As if zombies hadn’t caused us enough trouble by now, our undead brethren are set to invade yet again in H1Z1, an upcoming MMO project courtesy of Sony Online Entertainment. It’s fairly early days, but we’d be forgiven for thinking that this title is just jumping on the zombie bandwagon, considering the industry’s output over the last few years. Perhaps this is just an unmistakeable example of market- savvy game development, falling into an oversaturated subgenre. Adam Clegg, game designer on H1Z1, feels differently.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
Players will start in this ‘middle America,’ but someday we hope to have a world that resembles something as large as the United States.
Very cool stuff, really like the look of this game.
Just release the beta already. I thought they said a public release was 3 weeks away, that was like almost 2 months ago!
Can you go back to working on The Agency instead of this generic zombie crap, Sony?
I refuse to touch this game after what Sony did to Star Wars Galaxies.