I (Jack Davis, TGG) got quite surprised when I heard that "Spore" is doing really well on Steam right now (the recent Steam reviews are very positive). In the matter of fact, "Spore" is doing so well at the moment that people have actually started to recommend other gamers to pick up "Spore" instead of "No Man´s Sky". So this is my take on the matter.
2K Games will take the stage at Summer Game Fest, and it is about time we got some good news about the state of Mafia 4's development.
I hope it's Mafia 4. And I really hope it's set during the 70s or 80s, and not a prequel of the first game as was rumoured.
Discover the impact of Microsoft's decision to include Call Of Duty in Game Pass. Explore the pros and cons and speculate about future changes.
Most folks that have a Gamepass subscription will not spend the $70, they will use Gamepass instead to play COD. MS will most likely make their money from some solely PC players & some solely PS5 owners. Even some PC players may opt to use Gamepass instead of spending $70. I would think MS would want to make every dime they could from retail sales. As long as they put new releases of COD day one on Gamepass, MS will lose out on some sales of COD.
Most that don't have Gamepass will just buy the game and he done with it. People that do will just result in a retail sale being lost. Some will buy the subscription for the month then be done. This is lose lose. Casuals aren't going to pay almost 300 dollars a year for COD.
The reality is that Microsoft already knows the answer as stated by them in their documents. PlayStation gamers have built up an ecosystem of games and they aren't migrating over and dropping what they have to buy an Xbox to play one game in a service you have to pay monthly for. Cheaper to just buy the game. And, I'd bet many casual COD players don't know or care about the acquisition.
Which is why Jim Ryan pushed to make sure that that one game continues to be sold as usual on Sony's platform to keep the status quo. Every other IP owned by Activision are worthless. And Activision has shown they don't care about other IP like Tony Hawk by cancelling them.
Sales WILL be lost on Xbox. That's for certain. Microsoft can only hope that Xbox gamers continue to buy up those micro transactions to make up for those lost sales. Only positive for Microsoft is that they get to dip into PlayStation game sales that we all know from history and NPD, that Sony's console sells more games. But increase subs from Sony fans for game pass? Not happening in any way that matters.
Sony, on the other hand, can have their cake and eat it too. They get COD and they can continue dropping more content for their fastest selling GaaS game which is Hell Divers 2. As the game passes 12 million sales and doesn't beat you over the head with micro transactions, Sony has a win win situation and can support the game getting more content to keep players engaged.
As a side note, COD is probably going to turn into some version of Sea of Fortnite Duty. Games as a service sitting in game pass being milked dry with micro transactions and constant updates making you feel you're playing an unfinished game that keeps going and going with no soul.
I'm not sure why everyone is acting like COD is a surprise. That was always the plan. They said in court during the FTC case they were doing this. They have said repeatedly and recently all first party games are going to Gamepass.
gamepass like PS Plus are rental services. Games like COD you buy not rent. So in my case unless I plan on keeping gamepass for 2yrs minimum than the benefit of adding cod is pointless.
On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.
Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.
I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?
I don't know if i would say i found new respect for spore. But i do know thanks to no mans sky. I have went back to playing and trying to finish superman 64. Thanks hello games
I can´t blame them for feeling that way really. I mean, NMS is anything but what the devs promised us that it would be...And they charge us 60 bucks for the game as well.
I always said that NMS looked a lot like the last stage of Spore but always got voted down and blasted about how "revolutionary" NMS was supposed to be. Spore was a pretty solid game when it came out and still plays well today and from what I can tell, has a lot to offer besides just raw exploration. It may lack the first person perspective and more "hands-on" feel of gathering resources, but that also seems to be one of the most common complaints about NMS from what I have seen. At least Spore has the whole creative design thing to give it a bit of variety over the whole evolution/reach the center of the galaxy deal. I'm sure the die hard console players won't understand any of this and will immediately lash out at what they can't comprehend but the fact of the matter is, NMS owes a lot to Spore and from the reviews on Steam, it seems at least some people feel Spore is a better game. I'm not going to weigh in on that topic since it's pretty hard to compare an 8 year old game to anything new but just looking at the gameplay and features, Spore looks like it would have been a much better value at $60 in 2008 than NMS is today.
I do not accept your premise, author.
Spore space stage was decent.