As a little boy, one of my fondest memories of gaming was playing my PS1 in split-screen multiplayer with a friend or family member on the same T.V.
A new report reveals multiplayer gaming dominates the industry, with 64% of developers working on online games.
A lot of those games fail. Companies are forcing it through because they people to continuously buy microtransactions. Also they don't need to focus on any artistic elements — just throw some garbage out there and make money.
No actually a lot of video games fail. For example, there are thousands of games that get released every year, most small and indie games. A significant portion of indie games, estimated to be around 70-96%, are considered financial failures, failing to generate enough revenue to be considered successful. A significant portion of indie games are single-player. I don't see any media outlets writing about these failed games. But let 1 or 2 live service games fail and we will be inundated with articles, post, and videos about failing live service/AAA games.
It's just live service games that the most attention, nothing more. Point is very simple, live service games make more money than single player games and more people play them. Most companies will follow that
You do realise it’s easier to count successful live service/AAA games than failed ?
@MDTunkown
A significant majority of video games, be it live service or single player games fail. It is just easier to talk about failed live service/AAA games than 1000 failed indie games that some people pretend to care about.
I mean, how many asset flip simulators exist, and are going to?
How many Synty, bare bones zombie survival games are getting churned out?
How many farm sims?
it'd be a 24/7 ticker of shit games not making profit or failing, games nobody was gonna buy to begin with.
so yeah the news is on AAA games that cost millions, with 100 person dev teams.
The news is on AAA games, while constantly crying about wanting more indies, but have 0 desire to support the thousands of indies out there. Similar to how people constantly cry about there being too many remakes or sequels and wanting more original movies, but never show up to support those original movies.
Just as there are many assets flipped games, there are also good/unique indie games that people who claim they want more of ignore.
We are just gonna have to reverse course as a community.
Go back to taking a gamble, and word of mouth from friends and not "influencers".
Wander stop looks intriguing, but 100k people watched Dr.disrepect say its looks mid so now they have to think it looks mid, and hype up he next COD or BR, extraction hero, survival game.
@IAMRealHooman
The influencer thing is frustrating. I get that people have limited time and money and can't try everything, so to a certain degree you have to look at other people's opinions on things to decide how to spend your time and money. But there is definitely a line between that and just parroting one or two particular influencers' opinions about everything, and a lot of people have unfortunately crossed that line in recent years.
On certain games you can't even really talk to people about them because they just copy/paste an influencer's bullet point opinions on it, so you aren't even really talking to them about the game, because they haven't played it, they just parrot opinions.
Just give us SOCOM sony! Have skins for sale (weapons) and no cartoon crap. We'll play it!
Shaz from GL: "There was a time where every great multiplayer shooter came with a memorable single-player campaign; such a thing, unfortunately, no longer exists."
Concord's Trailer makes me worried, what were Sony thinking. Single player for all the glory. This screams profit loss.
multiplayer games are the highest grosing ones, I don't think this one will make the list though.
Sony almost exclusively has single player games, nothing wrong to get some mp games in there, although I wished the gameplay looked more appealing
The characters and story look like a Suicide Squad clone, from Haley Quinn to King Shark to Boomerang, all I see is copy and paste stereotypes.
At least its live service Done right: Charge for the game, then provide regular free updates
compared to: Make game free, then gouge micro transactions that are basically a necessity to win because al the best stuff has a small cost, then its basically who ever pays most, wins, at least with this everyones on the same playbook.
The game is story based though, it's going to have free story updates many will probably coincide with new character additions.
While I do love when devs make a complete experience with a sp and mp like Gears, Halo and cod, that wasn't always the case. There were mp only games like quake and unreal. But I do really hate when these devs blueball us with cool characters and lore only to limit them to a 2 minute cutscene every 3 months if we're lucky. Apex and overwatch would make for an interesting campaign.
at least with Quake & Unreal, the games that started those franchises included a campaign (Quake & Unreal + Return to Na Pali). Then some later installments would be multi-player only (and some others would still include campaigns). But with games like Overwatch or Concord where the franchise starts as multi-player only, for those players that think the setting/characters/etc are interesting but don't play multi-player, there is no content available to get them invested in the franchise.
