RenCutypoison said:
naruball said:
RenCutypoison said:
Anyone with common sense would know you don't need a male protagonist to sell a game. Or that a MMO that is not like wow can sell, etc
Investors are stupid sometimes, but they still are the ones to decide. And yes that's a great deal for them, and i'm sure some knows.
For example any pc game more than 5 years old (there are exceptions of course) should be given away for free because publishers don't get money from them anymore. They still don't do it.
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That may be true, but if a publisher were to give a game for free, they would have no free promotion from Sony (word of mouth thanks to ps+ surely helps some frachises) and they would have to pay for the servers for the game to be downloaded. There's no point in doing that. Who know what kind of incentives Sony is giving them. Point being, every time an AAA game is free on ps+, I see at least 5 different articles about it on different websites. Even if you don't have any interest in ps+, the headlines alone are free promo to your game. If publishers were to randomly give old pc games for free, they would probably not get similar exposure.
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Given the lack of real news on gaming website, I'm pretty sure people would know when there is a free game.
And if the thousand free DDL website can survive, I think a publisher could do it too.
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I think the reason that ps+ works well is because not that many people have it, so it helps publsihers/developers without hurting sales. If 50m people had ps+, the rest would probably not bother buying that game. Hence MS' very old games offered so far. The idea is that you want a core audience to play the game and promote it somehow (forums, friends etc) and not for everyone to have access to it.
