I should totally put release date on there too. Just a sec, will add on a column with that.
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Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 day agoNearly every every on that list is also a live service game that has been released for years. It’s almost like supporting your product post-launch builds a dedicated userbase or something.
(And yeah, I know it’s actually because of the profitability of addictive design patterns combined with microtransactions. Let me dream, please.)
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wow z most of them were even older than I’d thought. And even some of the new ones like Tarkov were in Early Access for years before their official release date.
(You flipped the date and country for 16 and 17, btw)
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Yeah, but thanks for the heads-up!
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
One minor correction, I believe The Sims 4 went F2P at some point. They’re funded entirely by expansion packs now.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is also survivorship bias. Plenty of companies would love to support their game post launch and make this much money, but they go under trying to follow the same playbook; even the ones that were successful doing so before.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 day ago
True. I know Dean Hall (DayZ, Stationeers, Kitten Space Agency) destroyed any hope of his survival game Icarus becoming a major success by releasing hundreds of dollars of expensive DLC during Early Access, then later revealed it was because the money from his previous projects had slowed to a trickle and splitting his current project into a bunch of paid packs was the only way he could stay solvent. Even the megahits of the past all die out at some point.
SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Doesn’t help that Icarus is such a technical mess. Certainly limits the player base when you shoot for a graphically demanding game and then don’t bother with working on performance.
Maybe I’m just grumpy that I can’t play it anymore since switching to Linux despite upgrading my gpu.