I didn't know that about unreal and quake, thanks for letting me know. But yeah I hope if the devs find that people love these universes that maybe in the next installment that they include a story mode for those not interested in grinding hours a day to "get good"
Only a month after Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty spoke on Halo Infinite’s lackluster live service updates and of restructuring coming to developer 343 Industries, another senior figure has departed the company.
Today, Tom French announced that he would be stepping away as multiplayer creative director on Halo Infinite, pulling the curtains on a career developing Halo titles that spanned more than 11 years.
Lol. 343 needs to shut down and mcsft needs to get a QUALITY new studio to work on halo.
Honestly they’ve kind of tainted Halo too much
I’d rather they start fresh and do a reboot
It would be a good way of bringing people back
I loved the story in these games but Halo 5 onward has screwed thongs up too much, like what they did to Cortana then bringing in “not-Cortana” to replace her to fix their mistake…yeesh
Doesn’t help aswell that their stories were done in a way where they think you’ve read all the novels for the lore. “Oh don’t understand plot point A and B well it was talked about on novel X and Y”.
MS need to quit Halo and move on, they have stagnated for the last 13 years or so. Make some new damn games!!!
They won't. They're too buys buying up devs to continue making their IPs. And they've already made it clear that they will leave everything up to each dev. In other words they won't really have anything to do with the new games from their newly purchased studios. Which is a good thing since they kinda kill studio creativity whenever they get involved.
I don't know if that's a fair assessment.
I have no horse in this race, but it makes me think of my own thoughts about Guerilla. I never cared for Killzone, but I love Horizon.
It's entirely possible that they're just not playing to their strengths (which, as a studio, perhaps they haven't found it yet).
It's not exactly comparable but I do agree that 343 might be better suited to making something else.
Guerilla had not failed as 343 have though. Killzone 2 is deservedly one of the highest rated FPS games of all time and 3 was also very good. They are beloved games. Shadowfall was the only time they messed up a bit and it was rushed for the PS4 launch.
I agree with you. Killzone for me never reached the heights of Halo 2,3 and Reach. But now Halo feels like a poor man’s Halo. Go figure
Real question is if Activision acquisition goes through does Ms care about halo once they have COD and Doom
They've lost an incredibly concerning amount of leads and senior level staff since Infinite launched. The game also isn't performing well. It is the 18th most played game on Xbox and the game peaked at 5000 players on Steam today. At this point, MS should end support for the game at the end of 2023 and just reboot the franchise. Halo seriously needs a GOW 2018 type reboot.
The team was formed specifically to make only Halo games after Bungie left. They failed the ONE task they are made to do. How incompetent can one group of people be?
My point. This kind of failure is shocking. Nepotism and stale reputations were the hiring requirements.
I think a lot of games don't include it when they could benefit from it, all shooters especially.
Sadly, it has. Those were the best times. Hanging out with friends and family having a ball playing, eating, drinking, laughing, competing, cooperating.
Online is okay sometimes. But it's not the same as a real gathering. You don't see the reactions of the exciting wins, the agony of defeat, the self punching of the leg in anger, the high fives, the storming off, the return with "one more match."
Nintendo still kind of gets it. But I don't know how long that will last as they enter the online arena. Sure, having the screen split down to two or four was bad unless you had a big TV. Those were the times though.
No way there’s plenty of modern games with local multiplayer
More like phased out, no longer considered, because online multiplayer.
And this was noticed YEARS ago...
Well it's coming back pretty great right now. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Gears 5, Borderlands 3, Darksiders Genisis, Trine 4, Streets of Rage 4, Blazing Chrome, Battletoads, Astral Chains, Cuphead DLC. Halo Infinite is also confirmed for split screen as well.