Poll of the Day > Games as a service

(+) Yeah! (+)

Those games can service deez nutz

The shitty part is they all close down. They're designed for maximum profit and then boom. They don't even offer an exit build to let you play offline. Then they run the same schedule in another country later. Lots of Japanese games as a service come here 2 years after and run the same staggered patch releases just hoping to get more more money.

One of my favorite ps4 games Qurare did this. Made by a South Korean developer named Smilegate.

https://youtu.be/CK8qWZL36GU

A fine concept ruined by corporations doing their thing. If they were all comparable value propositions to games like Dota 2 or Path of Exile the whole ecosystem would be pretty awesome. As is, any game using the term is almost certainly one to skip.

I actively avoid all games-as-service experiences. Doesn't matter how great the concept seems or how cool the IP is. Once the intent is clear, my interest dies for good.

When the publishers get their way and every game is a service, I won't be a gamer anymore.

Or I'll just be playing 20-30+ year old games on old consoles for as long as I can keep them working.



funkyfritter posted...

A fine concept ruined by corporations doing their thing.

People always say shit like this (especially younger people). But realistically, without the corporations doing their thing, the concept wouldn't exist in the first place. Most game dev over the last 50 years or so has been driven by the idea that the better the game is, the more people will pay for it, and thus, the more money the company will make. Without the desire for profit, there's rarely a desire or a motivation to push the edge of tech development. Why make something better when what you have now works perfectly well?

Yes, capitalism bad. Capitalism is also responsible for almost everything you hold dear.

The problem is that there needs to be a middle ground between ""all-evil, all-the-time" and "let's burn everything the fuck down". The modern system - and the buying habits of the consumer public - just make it too easy to exploit things to make a profit at the expense of others (see also, most aspects of cryptocurrency at the moment). We've drifted too far to one extreme - but the solution isn't to assume the other extreme is automatically the answer (no matter how much human thinking tends to fall into a pendulum trap that way).

It's not impossible for a corporation to exist and create products that are both profitable for the company and enjoyable experiences for the consumer. They just have very little motivation to do so when both the system and the consumers (and investors, and shareholders) encourage exploitation.

Well I dont like capitalism