Hello Games has done what few studios do; they've taken a poorly-received title and morphed it into a great one with much time, effort, and difficulty.
By putting Black Ops 6 on Game Pass, Microsoft plans to gauge its growth, pricing, and monetization changes, at the cost of less game sales.
If they have follow up games that are bangers, then this strategy will work. But if it’s Call of Duty followed another dead period then it won’t last.
When the game does not hit 1 Billion in revenue in under two weeks they will wonder why and the next thing you know; Season Updates will no longer be free.
subscribers go up, execs celebrate win, get bonus, price goes up, subscribers go down,
execs dont care, got their bonus,
If it works CEOs and shareholders get a payday and if it doesn't even more studios get closed by MS so CEOs and shareholders get a payday.
It will sell on PC & PS but as long as COD is for rent on Gamepass it will not sell well on the XB platform. Most folks such as myself that like COD just for the campaign would rather rent it for that month instead of paying $70 plus tax for the game.
Behaviour Interactive is facing redundancies, with almost 100 people affected, mostly affected in Montreal.
Man this studio got hit with another round? it sucks there know for dead by daylight not saying that its a bad game because its not but because its from 2016 and this team has tossed a game out almost every year sense then but each game got worse and worse sales/notice.
meet your maker all done by them has 8 players playing on average via steam
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Stuff like this looks like alot of work was done but so few sales this is what no doubt is causing all the layoffs.
January this year they laid off 45 people
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95 is this week so this news is new
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Just back to back waves of layoffs.
Finally, the Vietnamese government has officially responded to Steam being blocked in the country.
VPN to buy games, fuck that if it's allowed or not, or just use a VPN and torrent what you can.
If the game is crap then yes there will always be negative feedback it comes with the territory. It's called word of mouth or welcome to the internet. Where the truth about a game comes out really fast whether the game is good or crap. If you can't handle the criticism because of a game then why publish the game. Why should people who never criticized or even played the game be punished? Vietnam has some really screwed up laws block Steam because they don't answer us rule. And going on a witch hunt with Steam please. Where's the proof, where's the evidence of this witch hunt. Somebody is butt hurt and has a Vietnamese Karen leading the witch hunt.
Well Driveclub, morphed into an amazing game also but. Alas it was to late for developer. Would have loved to see what they could have done with DC2
Games like this make me wonder if the review system we have will eventually change or we'll simply update the scores?
No it doesn’t. Adding things 2 years after launch that they promised would be there at launch isn’t worth praise.
Yes they do but the end product is still underwhelming and kinda not worth it.
Praise for a dev that falsely advertised a game? Praise a dev that not only released an unfinished but also an extremely broken game at full price no less? If we're praising a developer that does these anti-consumer practices then what shall will do when a dev doesn't? Build them a statue? Throw them a parade?
The absolute lack of standards by the "gamers" that have this kind of mindset are much more to blame than the EAs, Activisions and Hello games of this world for the anti-consumer joke that this industry has become. Not only do they bendover and take it up the ass but they also say "thank you and please help yourself as many times as you can because we will praise you for it" https://media.giphy.com/med...