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Veknoid_Outcast on 14 August 2014

I can't help but think of this:

If developing big-budget games is so risky, expensive, and, as we've seen over the past two generations, financially ruinous, then why not stop doing it?



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 14 August 2014

How about games that the fans want? Like megaman and a non shitty banjo and a FF thats nothing like XIII.



                  

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Sharpryno on 14 August 2014

Welp, LoL and Dota2 are ridiculously successful. Dota2's f2p with microtransactions only affecting cosmetics is something console games can learn from.
CoD took notice and implemented it and its very popular. But the game is still $60. But it will still sell 20+ million every installment >.>



Burek on 14 August 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
Burek said:

Not a bad idea.

Only I would have Uncharted sponsored by Google Maps.

Tomb Raider by Wilson's Funeral Homes.

Bloodborne by Red Cross.

Sunset Overdrive by Viagra.

I could go on....

o.O

Those ads are always a middle-aged couple shot from the back, holding hands looking at the sunset over the ocean.

Overdrive -- well, you know...



Teeqoz on 14 August 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
MoHasanie said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Product placement! Do it!

Micro transactions are bad, but I would have no problem using Pepsi's or something in games as healing item instead of generic stuff like 'potions'.


That's a great idea! They do it a little now but there is still potential for so much more. Another thing to do is to put adverts instead of loading screens. 

it seems we think alike. I'm quite surprised games don't already do this. Especially games with long loading times, or it could even be done during matchmaking in multiplayer!


Ads on the loading screen for Skyrim on PS3. Would've made Bethesda more money than the game itself.



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Azerth on 14 August 2014

i would only be ok with ads in games if they made sense in the game. like fh2 having billboards along the roads



MoHasanie on 14 August 2014
Azerth said:
i would only be ok with ads in games if they made sense in the game. like fh2 having billboards along the roads


That's always been done. They need to do more! 



    

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vivster on 14 August 2014

Well he is definitely right but that search for new revenue has been going on for quite some time. Now we have a bunch of DLC, microtransactions and subscriptions. If that is still not enough I wonder what will com next.

We wouldn't have this problem if all the self proclaimed gamers would buy more games.



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bubblegamer on 14 August 2014

So more DLC, transactions or closed systems like how they wanted the X1 to be? Or kinda like mobile gaming with the freemium crap? No, Microsoft, Gaming is doing fine. We don't need you or the likes of you to fuck it up further. The whole online subscription model was also something they "invented'' thanks a bunch.



MoHasanie on 14 August 2014
bubblegamer said:
So more DLC, transactions or closed systems like how they wanted the X1 to be? Or kinda like mobile gaming with the freemium crap? No, Microsoft, Gaming is doing fine. We don't need you or the likes of you to fuck it up further. The whole online subscription model was also something they "invented'' thanks a bunch.

No it isn't. Development and marketing costs are very high now. Why do you think more studios are going out of business more than ever before? 



    

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