Unfortunately there’s a whole slew of people who are going buy it no matter what. See the same shit with sports games. Doesn’t matter how much of a lazy, shitty, watered down mess it is, people are going to buy it.
With licensed sports games – not something I play – my understanding is that the game typically has a player database that tracks the real-world situation. So what you’re paying for is basically the right to play fantasy games with the current year’s teams.
That’s got value to a number of people, I expect.
With multiplayer FPSes – also not something I’ve played much of in quite some years – my guess is that the release does something to create the demand, because a lot of player base will shift to the new release, which yanks them off the old release. So if you stay on the old release, you’re only playing against people who stayed on the old release.
EDIT: Of course, the flip side of the multiplayer thing. is that if the players, as an aggegate, generally don’t move to the new game – as it sounds to me, from the little I read, to be what happened with Payday 3 – then the mechanism works against the publisher.
This is what I’ve been saying lately - there is a massive opening for someone to do for CoD what Battlebit did for Battlefield. There are people who just want the old CoD multiplayer back without all the Warzone garbage and they would gladly pay for it.
I can ignore a lot of things if the game still feels good: microtransactions being jammed down my throat I can ignore as long as they are not pay to win. Game modes that don’t interest me, I can ignore (they even give you the option to uninstall JUST warzone if you don’t play it).
The saga of COD’s super aggressive SBMM and active manipulation of the result of 1v1 encounters over the last 12 months I cannot abide. Dropped frames in the middle of a close quarters battle whilst their algorithm decides which player should come out on top to maintain engagement? Nope! If this is the direction that play is headed they are beyond redemption.
Myself and many others are out here hungering for an arcade shooter that rewards player skill and movement mastery. It’s only a matter of time until someone gets that formula right and takes a huge chunk out of the COD franchise.
Xdefiant, The Finals, Unrecord, Marathon are all possibilities, but you can’t play any of them right now.
It’s a bloody sad year for gaming imo - I prefer to play online multiplayer but since I got bored of BF 2042 and swore off of COD altogether, I am spending my time playing some of the great single player games from the last couple of years instead.
Unfortunately there’s a whole slew of people who are going buy it no matter what. See the same shit with sports games. Doesn’t matter how much of a lazy, shitty, watered down mess it is, people are going to buy it.
With licensed sports games – not something I play – my understanding is that the game typically has a player database that tracks the real-world situation. So what you’re paying for is basically the right to play fantasy games with the current year’s teams.
That’s got value to a number of people, I expect.
With multiplayer FPSes – also not something I’ve played much of in quite some years – my guess is that the release does something to create the demand, because a lot of player base will shift to the new release, which yanks them off the old release. So if you stay on the old release, you’re only playing against people who stayed on the old release.
EDIT: Of course, the flip side of the multiplayer thing. is that if the players, as an aggegate, generally don’t move to the new game – as it sounds to me, from the little I read, to be what happened with Payday 3 – then the mechanism works against the publisher.
It’s a bummer that there’s nothing comparable as competition that actually has a playerbase.
There’s a few on the horizon but as of right now it’s a wasteland.
This is what I’ve been saying lately - there is a massive opening for someone to do for CoD what Battlebit did for Battlefield. There are people who just want the old CoD multiplayer back without all the Warzone garbage and they would gladly pay for it.
I can ignore a lot of things if the game still feels good: microtransactions being jammed down my throat I can ignore as long as they are not pay to win. Game modes that don’t interest me, I can ignore (they even give you the option to uninstall JUST warzone if you don’t play it).
The saga of COD’s super aggressive SBMM and active manipulation of the result of 1v1 encounters over the last 12 months I cannot abide. Dropped frames in the middle of a close quarters battle whilst their algorithm decides which player should come out on top to maintain engagement? Nope! If this is the direction that play is headed they are beyond redemption.
Myself and many others are out here hungering for an arcade shooter that rewards player skill and movement mastery. It’s only a matter of time until someone gets that formula right and takes a huge chunk out of the COD franchise.
Xdefiant, The Finals, Unrecord, Marathon are all possibilities, but you can’t play any of them right now.
It’s a bloody sad year for gaming imo - I prefer to play online multiplayer but since I got bored of BF 2042 and swore off of COD altogether, I am spending my time playing some of the great single player games from the last couple of years instead.
There’s plenty of old games with active player bases, the battlefield games off the top of my head are still plenty active.