The JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle team is “upset” by the response to the game’s controversial micro-transaction system, and will make adjustments, the game’s developers shared with Siliconera.
Developer CyberConnect2 confirmed the incoming closure of its satellite office in Montreal, Canada. At the end of July, it'll be shutting down its only other office beyond the main one stationed in Fukuoka, Japan.
The Montreal office opened in 2016, 20 years after the developer was originally founded. Its statement noted that the second office "led CyberConnect2 on a creative journey in the development of tools and cutting-edge techniques used in creating games."
No mention was made in the developer's statement about if it will offer any severance or transitional help to those about to be laid off.
CyberConnect2 boss Hiroshi Matsuyama has confirmed that a new .hack game is in development! in its 20th anniversary concert.
Yeeeesss!!!! I hope they vary up the dungeons, but I’m so happy this is a thing
I wouldn't mind some cleaned up remasters of the originals. Those are the ones I have real nostalgia for.
It was always mind boggling they released the .hack g.u. but never the originals. To this day I still never opened them waiting on the originals
I'd like the original games to be released again, I couldn't get into them the first time around.
lol ^^ but 6 people downvoted my comment and didnt get that it was a joke as well since I knew it was a joke ;)
"I find the rise of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in the west both great and fascinating." - JPS
rarely do I hear how Japanese consumers respond to micro transactions.
They shouldn't have done that. If they have offered alternate costumes instead. I'm sure that will be more well received.
Then don't put some BS micro-transaction system in a full retail product! I am glad fans were angry and annoyed!
Wow, that game playtime limit is complete b/s especially for the fact that its not a f2p game. Then they have the nerve to imply that it's part of the gameplay design which benifits the gamer because it makes to the game longer lasting? Paid games should never have a mechanism that forces you to wait before you get to play again. That's just low.
Classic. We are mad at YOU because you got mad at US for doing something you didn't like!
Seriously though companies are starting to realize that you cannot keep pushing the boundaries of decency when it comes to these type of games/transactions. We can only be pushed so far and in this industry there are oft not second chances to get your customers back.