With the news that the new Perfect Dark game is still years away, Tam and Lucy discuss why announcing games early can do more harm than good, even though there are reasons why doing so is to a developer and publisher's benefit.
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
Either way the studio or console maker would get hounded. Show something early just to make gamers happy that they have games and get hounded cause its to long or dont show much cause there not ready or far off and get hounded. It's a lose lose
I’ve been saying this for a long looooong time, that and quit showing “conceptual footage” and then downgrading a game at release.
Xbox currently being criticised for this, Sony being criticised for not showing theirs early enough. Proof you can't win.
Just want to make a correction. Stop announcing games so early if you are Xbox. If you are Sony or Nintendo then it's ok if you do it