While gamers can't possibly like every game they come across, have you encountered a studio that seems to make games
A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.
Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
The new Escape from Tarkov Unheard Edition has the community in an outrage after promising exclusive access to the new PvE mode for $250 USD.
$250? Do they not know all the other games that already exist or will be made in the future that can do similar?
This is for the hardcore people that have 2500 h in the game. They basically play that one game the whole year.
Oh and those same people are mad as hell at this... what a way to reward fans of your game and annihilate newcomers.
Read a comment earlier calling it a "special monetization operation." I had to chuckle at that.
1) Rockstar
2) Naughty Dog
3) Sony Santa Monica
Honourable mention - Insomniac Games
Rotten Tomato Award - CDPR (used to be in my top 3... but we all know how that turned out.)
We really need to get away from this kind of thinking and always be cautious regardless of who is behind the game
After so many fall from graces over the years, most recently CD Projekt Red, each game is like a fresh slate, you never know how things will go.
If we get into this mindset of "Oh this developer / person has a great track record" it stops people from being more honest about the game and the flaws, people start to come up with excuses if the game does fall short, that's not saying the game is awful but more it's not as good as their last offering.
For example if Kojima wasn't behind MGSV, I highly doubt it would have been received as well, same goes for Breath of the Wild if it was a multiplatform, brand new IP with no Zelda / Nintendo influence.
FROM Soft (obvs)
Naughty Dog, Guerilla, Sony Santa Monica, FromSoft
1) Naughty Dog
2) Sony Santa Monica
3) Rockstar
4) Guerrilla
5) FromSoft
6) Nintendo (first party, cant live without Nintendo)
7) Insomniac
8) Sega (ima lover of Yakuza and Judgment, etc)
9) Capcom