Those articles are okay, but no crystal ball.
KInd besides the point - I am quite annoyed by the "free to play" label... Is it really FREE to play? Don't think so. If anything, it's much more expensive to play, provided your want to progress from the very bare-bones basics. That's the big draw for corps like Ubi, the $$$-making in-game transactions that add up quickly, with much less effort and investment than a full AAA title.
I am not part of that targeted market.
Not sure why people are shocked at this 'trend', unless they aren't old enough to have any memory of the past decade.
F2P has been around at least 10 years and for some unfathomable reason the business model can be phenomenally successful. Or a total failure of course.
Developers have seen what Fortnite has delivered - and also impossible to replicate - and want a slice of the pie.
For some unknown reason consumers want to buy a piece of that - atrocious - pie so there is reason to get into it even to get the crumbs.
F2P is vapid, empty and asinine compared to even an indie retail, but it is what The Masses want and where the money is.
Personally I can see the future of gaming as built on this model and I will turn - as I already have - mostly to indie retail.
We are talking about a world where TikTok reigns, there isn't really much hope for mainstream society based on that, so the only option is to bail out and see what are on the fringes.
If anything my question would be - why 4 years after Fortnite launched? That is way late.
It is free to download and probably to play itself as the gameplay is so simple.
Then you have a choice of purchasable aesthetics I guess, unless they go down the 100% inadvisable pay to win route. That kills games as immediately, no one free is going to put up with opponents with a paid advantage.
I would like to be more informed but with f2p slapped on it I have zero interest, I don't have enough time to play retail let alone F2P garbage.
I've seen the leaked footage. I won't post details or anything that could get my post or account nuked.
But suffice to say, I was pretty damn close about what this is going to be, and I am not impressed by what appears to be little more than a minimum viable product, cash grab asset flip.
I'd say it's a disappointment, but that would imply I had expectations of it being anything other than what it is.
The Asset flip side of things is a given, why spend Dev time on new stuff when for the minimum effort you can make a game and make a whack load of cash off of it, via P2W and micro/macro transaction (not saying making money is bad).Originally Posted by Sircowdog1 Go to original post
Ironically it's not aimed at us per-say, it's aimed at the Ytube/twitch market (Ytube is full of vids about what it could be etc etc clickbait) by mostly P v P/DZ players and its also aimed at the Chinese market,
Tencent own 29% of UBI to start with plus that market welcomes micro/macro transactions and P2W, apparently if you don't P2W in china you are nothing in the gaming world, they have a whole different ethos to the west.
Why do you think so many Western Gaming companies are percental owned by Chinese and going into the Chinese mobile market, Bethesda are doing it Activision/Blizzard are doing it/Ubisoft are doing it.
It's the Largest gaming market in the world and worth the most money.
Oh! and if they are going down the Battle-royal/survival or survival route then they are going up against the big hitters, so their game is going to have to be on point from the off.
Fortnite
Apex
Warzone
PUBG
and
Day Z (Been playing this one on and off now for 8 years since 2013) in it's iterations
Depends what the post was and as an extra if you go and insult or start name calling mods/managers.Originally Posted by AU_Nexus691 Go to original post
What do you think will happen?
Come on no need for it. Just ask in a civil manner.
It was a joke , have people forgot how to laugh these days ...
I just posted my "personal opinion" on it and it was monetized because it referenced what was in the footage , for all we know the video could have been from ages ago and by now the game may have changed completely and probably will until release day , still not happy they are taking away people rights to freedom of speech when I'm not under any NDA
You may not be under any NDA but other people are and so is the property itself.Originally Posted by AU_Nexus691 Go to original post
So anything related to said property will be taken down no matter who posted it.
in my opinion the F2P is the best thing that could happen to the division, simply because they finally release content to do this $ because they have no choice if they want to make profits, while paying 1 time $ 69.99 they are already making their $ and can abandon the games, yes there are micro transactions but it is little to pay to FINALLY have content. Many players dont buy a game because who want to pay 70$ for a game who only view in a video, many time a buy a game and after 1 week i leave the game because the game suck, but with F2P you dont loose your money and only pay for a game you like.