In the gaming world, with sequels and rehashes very popular, it's quite easy for a series to become stale and repetitive. Here the author presents his opinion of five video game franchises that could benefit from taking a break from regular release cycles and why.
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Players are using hacks to gain an advantage in the game, such as aimbots and wall hacks. The first gives a player superhuman aiming abilities, while a wall hack lets you see through walls to gauge where other players are.
“These hacks are typically used by PC players, but those playing on PC via Xbox Game Pass are identified as Xbox players in multiplayer lobbies.”
This is pretty dumb to say the least.
That's a WTF, they suppose to be labeled as pc users even if its on PC game pass. They mess that up big time.
If AI keeps getting better (and it will) it's just a matter of time before there's more sophisticated cheats even for consoles, and they wouldn't even need to be running on it, I have little doubt about that.
Don't Gamepass online games have anti-cheat systems?
If not, that's pretty dumb. Microsoft need to fix that asap.
They won't ever fix this problem, unless they (developers, publishers, Sony and MS) go after the cheat providers directly. You no longer need to hack consoles to use hacks. During the ps360 days, they were going after cheat devices, but it was a cat and mouse game. These cheating methods were around during those days, it's nothing new, but they kept it under control. Since the PS4/Xbox one generation, they stopped going after these cheating devices and it became widespread. Which I find odd, since they started charging for online play (PS4).
Possibly, this is because the companies were going after cheats because the same cheats were being used to pirate the games, whereas today, the companies use online verification to prevent piracy, thus eliminating the need to go after people who cheat only to gain an advantage in the game. As long as the cheater remains below the radar, and does not completely break the game, the companies look the other way as their wallets are not threatened by it. (that is my completely Uneducated opinion on the matter)
I mean, COD games was always filled with hackers, nothing new. I can’t blame MS on this. Activision had years to try and fix this. Might take MS some time to make some change.
It all depends…
Microsoft’s guidance on how to handle gamepass on pc and their love to force crossplay with pc seems like a them issue.
And they own activision, so it is still a them issue.
At the very least, FF should not come in yearly iterations. Periods of 3-4 years would be fine, while the 6+ year limbo vsXIII is in is something else.
these type of articles are dumb whether you like the games or not. The goals of games is to make money. When they quit making money. Then they go on hiatus, see what Activision did with Guitar Hero.
It would be absolutely idiotic for them to put AC, FF, or CoD on hiatus.Those games are the highest selling game for their respective company's. That’s bad business. If you don’t like the games don’t play them.
You could much more reasonably argue that some of those titles shouldn't release yearly, and they should increase the quality of each release, but that isn't called a hiatus.
Extremely stupid article. Why would Call of Duty go on hiatus? Millions of new players are enjoying MW3 and millions of new players will enjoy the next one. There's no reason for it to go on hiatus. Review are good, sales are good, community is big.
Final Fantasy. No reason for it to go on hiatus either. Don't believe everything your read on the internet Half of the internet is just trolls.
Assassins Creed? Disagree. There's a lot of people who enjoy these games and they aren't even hardcore gamers. No reason to go on hiatus either.
Madden 2012. No chance.
Need For Speed. I agree.
Final Fantasy is a yes in a way (it was better when they didn't milk the franchise and brand everything FF for a cheap sale) but the main series should be a craft that takes years...maybe not 6 years - looking at you Versus -
COD is a must, I liked COD 4 but seriously every year is a bit much, i don't really bother picking up the game now, i just go to a friends if i want a quick shot of playing 13 year olds online.
NFS - yes in a way but they try and stay fresh and change up the forumla so i think they are okay.
As for madden i don't play it but like tiger woods/fifa (sports are a yearly thing in the gaming world)
Assassins Creed: not so much of a fan of the game i liked 1 and two but they kept churning games out so i just gave up tbh (feel the assassin creed fan hate for not playing the other games) plus I wasn't to invested in the characters. So i don't know about that one.