Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors where the executive mentioned the intention to challenge the existing paradigms when it comes to the high fees currently enforced by most platform owners (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft on Xbox, and Valve).
ARK: Survival Ascended has introduced Premium Mods on consoles. Wccftech talked to Studio Wildcard and their partner Overwolf about the rising importance of user-generated content, especially for live service games.
Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.
Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.
Druckmann claims the tech could 'push the boundaries of storytelling in games.'
I’m more interested in what else he said.
“Neil Druckmann says new Naughty Dog title could ‘redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming’
He also said it has "ethical issues we need to address" but of course that doesn't get the clicks.
I’m all for it. Cuts the time to make a game. Look, Hellblade 2 took 5 years to make, if AI can do that in half the time, as a consumer, I support it.
There's always the open PC market. Build your own console PC Store and make games for it. Create your own console platform. 100% profit. To complain that you're not getting a fair deal on someone else's platform just sounds silly to me. And using Microsoft's example is weak as they are only trying to grow their Windows Store against Epic, Steam, etc. Not because they want to help developers.
Funny though reading the article. This company has seen increased profits year over year just like Epic and Fortnite. But want more money. They sound just as greedy but act like it's for development change and for the people.
Good luck selling your game from your own site with your own infrastructure and no built in tools to find your content based on interests and genres. Should we also complain that retail stores take a profit on sales as well here when the players could just ask you to mail them a copy?
There's a gross misunderstanding of how these platforms have allowed games to get into the mainstream and therefore have allowed these people to sell more.
And if the platform is making more than cost, that also means the publisher is making even more than that. So, the complaint is the game is profitable?
Developers are getting pathetic.
Unreal hands you a license for their development tools that you only have to pay for after you meet a profit threshold.
You put your games on Steam because you know it's a popular service, and you want the visibility, and it can offer that to you.
Unity provides new devs with a framework to better help bring their ideas to fruition without costing an arm and a leg.
Every year it only gets easier and easier to try your hand at game development, and bring your product to consumers.
There's a reason most devs don't try to sell their product via their own website. They know there's more sales, thus more money, to be had being hosted on storefronts like Steam; but then they turn around and cry about their take.
Do I find 30% to be a big cut? Yes, I do. Though I also know that cut is an investment, and that being on Steam results in more sales.
I find it funny that devs take advantage of this, agree to that cut knowing it will most likely result in more profit, and then turn around and cry about the deal they knew they were making.
30% for the privilege of being on a platform is way too much imo. I’ve heard all of the arguments for it and I still can’t see it justified. Consoles will be more expensive, consoles sell at a loss etc. it doesn’t matter, 30% is dumb. Excusing the abuse of developers by greedy corporations just because you save 75 dollars on a console. Yeah I’m not for that.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't epic try to do the same thing and PC gamers complain that they liked steam more. This nonsense has to stop if any company out there is trying to put more money into the developers pocket we as gamers should be supporting it. If one company takes 30% and the other takes 12%, how is the one taking 30 better than the one that's taking 12
And don't give me the crap about 10 cent having investing money in epic. They have invested money in every company they're worth close to 1 trillion dollars.