Need help questing in Northrend? Players who lack cash to buy the Brady guide might be interested to know about this massive Lich King guide.
For most game sites and fansites (besides Bradygames, who professionally do this), the Wrath of the Lich King Beta has been mainly a pastime, and a cool way to be part of a clique of WoW players privy to the luxury of trying out content before launch. Well, some lag was included, and server crashes, and a few bug reports, but mostly a leisure.
WorldofWar.net's Darker has done the opposite. Hundreds of hours have gone in to cataloguing all the quests, and making a comprehensive quest guide for anyone wanting to level up quickly, in preparation for Lich King raiding. It's now formatted and prepared for the general public.
HG writes: "Blizzard is usually pretty bad at keeping secrets, but the company somehow managed to keep this one under wraps until now. Plunderstorm is a special limited-time event that’s basically World of Warcraft’s take on the Battle Royale genre."
Hanzala from eXputer writes "History is witness to their downfall, yet they keep coming."
It's not so much Devs as it is Invested and shareholders, issue is barely anyone has the backbone to stand up to them anymore and say no for the sake of the project.
This is a fairly interesting article that does summarize a bit of the history of this revenue type. But to answer the main question is a much simpler affair: While people will say in the internet that they hate GaaS games. The top revenue generating games are GaaS, so companies will try to have their own. Take Genshin Impact for example, that game alone generated more than 1.5 Billion USD in revenue during 2022. That is almost as much as the 1.9 Billion USD that Ubisoft as a whole generated that year.
It's definitely a risky move because the majority of GaaS games don't reach the level of success Genshin Impact achieved. However, companies can't seem to take their eyes off that tempting prize at the end.
Do you ever think that over the past year or so every studio who makes this shit has started to think
"GaaS is dying out partially because there's so many of them in the market now, I think other developers are moving away from the model now BUT lets stick to our GaaS game and then when it releases we'll be one of the few on the market still which allows us to get more of the market share since every one else has left"
Yet because every developer has that same thought process they've now all got GaaS games on a still over saturated market.
Premiere gaming is dying. With Spider-Man's 300 million dollar budget and Ratchet & Clank's ridiculously low return on investment (8 million Dollar loss) AAA gaming is going to be only filled with even more High profile IPs trying to make the biggest bang for buck. Expect to see more of this stuff.
"AA" level games are now making a big comeback and are usually even more beloved by playerbase now. So hopefully that's the silver lining. Smaller, better games.
Navigate your way through 2024 with the World of Warcraft roadmap with Executive Producer Holly Longdale.
Well, WOW. Massive is the word. I suppose Darker will be done with Icecrown Glacier before I get there myself ^^
Ooooo this will come in extremely handy! :D
awesome. this is actually flippin cool.
That'll be good for people who don't mind cheaa I mean having a hand with their questing!
i want a updated questhelper addon :)