June 2018's Top Grossing Games on PC, consoles and mobiles

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GOWTLOZ said:

Chazore said:
People like playing what they want to play most.

I've decided to jump back into WoW, due to BFA expansion releasing in a few days. I've always loved Warcraft and WoW, and I want to jump back in, not because it's an online based game, but because of it's world, lore and characters.

I play all sorta of games varying from heroes of the Storm (F2P game) to Deus Ex MKD (a AAA SP game), while also playing Minecraft both online and offline.

Single player games aren't dying though, they just happen to make good money, but fall short of what multiplayer games make via MT's and DLC charges. Fornite has passed over 1b in MT fees alone, which puts them above any other SP game's earnings in such a short time.

Single player games aren't dying. Never alluded to it. But its obvious multiplayer is where the money's at so publishers making more multiplayer centric games doesn't warrant the criticism it gets them because that's where consumers spend money, and a lot of these consumers who complain of multiplayer games have confessed that they did sometimes buy MT's in these games, and these people are in no place to criticise companies for having it when they supported it.

Its also consumer's vehement opposition towards MT's in single player games which turns publishers away from them. If single player games weren't demonised for monetisation the same way multiplayer games are there would be a lot more of them.

We've seen plenty single player games bomb last year, which had good reviews. Dishonored 2, which played fine on consoles but not PC, Prey, which played fine on PC but not consoles, The Evil Within 2 and Wolfenstein 2. Doom on Switch. The problem is people don't put money where their mouth is, pretty much the only single player AAA games that sell are open world games, Nintendo and Naughty Dog and RPGs and its becoming homogenised due to this fact.

Don't agree with anything you said.

I'm a proud gamer who spent 0$ on microtransactions and indie games, they are waste of money. Few years ago I was about to buy some microtransactions on SW: the old republic, just a few microtransactions would cost me 50$, that's almost a full game. I didn't buy and since then I haven't spent a cent on MT's (and never have). I just buy full games, some dlc and sometimes subs på world of warcraft.

About your second point about multiplayer in singleplayer games. It's just a very bad idea, look at games like call of duty, battlefield and SW: battlefront, you get subpar single-player experience and simply not worth the money. In some cases mutliplayer might work, like in mass effect 3 it was okey.

About your third point, review scores isn't everything. Those games you listed were just overall bad games except doom. It didn't fail on ps4/pc but maybe switch. Who on earth spend 60$ to play on 6 inch screen? I don't know. Maybe I agree with 1 thing you said and that's open world games, they just sell a lot better. Linear/scripted single-player games can be annoying and probably won't sell as well.