They’re building a data profile on you to exploit the maximum amount you’re willing to pay. If a game was organically going to go on sale for 70-90% off but they know you’ll be happy with 40%-50% because you’ve shown interest in it one way or another. Just because someone else does it doesn’t mean I’m okay with it at all. Egregious
@get2sammyb You know this is an interesting article because I was thinking about it recently. The sad thing is that Final Fantasy and Square, as mismanaged as it’s been overall is in a good place with content delivery compared to a lot of other publishers. The FF7 Remake/Rebirth/Reunion(?) trilogy being 3-4 years apart is ALOT better than most of the industry. Along with games like FF16 inbetween, FFXIV consistently cranking out content(MMO, but still) and mobile games. All of their remasters and older titles constantly on sale. For newcomers there’s an all you can eat buffet. But of course it’s still struggling.
All the new players are gravitating towards Pokémon, gachas, Fortnite, GTA, CoD, ect. Gamers now have instant access to all these F2P games/ultra popular like the aforementioned GTA online and instantly play with their friends. The single player side of the games industry is vying for an ever shrinking demographic of grandfathered nostalgic people who know the magic of a new $50 PS1/PS2 RPG that your parents bought you being the only thing in the house to play.
Was thinking about this regarding the new Ace Combat for example… It looks great. But the last one came out 7 years ago. I know it sold well but how is this sustainable? Their options are now to make a new game every 5-10 years and hope the marketing team can capture nostalgia on aging gamers and pray they don’t move on? Or cannbalize the hardcore fans they have with some live service hybrid monstrosity until they get sick of it? It seems like all of these franchises/publishers are in some inevitable death spiral.
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They’re building a data profile on you to exploit the maximum amount you’re willing to pay. If a game was organically going to go on sale for 70-90% off but they know you’ll be happy with 40%-50% because you’ve shown interest in it one way or another. Just because someone else does it doesn’t mean I’m okay with it at all. Egregious
Re: If You're Playing Final Fantasy Games on PS5, There's a Good Chance You're Old
@get2sammyb You know this is an interesting article because I was thinking about it recently. The sad thing is that Final Fantasy and Square, as mismanaged as it’s been overall is in a good place with content delivery compared to a lot of other publishers. The FF7 Remake/Rebirth/Reunion(?) trilogy being 3-4 years apart is ALOT better than most of the industry. Along with games like FF16 inbetween, FFXIV consistently cranking out content(MMO, but still) and mobile games. All of their remasters and older titles constantly on sale. For newcomers there’s an all you can eat buffet. But of course it’s still struggling.
All the new players are gravitating towards Pokémon, gachas, Fortnite, GTA, CoD, ect. Gamers now have instant access to all these F2P games/ultra popular like the aforementioned GTA online and instantly play with their friends. The single player side of the games industry is vying for an ever shrinking demographic of grandfathered nostalgic people who know the magic of a new $50 PS1/PS2 RPG that your parents bought you being the only thing in the house to play.
Was thinking about this regarding the new Ace Combat for example… It looks great. But the last one came out 7 years ago. I know it sold well but how is this sustainable? Their options are now to make a new game every 5-10 years and hope the marketing team can capture nostalgia on aging gamers and pray they don’t move on? Or cannbalize the hardcore fans they have with some live service hybrid monstrosity until they get sick of it? It seems like all of these franchises/publishers are in some inevitable death spiral.