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Nacon exec says industry's problem is "too many games" (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's wrong with live service games? Soulless AAA games tend to be live service, but so are good games. All of MMO's are a live service and many are good games (if MMO's are your thing).

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

what would you day a good live service game is?

I got slowly beaten out of Destiny by their live service model.

I play Hearthstone, but I've had a full collection for 4+ years now and I recognize spending ~$300/year on a single game isn't for everyone, I also recognize in 5 or 6 years they'll close the game down and nothing will remain, and then in 20 or so years even websites and YouTube videos mentioning it will become scarse.

The same is not true for games like Mario 64, Goldeneye, Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, even Tetris.

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Any multiplayer game will die once its community moves on. Whether it's live service or not and one could argue live service helps prolong a game's time in the spotlight.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Elite: Dangerous is all right. Buy once, no subscription or other crap, really cool in VR. Or World of Warcraft (I played it over 10 years ago, so not sure about now), had a really good time, don't remember any bullshit from the devs.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

WoW itself is probably decent but "Blizzard" and "bullshit" are kinda synonymous for many reasons- although the majority are not in-game reasons.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Blizzard today just has nothing to do with Blizzard back in the day

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Somewhat agree but I'd argue "today" is relevant to "live service"

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, my point boils down to "nowadays live service games tend to contain lots of antifeatures and bullshit practices", but the concept of a live service game is not inherently bad.