2K Games' unabashed promotion of NBA 2K20's microtransactions recently shows how reliant sports game publishers are on the feature today.
In a bold move to revamp its operations and reputation, Embracer Group has announced plans to divide into three distinct entities.
Splits into 3, so 3 times as many middle managers, never a good thing isn’t that what ruined them in the first place ?
Breaking News: "In a Blockbuster move, Asmodee to buy Coffee Stain & Friends and Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends. After merger, new entity to be called Embracer Group. A 1,000 job cuts to be expected after merger."
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Embracer Group plans to release 70 game projects before March 31, 2025, with three "important unannounced titles" included in the release.
They may not have a plan to exit gaming. But give it time they will eventually sell off everything and fade away into nothing.
By the looks of it, PlayStation 5 exclusivity does not hurt the sales of Stellar Blade in Japan as the game has passed 90,000 sold physical copies.
Stellar Blade really deserves way more praise than it got, devs have been adding more and more content, for free, since release and the game already was great to begin with!
Stellar blade is performing very impressively there, DD2 didn't do well because word of mouth destroyed it's reputation and not about the Microtransactions or performance, bad word of mouth about how the game lacks so many things that were in the first one
Exclusives matter. No matter what bumbling phil and bond try to say, exclusives is why you buy a console.
They dropped the ball with dogma. SB is a solid game, it just had to weather the social storm.
Correction, microtransactions won't ever go away while IDIOTS spend 100's and 100's of millions of dollars on MT's and lootboxes in sports games.
Incorrect. Microtransactions never existed in sports games in early 2000's and before. Only after 2012 did it really start happening. So stop lying and being dumb news article opinion writers.
I was playing NFL 2K5 on my PS2 the other day because it doesn't have MT's and is a fun game ….
sports game never needed MT's … claiming the publishers are reliant on this practice is the same as saying
"even though this practice never existed a few years ago, today we can't live without the excess cash"
so they're as you said "2K Games' unabashed promotion of NBA 2K20's microtransactions recently shows how" GREEDY THEY ARE !!!!!!!!!!
publishers make more now than ever with digital games and no physical products, yet they claim to make no money in this trillion dollar industry, what a joke, maybe they need better CEO's that can mange finance's ??????
AND the Casinos
RIP Sports games