Cerebralbore101 said:
A lot of those developers don't really make anything all that good anymore though. Blizzard just has Overwatch. Valve doesn't make new games anymore. Andromeda, and Destiny were mediocre games. Microsoft took that route with the XB1, and look where it got them. I think that will eventually be the future of games, but it isn't here yet. Instead of having an always online connection they will likely sell games as a service. You must pay $15.00 a month in order to play our game, and it's all on the servers, etc. That's when I'll cut my ties to modern games though. If a game doesn't let you outright own it, then it isn't worth playing IMO. The only exception to that are indies because they are so cheap it doesn't matter. Most of the PS4 games I own would run 95% the same without patches. Eventually that will change though. I expect once PS5 rolls around 50% of games will be the likes of Destiny, Shadow of War, etc. |
If you've noticed, subscription models are popping up literally everywhere. Dropbox, Photoshop, Sling TV, Windows, Microsoft Office, MMORPGs, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, CBS All Access, Spotify, countless delivery services, etc.
I agree; subscriptions where data is streamed from the cloud is inevitably the future because of the convenience fallacy. "I just have to pay $30 a month and I can play all the PlayStation games I want! That's much better than paying $60 for one game!" Sooner or later, when the tech is fully there, they're going to propose that model and people are going to take it because they think they're saving money. And, they already do it with everything else, so why not video games as well?
Microsoft is orienting Xbox to follow that model in the future. Sony continues to become increasingly dependent on PSN Plus revenues.
The future is here, and it's a scary one for us old-timers.
April 30th, 2011 - July 12th, 2018