Games are set to change more in the next five years than they have in the last 45, he says.
The Hogwarts Legacy video game is on sale for the lowest price yet. You can get the Standard Edition on Steam for $29.99 down from $59.99 (that's $30 off). And, the Digital Deluxe Edition can be picked up for just $59.99, which is $59.99 off its usual price of $119.98.
50% is about as far as I made it through the game too. It started so strong in and around the castle... $30 feels about right though
Saad from eXputer: "Despite the success of Hogwarts Legacy, WB's decided to focus on live service and I've lost all hope for a potential sequel."
Let's just chalk this game up as a fantastic one-off, and WB can go f******* rot in hell.
I have no idea how eceutive teams can look at both Hogwarts and suicide squad next to each other and go hey our critical and commercial darling was a fluke suicide squad was the real success they just didn't know it.
Seemingly there's some weird ego involved someone wants to be proven right
I bought thought it was okay first 10 hrs then boy did the repeative gameplay kick in
They will realize that live service games die pretty much as soon as they begin and then they’ll stop and we may still get a sequel.
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It doesn't blow my mind, so much as make me weary for his proposed future.
* "The future is moving towards digital. The future is moving towards the fact that the gamer is in control" - I don't know how one can say that with a straight face, unless digital rights change & DRM is removed, we've already accepted that the convenience of digital outweighs true ownership. They own the game, we rent a license they can revoke whenever and can't resell.
* "We see a world where the amount that you run as a kid impacts how much energy your players in FIFA have. We see a world where the things you have in the fridge govern whether the Sims are fed. You start to blend the discrete and indiscreet" - Oh lawwwdy, nooo! You can have some cool ideas, but those are the best you can come up with for pie-in-the-sky, sci-fi-super-cool interconnectedness? Those sound awful lol. I foresee a future more like: we scan your fridge to see if you own any food by our partner brands, enabling a boost to stamina if you've got Gatorade in there. Or it simply enables them to collect more data from us that they can sell to other companies.
* "But we'll also make this other stuff. Like Spotify delivering music to me based on what I'm doing, we'll start to build games that way, too. Games will blend between your real life and your virtual life – and that's what we think is the future of gaming" - the best example they have is FIFA incorporating real life data...I think his vision and the reality of that vision coming to fruition are entirely different. I also don't see how Spotify is a useful analog past a very superficial veneer. I'm sure it sounds good to investors, but music distribution and discovery doesn't seem to have any parallel to what he is talking about.
* He talks about how neural networks and machine learning can be fed, for example, all Emily Dickenson poetry and it could write a poem in her "voice" that would be indistinguishable from her original works (as a regular Joe). Given this is what we get right now trying the same things with movies: https://www.youtube.com/wat... and the 2017 version is just as poor, 5 years seems way too optimistic for it to be ready and implemented into a form that can create game content.
I don't have as rosy an outlook on the future of gaming from EA after this, but at least some of their ideas are ambitious I guess.
Agreed with Andrew Wilson.
Proof that lizard people walk among us, just look at that stare