Warner Bros. Discusses "Volatile" AAA Console Games, Will Lean Into Free-To-Play And Mobile
Warner Bros. Discusses "Volatile" AAA Console Games, Will Lean Into Free-To-Play And Mobile
The company envisions a future Harry Potter game where you can "live and work and build and play in that world in an ongoing basis."
He states the AAA market is volatile because succes is never guaranteed. Hogwarts did well, but:
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, was a disappointment for the company.
Newsflash: good games people actually want to play do well and bad games no one wants to play do bad.
How are these companies so out of touch?
This is implying HL was a good game, which it wasn't. It was just a good looking game with a popular IP.
Still, your comment is mostly correct, but bad games can do well with luck or the right strategy, and sometimes good games fail because they don't get the support they need.
Don't be overdramatic. It's a good game, certainly above average. Just because it's not the game you expected it to be doesn't make it terrible. This reminds me of the ridiculous hyperbole surrounding Cyberpunk 2077, that it was a terrible game, even "one of the worst games of all times", because it wasn't the second coming of Christ either, just a good RPG with teething issues.
it wasn't even a good looking game tho
I'd say it's remarkably consistent how gamers will pick up on budget reductions and cost cutting in games. This isn't the movies, we aren't going to just spend 2 hours with a piece of media where some editing handwaving can get us to ignore or not even notice something. These are 40-120 hour games here, we're going to notice when business stepped in to tell the creative folks to drop something.
Even Hogwarts, a game that I 100%'d, was obviously affected by that. The fucking Merlin Trials. Revelio? You can't tell me there wasn't some committee decision that was "We have this big open world, just throw those in every 100 feet or so to make it feel active". The more corners are cut, the more gamers will notice. They can bank on that.
Yeah exactly. Also annoying things like "let's change this concept that works by adding stuff that's in fashion but doesn't fit the game at all". Like Battlefield 2042, the concept of Battlefield stayed relatively the same throughout years and releases and it just worked, but they just had to include heroes this time because hero shooters were popular. It doesn't matter that it meant there were only doppelganger heroes running around instead of an actual army of soldiers.
I believe bullshit like this is exactly what made Suicide Squad such a let down.
Greed. It's always pure unfiltered greed.
How are these companies so out of touch?
Skinner's voice: No, it is the customers who are wrong!
"Good" and "bad" games are not something that the business wankers can see on a PowerPoint. They already ordered their devs to make a good game and that didn't work. They know pay-to-win mobile trash makes money, so they're ordering their devs to make that instead.
That's a funny way to spell microtransactions.
You beat me to it. I’m quite certain, we can download it for free but it will have an immense amount of micro transactions.
Volatile
Read: We don't want to put the time and resources into making quality games when we can prey on whales in shitty Skinner box mobile apps.
Translation: making very shit console games gives little returns, whereas making mobile f2p shit is not only cheaper, but with better returns.
Looking forward to them getting smashed by Fortnite and Evony instead of Baldur’s Gate and Zelda.
"live and work and build and pay in that world in an ongoing basis"
There, that's more what they're envisioning.
what the fuck is discovery time warner even doing besides destroying the brand value of warner brothers and hbo?
i didn't think it was possible to be worse than aol time warner
A company focusing on f2p and mobile. Haven't we already been through this like around 10 years ago? I don't recall that working out too well the last time.
I look forward to celebrating the death of "AAA" games and the rise of independent studios.
Nintendo are about the only big publisher I would spend money on nowadays outside of indies. The enshittification is ramping up too much everywhere else.