by Dave Thier:
"Last week, Sony put its foot in it and has, after some apparent consideration, decided to leave it there. Epic Games released Fortnite: Battle Royale on Switch to expected fanfare, giving people who want to play the game on the go a much more accurate option than the excellent if lacking mobile port. The dream was clear: I could play Fortnite on PS4 at home, and then use my Switch when I was on the road or just out of the house. But that's not how Sony saw its dream, and it's locked my account out of ever playing on Switch."
Samus Aran from the Metroid series almost made an appearance in Fortnite, but Nintendo and Epic couldn’t agree on how she’d be implemented.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Warner Bros. gaming boss J.B Perrette recently described traditional AAA games as “volatile”, but while that development approach has its issues as well, in reality it’s the GaaS format that best fits this description, as each title is quite literally as likely to explode in popularity as it is to implode."
Live services aren't the way forward, they're an expensive dead end that appeal to execs far more than the gaming community.
For every game that gets it right, at least five fail miserably and make no money at all. What WB and other companies consider to be easy money is actually a much worse bet than a SP title or traditional MP game could ever be.
So says the company responsible for one of the biggest flops of the year. This is a pathetic attempt to push an agenda to justify GAAS and mobile monetisation in triple A games. Do you think we're stupid? No one asked you to balloon your development costs by over hiring and expanding and over estimating sales and budgets, failing to meet targets, developing trash games like Suicide Squad that have to be delayed and take 6 years to release because of poor reception, creating mediocrity like Gotham Knights, or over extending on advertising
As the article points out, Gaas is equally likely to be a monkey sink especially post release if it fails like Redfall.
Baldur's Gate 3 and God of War Ragnarok shamed you all. The former for delivering a top quality product without the vices of triple A games, and the latter for releasing an entire game mode and story DLC for free because their product was quality enough to sell beyond expectations.
It’s already working. I’ve made comments about this and people are happy with Hell Divers 2 and even defending the micros and Battle Passes. We’ve opened the door and traditional games are going to be less and less the norm. Hope you’re happy with the bright future of gaming.
Epic Games scored a win against Apple as the iPhone's manufacturer is being forced by the European Commission to reinstate Epic's iOS developer account, paving the way for the return of Fortnite to the platform.
Beh. Tim Sweeney is such a pain. He's always trying to force Apple to play by his rules. He should make his own phone, and launch his own app store there and see if he can make it viable. Options are nice, unless they're parasitic, i.e. Epic Games / CCP.
Good for you want a cookie?
I just wish the whole Fortnite thing was made clear from the start. People say that this was an agreement that Epic made with Sony regarding the Epic account and PSN. Fine, but they should have told us all that up front, warning us that if we linked our PSN to our Epic account that we would be unable to use that account with any other console version. The fact is they didn't and now some people are screwed out of using that account on their Switch or Xbox. I don't care about the crossplay as a whole (even though it's dumb), but I do care about being able to use my account, that doesn't belong to Sony, on the hardware of my choosing.
Ahehe good luck transferring all your stuff among consoles. Very few games let you do this and certainly not the mainstream games. You could say that Fortnite may change that, but I don’t think so.
Me and many cried to Blizzard to let us have our purchases and skins transferred on the forums and all fell on deaf ears. If Overwatch didn’t give an F and we all gave up on that, fortnite won’t change a thing
Fortnite, PUBG and other Battle Royale would probably fade away in a couple of years. It's just another fad imo.