Imagine seeing multiple studios working on live service games get shuttered and games cancelled because of how oversaturated the Live-Service market is, and still dumping lots of money into more of those games.
That’s what WB seems to be doing, announcing in their latest earnings call that they will be focusing on turning their existing franchises into live service games full of monetisation and player-engagement.
Epic Games is facing a $1.2 million fine by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets over "unfair practices" in the Fortnite shop.
It might be cheaper to simply pay the fine. Fighting said fine could cost millions due to court and lawyer fees. Fortnite generates well over a 100 million in each month, so Epic has plenty of cash.
But if they did pay it, then they are basically admitting that they did something they weren’t supposed to be doing. If they fight it, they may win and continue to have a sense of urgency for their micro transactions thus making more money long term.
The OS works, but it barely crawls along on the Nintendo Switch's older ARM chipset.
Yeaaa... no. It's cool to say that you got it running as a bragging right, but this is completely unusable. I like how he hits the screen while trying to type! X'D
Nexon has released its financial statement for 2024's first quarter, and it looks like FPS The Finals isn't proving the hit the studio was hoping for.
The market for games like this is too over saturated to make a dent in other established games' player counts. Trying to start all over with a whole new multiplayer meta and grinding to get better is not feasible when there's already a ton of similar games that have come out before it.
They go where the market goes. Unfortunately, people buy into this shit and it's not going anywhere anytime soon.
Zaslav is just as bad as Jim Ryan. Both make these awful, clearly corporate scum mentality decisions.