Michelle of vividgamer.com writes:
"iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch owners with iOS 4 or higher can now receive “Blue Flames” (blue flaming helmet) and an All-Star nameplate for Halo: Reach through the Bungie Mobile application. The flaming blue helmet was previously only available to Halo: Reach game developers; now it’s available for you. The best part is, it’s free."
Despite its flashy trailer, I'm still feeling pretty mixed about Bungie's upcoming extraction shooter, 'Marathon'.
Do you like Non-Free GaaS games that are Extraction Shooters? If the answer is, yes then you’ll probably enjoy this. If it’s no, then stay far faaaaar away from this.
I cannot get into 99% of any GaaS game, not saying that I’ll close myself off from them, but generally their design is akin to the mobile game model. I f*cking detest that.
The other thing is even if I were to get into this by some miracle, after about a week I know I’d be bored.
I’m sorry Sony was banking on GaaS to be the future. Let this be a lesson to them… well, maybe after that Fairgame$ game and wasn’t there another one?
If this fails after Concords massive failure then I'm going to be SUPER curious to see what the hell they are going to do with Fairgame$.
I wonder if they'll delay it or just cancel it to start on a brand new single player IP.
I wish I knew how much they invested in all these. I mean, not only did they acquire Bungie for a huge chunk of change, but then funding the development for this, Concord, Fairgame$, and isn’t there Horizon one in the works with a weird art style? How they thought all these GaaS games would be supported all at once is beyond me.
The other kicker is remember when they announced 12 of these f*cking GaaS games and then knocked it down to 6? Whatever the hell they’re smoking over there, they need to stop.
@crimsonwin69 they announced they had 12 (although that included titles like gt7) but they had so many because they knew they wouldn't all hit the market and some would bomb. The money these games make when successful is such that they only really needed a couple to be successful. We also know what most arr now and sadly the two most promising and most likely to be successful. Spiderverse and the last of us online never released becauae the studios realised it would require too much time commitment and take over their dev time for the next decade or more.
The industry is a contradiction. Its pushed out the idea of F2P so hard that pay to play games eventually switched to that model or have been given out for free for a period. Yet for some reason every now and then these companies wanna shite out a pay to play game then go all *surprised Pikachu face* when it flops. First game since Destiny, some obscure game most don't even know about, you'd think they'd treat it as a smaller budget SP game but nah smh.
I think they have, hence it's to release in wait is effectively early access to limit the money spent on it without it bringing in money and showing it can be successful.
It's called having your cake and eating it. Many games start off F2P simply because it makes more sense to do so and then earn your money through MTs and BPs. Then along comes Bungie who knows they have a strong enough fanbase to get away with charging for copies and if the state of Destiny 2 monetisation is anything to go by, will still be monetised like a F2P game.
The PlayStation-maker's first substantive response to the headline-making claim includes text messages from fired designer Christopher Barrett. His camp calls them misleading.
i mean, gurl. really?
u acted like a fking creep and still think u have any leeway to your case? please
Replies(3)Seeing some of the evidence this guy was a total creep completely indefensible and should never have been allowed to carry on this long if this is just Sony's evidence how long has this been going on.
no way anything he did was justified just a guy with a power trip trying to abuse those under him in some of the creepiest ways possible. And it's legitimately traumatic for those under him coping this abuse i really feel for them no one should have to go to work with their boss abusing their position and trying to fk them day in and day out and they have to just deal with it.
If he had shut his mouth and taken the termination we would never have seen this evidence but now the evidence is out there he will never find work again and to me that's the real justice here.
This Bungie dude is F'd. A wrongful termination lawsuit cannot be won if there is reasonable doubt. Because in a wrongful termination case the plaintiff only needs to show that their claim is more likely true than not. Those SMS messages paint dubious intent that he wanted more than just friendship at least someone could read it that way.
Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian predicts platforms like Fortnite and Discord to become even more prominent for independent game devs.
***Gamers are telling studios that they don’t want to download new launchers or big game demos; they just want to click and enjoy with their friends. So, the smart studios will begin to release their demos in Fortnite, possibly skipping Steam or the Microsoft Store altogether.***
Why do I not see this happening at all? It seems illogical and I'm pretty sure everyone already has Steam installed more than Fortnite. You're going to have to download the game data anyway, why wouldn't you use Steam?
Why does this feel like someone pushing something no one wants?
It literally makes no sense. Players don't want to use Steam to download their games? They want to use Fortnite to download their games? What the hell?
The concept is that it is frictionless, interconnected and a familiar experience. It’s a huge trend already, almost an hyperbole of GASS * UGC, heavily supported by favorable metrics and use cases.
As in: if Uncharted was a 2022 game, many people could be playing creative variations of it, inside of it, and Naughty Dog could be making huge safe buck, instead of spending hundreds of millions looking for the next hit.
It’s something real, strongly explored by market leaders in multiple genres (Fortnite, Brawl Stars, Minecraft, Roblox etc.).
Do ya think they're actually this disconnected from reality or they just say these things so that they can try to get the masses to think about it and force such a change? Cause that quote is by far the stupidest thing I've read, and it's way early into the year. Yea let's just uninstall Steam, where we have our whole PC library, download Epic and play everything thru Fortnite. Don't think I could get into words just how stupid that sounds.
It's definitely trying to pre-load a change. Kind of the same way my wife came to me yesterday and asked why every news channel was talking about AI. People in charge want to force a change.
This all reads like some NFT multiverse investor hype vision of the future. Like sure, people are playing and enjoying mods/custom maps/whatever in games, but demos of one game inside another games engine or replacing steam? C'mon! It's not realistic or practical.
I'll postface this with saying there's obviously a market for economies within these things, like within Skyrim, Minecraft, Fortnite and whatever. It's just these economies will come and go. It's been happening since quake (arguably even since doom with custom WADs and whatever) but these things will never be the "steam of the future", just another place to capitalise on if the audience is there.
That's pretty cool
Hmm i sold my iphone to buy a WP7 but seems that MS is supporting the iphone more than the WP7... and yes i know its bungie but its Microsoft game so they should pull the same deal for WP7 user.
Better go buy me an iPhone...
What about Android??! Bah....