EA Sports and THQ may not be the only ones thinking about charging for access to their games' online components should you pick up a second hand copy. Now, SEGA West President Mike Hayes has revealed that his company is also "taking a look at" the system.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.
It was that garbage coh 3 that did them in only a special team can make a sequel worse in every way even though it was a 10 year gap and the same era.
Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol
Sega had such a turbulent existence from the mid-90s to when they dropped out of console manufacturing entirely in 2001, it’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the Genesis Nomad.
What in the hell games to Sega have that are actually good anymore?
I'm trying to think of any good SEGA online games made in past years but I'm having trouble, they've mostly been singleplayer experiences for consoles. I guess Virtua Fighter 5? I just hope this doesn't mean they tack on crappy multiplayer solely to charge if they go this route.
Seriously though, I don't care if the code is included with the game, I don't want enter a book full of codes to access features that were already unlocked in previous years! The companies are banking on two things,
1. Someone would accidentally buy a subscription not realizing they got a code in the box.
2. Someone buys a subscription to a dead or crappy online game
hahaha that's rich. good luck with that sega considering you're possibly the worst publisher this gen. do they even have an games with an online presence?
This plague will kill a lot of good publishers, but SEGA isn't one of them.
If this becomes the standard, I'm just gonna start stealing games.