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Re: EA Cuts Roughly 700 Jobs in Another Round of Industry Layoffs

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Man I think making AAA games are starting to not worth it for western country because the cost is too high. It's like gamble everytime developers making AAA games, it's either success and making a lot of money, or fail and losing a lot of money too.

Or maybe western gaming company is just too bloated filled with unnecessary spending and staff.

Re: Reaction: The Problem with PlayStation Right Now

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In the end I think nintendo is the one in good position right now, they successfully cultivated fan base that not only want 1st party AAA games like zelda botw/totk and mario odyssey, but the smaller games as well, like 2D metroid & mario, mario paper games, 2D kirby, etc.

Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Devs Call Out State of the Industry from DICE Awards Stage

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The AAA industry is just too bloated, there's just too many people in it, its too focused on story and graphics now rather than gameplay and innovation. That's why some games company like nintendo keep having multi millions evergreen sellers despite having worse graphics and less story than other 3rd party developers, they "gameplay first" concept is the right way to develop games.

Oh and stop making (catering) games for "everyone". Elden ring, game that clearly not for everyone, sells more than ff16, game that have "easy (equipment) mode", that theoretically make it available for "everyone".

Re: Sony May Have Made the Right Call Not Copying Xbox Game Pass with PS Plus

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@dark_knightmare2 I subbed to gamepass when I have xbox series console back then because it's cheap and discounted everywhere, it's really good but in the end, I have more games than I have time, I prefer buying and playing that bought game rather than paying monthly for renting games.

I hope sony make $20 psplus basic version only for cloud saves and ps store discount.

Re: Sony May Have Made the Right Call Not Copying Xbox Game Pass with PS Plus

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You can't have full AAA single player games with subscription service like gamepass, the games will always have to have additional incomes (mtx) so people can't just subbed for 1 month to play that games and unsubbed after that, basically renting it online. The cost of single player AAA games are too high for that.

And yeah, psplus essential is suck now too at $80 yearly, a couple of years ago when it's $60 I usually can find a good deal for the yearly subs (usually at $40). The only thing I need is save backup so I guess I'll save it to usb every couple of months 😕

Re: Interview: Shift Up on PS5's Highly Promising Stellar Blade

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Can't wait for this game, I really hope the game is good, and make squareenix make nier automata sequel 😃

Gameplay time about 25 - 30 hours is perfect I think, like nier automata normal ending. Nier automata gameplay time is crazy though, after getting the normal ending its like we got the sequel already with the additional story and endings. When I finished it and got platinum for the game, my gameplay time is at 123 hours.

Re: Shuhei Yoshida Eyes 'Pokemon with Guns' Phenomena Palworld for PS5

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I prefer playing survival games (like valheim) in the pc since playing the building part is easier with a mouse. I do hope the game come out for ps5 😃

@greengecko007 Nintendo isn't the first company to make monster collection games, and if the "pal" in the game too similar to pokemon design, Pocketpair can change the monster design in the 1.0 release of the game.

In the end, the market just want an innovative pokemon games, and if Game Freak can't make it, somebody will.

Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Director Says Travel Isn't Boring, Your Game Is

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I agree with him. I rarely travel in elder scroll oblivion or skyrim since it's really fun to just walk from place to place finding new content, either new cave, dungeon, bandit encounter, or another side quest 😃

Of course the option to fast travel should be there in the game since sometimes you just want to clear that one quest without getting distracted by other quest/cave/dungeon etc.

Re: Publishing Exec Claims 'There Are Too Many Games'

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That's why I rarely played new games anymore, beside nintendo titles, nearly all games will be discounted a couple of month before release. Only a couple of special games that get day one buy for me, I think the last day one buy for me is final fantasy 16 on ps5.

Re: Square Enix Resolves to Implement 'Aggressive' AI Strategy in 2024

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I think AI will be here to stay, using AI for say, dynamic npc behaviour & voice in gta series will be cool I think. I also heard japanese manga will use AI as base translation rather than using localizer, if the translation is good I can see that game developers will also using it for their games. Unlike NFT, AI is here to stay.