This is from earlier this month. But it didn’t really hit until seeing more Suicide Squad details.
“Our focus,” he continued, “is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC based with three-four year release schedules to include more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform and free-to-play extensions, with the goal to have more players spending more time on more platforms.”
Gotham Knights is a example. Get ready to see Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Batman, and Mortal Kombat all get that “live services” treatment.
There must be more profit than last year.
We’re witnessing gaming devour itself from the inside in pursuit of this impossible goal.
Buy indie
Just AAA gaming, which has sucked for decades.
Just capitalism, which has sucked for centuries.
Just greed, which has sucked for millennia.
Archeologists just uncovered a wooden structure that dates back 500,000 years, which could be interpreted to mean that we have had culture and society for much, much longer than we initially thought, which begs the question – how long have we always been selfish assholes? Only lately.
What indie fighters even exist? Party game platform fighters and pony-cruft?