid metric to judge a games success

Production companies and developers actually want to make games for the whales. Build games with addictive gameplay mechanics and loops to keep certain types of personalities engaged long enough to drain their wallets. Why sell games to 1 million people that pay £60 when you can have a dedicated core community (although a lot smaller) that will fund you for a decade. Gaming is a race to the bottom for parasitic developers.

The quicker the big players go bankrupt and the more studios that close the better. AA gaming is the future for proper gamers.

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@Kienda they don’t want you to know the truth! They want to paint their own narrative. It’s the exact reason they hate steam charts

Player count stats come out every time a game has a rough reception.

At least some people still have sense. I don’t believe we will ever have more than a handful of successful live service games across the whole industry. They take too much time and are too repetitive for a lot of people.

With a few decent devs still making single player experiences and the huge backlog of games I’ve missed during the past 15 years I can ride out the current state of the market.

If James earl Jones’s estate had given permission for the use of his voice likeness being used I see absolutely no legitimacy to the voice actors union’s claim.

People have no divine right to a certain career or job role! Since the Industrial Revolution people have lost jobs to automation and this is an inevitability for most roles in voice acting.

Instead of scrubbing the art from the game they could do the honourable thing and pay the artist for the work provided.

Good luck convincing the general public. Studios closing left and right. These morons are tone deaf.

Gaming is cooked

Words like “best day one revenue” and “highest steam player count” are misleading word salad to disguise poor sales data.

Eg: older Ubisoft games didn’t release day one on steam and revenue has sky rocketed since the price of games has increased over the last 5 years. Lipstick on a pig comes to mind.

Have they released actual sales figures for Shadows yet?

Earnings call was released with big declines but huge success was had.

Look what happens when you make good games. Simple really

The trailer was watched over 500 million times in one day. The hype for this game is insane!! My usual preference for game length is 30-40 hours but I’m hoping this one is 200+

Keep throwing mud at that wall! Some of it might stick