From Heretic to True Crime and Prototype to Blur, Activision abandoned multiple fantastic IPs, and now it's time for Xbox to bring them back.
Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected
Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.
Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?
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.
Not going to happen with prototype. Activision had plenty of time to revive these games. They didn't. They didn't see it as guaranteed revenue like Candy Crush or COD annually.
Microsoft purchasing Activision is not going to change much. Because Microsoft also likes guaranteed revenue. Which is why they continued to milk Gears, Halo and Forza. Or purchased Mojang for Minecraft. They as well didn't bring back many of their own games. Because they aren't money makers.
Sure, you'll see them throw a bone here and there to say they are using the purchase. There might be a game or two to test the waters. And they'll bring characters into other games possibly as micro transactions on console and mobile.They'll use those characters like Konami does for casino games. Especially on mobile.
But as soon as they see that no one is engaged in those few attempts because the community that enjoyed and purchased those games more were on a different console, they'll shelve any future attempts and continue on with the same rotation of guaranteed money makers.
If those other franchises were money makers, they would still be around getting releases and not in a back catalog collecting dust. Where gamers wonder why they aren't brought back.
I never liked Prototype. I remember forcing myself to play the first game and just giving up. True Crime would make a lot of sense though. Saints Row and Volition are dead, and GTA now takes more than a decade between releases. There's a huge gap in the market for that style of open world game.
Xbox has a great history of reviving old franchises and managing studios well, crackdown 3, battletoads, nuts and bolts - safe hands!