Video games cost over $100 with micro transactions, now they want to increase the price even more? What happened to subscriptions?
Atlus wins over gamers yet again.
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Former Deviation Games developers have formed a new studio at Sony Interactive Entertainment in order to work on a brand new PlayStation IP.
Well that's an awesome and very surprising turnaround. Cheers to the new studio and what they'll build!
It is not about money it is about talent.. get that talent in and they will take care of you and earn you that money
I had picked up on this before the Deviation shutdown was announced. It was pointed out that a senior manager of the team had joined PlayStation prior to the close. It was a little suspicious because from the outside in, it appeared had basically poached Deviation's talent.
Reading some of the other comments it seems this is understood to be the case.
In other news it would be wild if Sony winds up announcing a brand new internal studio.
That's..... confusing, so shut down but just reformed and same employer 🤔 sounds like pretty much what happened to Japan Studio basically just being rebranded as Asobi
It is odd one I don't know how business deals work or the law of that kind of stuff. But is it possible Sony reached out and said hey we want you apart of Sony but don't want to purchase you for what ever reason. How about use disband and we will open a studio and hire you guys type of thing. Is that even possible?
I guess the deviation team fell apart and didn't deliver good progress on what they pitched (they overhyped themselves when the team was announced)so Sony shut them down. They regrouped with a new team and a new pitch so Sony is giving them another shot.
And this time they are keeping it quiet to keep pressure down on the team. So people aren't asking everyday what deviation(or whatever the new team is called) is doing.
Edit: Also Sony never owned them. They just ended their partnership with them. Deviation decided to close on their own.
Good point. You know, i was thinking of Days Gone too. They pitch an idea to Sony for Days Gone 2 but Sony didnt like it do they scrapped the whole thing. Maybe if a good pitch came by...they'd reconsider it.
To be fair, Sony didn't shut them down. Devation was independent. Sony pulled funding on the project they were working on. As a result, they couldn't run so Devation decided to close on their own.
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The management at Deviation was reportedly a problem. Sony cut their funding and when the studio layoffs began they bought the talent back up
It's probably cheaper to grab the talent than to anage a full studio as a second party.
Maybe we see the game at the PS showcase?
Good for them that they were able to work it out. Hopefully they're developing something interesting.
I think Sony is thinking long term as a replacement for Call of Duty M$ edition.
If they can pull off at least 2 more games similar to Helldivers 2 they won't have to worry about that COD deal anymore (my personal opinion, not fact)
The best thing they can do is make something old school based
The issue with COD is that it's so over the top and arcade like now where it feels more like you are relying on gimmicks and what you've unlocked rather than skill.
If they can create an old school like first person shooter where "less is more" and not a game that relies on a drip feed road map then they'll get some attention.
The power of greed and milking the consumer to death, the power of greed and how some people are stupid sheep when it comes to their wallet and buying loot boxes and paying for those microtransactions. Even with the $10 hike up in price the quality control will not improve and that customer will be pissed they wasted that cash on a piece of shit game.
Microtransactions were, supposedly, put in place to stop the price of the base game from rising.
Microtransactions bring in a whole lot of money for many titles, so I can't wait to see the price hike, followed by new and interesting ways to spill out into the now already more expensive games.
More and more broken games. More and more "games as a service", more and more "roadmaps". All asking for retail at launch. You can freaking preorder the season pass of games that haven't even released.
The games industry really has become a greed-fest. I miss being a kid.
agreed
I'd rather spend the 10 bucks on a sub like Gamepass or even PSnow, that gives me access to hundreds of games.
Hell, even EA Access is a better investment to use the 10 extra bucks on than getting the exact same games the devs would have made, but charged you 10 more dollars for.
More and more broken games. More and more "games as a service", more and more "roadmaps". All asking for retail at launch. You can freaking preorder the season pass of games that haven't even released.Microtransactions were, supposedly, put in place to stop the price of the base game from rising.
Microtransactions bring in a whole lot of money for many titles, so I can't wait to see the price hike, followed by new and interesting ways to spill out into the now already more expensive games.
The games industry really has become a greed-fest. I miss being a kid.