You listed a few games without listing their costs or development times. Cut the potential profits by ~25% and the chances of seeing either of those changing. 3rd person shooters have not attempted to improve the lack luster shooting mechanics for well over a decade.
The only decent looking vehicle shooter than isn't a copy/paste MMO on the horizon is Ace Combat 7 and that series almost died as an MMO itself just a few years back. New IPs/genres would slow down even further, and we'd see a lot more phone and freemium titles.Īs it is we can't even get decent vehicle shooters, aside from BF, which is MP only and only part vehicle based. If you think the industry looks bad as it is, have the price of games drop and you'll truly see how repetitive it can get. If you like freemium games or other games then great, but for the rest of us it wouldn't be good. Your typical game costs millions to make and it isn't becoming any cheaper. You can't cut the asking price without seeing quality/content decreases and stagnation. Fact is games are more expensive to make. I rather spend it on another Witcher game even if I'll never play it, just because the company behind it is devoted and honest.įree or not you'd have to pay me to play that, and just about half of what you listed. Fuck you Ubisoft, you don't deserve my money. And in return they treat you as criminal by default. What shocks me more is why people still buy their cookie cutter designed stupid games. It's 6 years later now and I don't miss any of their stupid games. I refuse to buy or play any Ubisoft games since 2010 when they introduced their always-on DRM garbage. I only bought their old games and games on GOG without DRM. So much no one would even pirate their crap. They are greedy assholes who deserve to be boycotted. Ubisoft adding more DRM garbage to their games is not really suprising. If they can't make games work well and problem free, then they don't deserve my money.
And some even bought originals and then used crack so that devs were supported and they could play the games fine. What does that create by itself? It shows that pirated copies are actually a better deal. Do you want to know how many pirates had issues back then? None, because pirated copies just worked since they weren't relying on CD being in the drive. During Win9x to WinXP transition most games bitched about missing CD even though you had original game.
Through history I've had nothing but problems because of stupid protections. Remember the dreded problematic StarForce and Tages protected games? I never bought any game with that protection out of principle.