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- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 13 minutes ago:
A statement from one of the Paradox PR reps:
"I actually played Bloodlines 1 quite recently, and it is a good game, but it is also an old game, and there are many things that would not fly today," Lilja said. "But I understand why people were super psyched by it in 2004, because it had a lot of cool [elements], and the feeling of being a vampire is really strong, regardless of other features. But I think people, they remember their feelings about it. And if they replayed it, I think they would see that it's a competently good game by 2004 standards, now that it's patched.
Seems like their approach to Bloodlines 2 isn't much of "high flyer" in the year 2025.
In defence of the PR rep, they were open about Bloodlines 2 not having much to do with the original and that it was more of vampire themed linear action game.
But in that case, why would you have internal targets of 2M+ initial sales if your plan is to have a radical departure from a well known cult classic RPG known for its roleplaying and strong writing?
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 31 minutes ago:
Chinese Room is clearly a bad fit for Bloodlines. They have zero experience with RPG games.
They make good walking-sim style gaming experiences with strong atmosphere and world-building, but they've never made any RPGs.
Their gameplay also tends to a bit subpar. The original Bloodlines had some flaws with gameplay (combat), but you still had a lot of different gameplay options and approaches.
And why shouldn't people have expectations for a strong roleplaying experience and player freedom for a Bloodlines game?
- Comment on Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon 2 hours ago:
That's so true. Murray's publicity game become so much more cautious and focused after the initial disasterous release of NMS.
Respect to them for supporting the game for so long for free while having a simple and fair monetisation approach.
- Comment on A chill gaming community for the 30+ crowd 2 hours ago:
Cheers!
- Comment on A chill gaming community for the 30+ crowd 3 hours ago:
What's the Euro population like? With the timezone and all.
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- Comment on 3 hours ago:
Honestly, that's very surprising.
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- Comment on Saudi Arabia's investment fund reported to be limiting new investments as cash runs low 23 hours ago:
They are not running out of oil money.
They have the best cost per barrel economics out of all countries (at scale) and they still hold a stupid high % of the market (10%+).
Their game investment strategy is of course a massive failure. They will exist in 24-36 months. You don't need to be a financial analyst to understand this.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I work in market research. Data at this level of granularity (price band view) is extremely expensive.
Around 300K per year and that would also likely only include a few retailers GameStop, BestBuy, Walmart. I don't remember off the top of my head, but I believe Steam data wouldn't be included.
It's very likely Valve doesn't share the full dataset with anyone. Maybe partial data with some of their biggest partners.
- Saudi Arabia's investment fund reported to be limiting new investments as cash runs lowwww.gamesindustry.biz ↗Submitted 2 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Not to mention that not all gaming hours are equally fungible.
There can be shorter narrative games where a given hour is worth more (to me), so the higher per hour cost is justified.
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- Join our little all time adventure game character discussion (good vs. horrible, fan sentiment) if you like adventure games (classic point and click, modern narrative, hybrid adventure games),.piefed.world ↗Submitted 5 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
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- Erosion is a voxel open world shooter in which deaths cost decades, and you can win the Wild West with armies of catswww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 1 week ago:
Huge played of Cities in Motion 1/2.
Cities in Motion 2's city building elements were basically a prototype for Cities Skylines. The look and feel very similar (of course CiM2 didn't really have city-building management layer, just public transit).
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 1 week ago:
I am so glad I gave up on Paradox.
Hopefully, CO can make some cool economic strategy games without Paradox's involvement.
- Comment on An Update on Cities: Skylines II - Development moved to Iceflake Studios 1 week ago:
Maybe this means we'll see a Cities in Motion 3 or does Paradox still retain the Cities in Motion brand.
I was really excited for the original Cities in Motion back in 2011, crazy to think almost 15 years have passed.
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 117 comments
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 2 weeks ago:
They are lying. A work account that's not labelled as such is a fake account.
- Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the postwww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 88 comments
- Comment on The end of merch culture is upon us with an official Death Stranding exoskeleton 2 weeks ago:
Hahaha!
That would be quite the development!
- The end of merch culture is upon us with an official Death Stranding exoskeletonwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hubwww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 109 comments
- Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million saleswww.gamesradar.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 50 comments
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, lots of American media has rebellious motifs, but its mostly merely product packaging and doesn't really reflect American society.
I lived in the US at one point and while repetition of various freedom themed polemics was extremely common (it initially got annoying, until I learned to simply filter it out), I didn't really find the whole thing convincing. It felt more like posturing.
That being said, there is a lot of American literature, cinema and art more generally that is truly non-comfortmist.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 2 weeks ago:
You should post this separately!
- A weaseetlduclob fights a salamander gang and grows ever more horrifying in abomination evolver Strange Seedwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Protests erupt at Rockstar Games offices accusing GTA 6 developers of “Union Busting” 2 weeks ago:
Those are high level examples.
Last Firaxis game I bought was Civ6 and while I played it for 50 hours or so, I mostly play Civ5 and Civ4 (and a whole variety of mods/conversations).