This is from earlier this month. But it didn’t really hit until seeing more Suicide Squad details.
“Our focus,” he continued, “is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC based with three-four year release schedules to include more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform and free-to-play extensions, with the goal to have more players spending more time on more platforms.”
Gotham Knights is a example. Get ready to see Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Batman, and Mortal Kombat all get that “live services” treatment.
There must be more profit than last year.
We’re witnessing gaming devour itself from the inside in pursuit of this impossible goal.
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I see.
After ruining their streaming and movies, they are focusing on their gaming division.
Another publisher to mark as ignored on steam
I didn’t know you could do this to entire publishers. TIL.
They’ll change their tune when Suicide Squad is a colossal flop. These execs don’t understand that it’s really hard to do a good live service game.
Game of Thrones
Wait there are game of thrones games which aren’t shitty mobiles or reskins of unrelated games?
Telltale did a series years ago. Plus there was an RPG on the 360/PS3 gen too.
Yeah, i meant more like the new ones since OP context seems to suggest future ones.
AGoT have really bad luck for games, that old RPG was decent RPG (but bad as specifically AGoT game) and the best AGoT games are mods for Crusader Kings 2/3.
Harry Potter was great as is… No need to change it.
Guess I’ll continue not playing any of their games
What is “always on” in a gaming context? I can’t imagine wanting a game that you can’t close.
Constant connection to servers required to play, even if the entire game is being run locally.
Oh, that’s terrible.
It means you must always be connected to the internet as a form of DRM.
Isn’t MK already pretty live-servicey?
Ok.
Who cares? This shit was tired decades ago.
Committee design is what it’s always known to be. It has a name. Everybody here who has the basics of understanding knows what it is.
