MercurySteam: “Going free-to-play has been a nightmare”

The Spanish studio on its failed business model for Raiders of the Broken Planet, and its rebirth as Spacelords.

[Spurg]

Castlevania lords of Shadow was amazing. Mercury steam are at the same level as ninja theory, I think MS should think of acquire them and get them working on a hack and slash game.

[MWH]

indeed LoS was a great game, one of the best i played actually. LoS2 was a mess on the other hand, despite maintaining the solid action gameplay mechanics.

[Heavenly King]

That is because Kojima was not involved with the sequel. Mercury Steam is a very talented studio BUT they require good leadership.

[DarkKaine]

The last time I remember Microsoft acquiring a studio they started making mediocre games and a pathetic excuse of a game that was focused on cars rather than the 3D platforming the originals were all about. And sea of thieves.
I dont want Microsoft near any of the studios that make games I enjoy.

[chris235]

why not come up with something genuine, something fresh. something that is going to convince people to buy your product at full retail price instead of having to resort to shady f2p-trickery?
oh, i know, that is difficult and involves some real effort. well, life is hard. *shrugs*

[Razmiran]

Not all f2p models involve trickery

[King_Noctis]

But almost all of them involve some kind of monetisation or push to get you to spend money on the game. Its how they make money after all. Only a genuinely select fews that are real gems and real “free” to play games.

[Razmiran]

So what you are saying is... I just spoke the truth?

[AK91]

Good they learned their lesson the hard way hopefully now we’ll get quality titles from them.