Readers’ Opinion is a spot to share your ideas within the feedback part under. We’ll characteristic our favourite replies within the subsequent installment.
Sq. Enix has offered Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, and Sq. Enix Montreal to Embracer Group in a shock transfer for $300 million (through GameRevolution), successfully giving the Swedish online game holding firm entry to properties similar to Tomb Raider, Thief, Legacy of Kain, and extra.
The stunning announcement was made within the early hours of this morning, with it having already been introduced {that a} new Deus Ex recreation is on its approach from Eidos Montreal. However are these studios shifting away from Sq. Enix a very good factor or a nasty factor? As common, depart your ideas and opinions within the feedback part under, and we’ll characteristic our favourite responses within the subsequent Readers’ Opinion.
Our opinion
Paul writes… These franchises being prised out of Sq. Enix’s lackadaisical palms is an effective factor for his or her followers, given how little the writer was doing with them. Nonetheless, it does paint a fairly damning portrait of Sq.’s future.
Sq. mentioned that it was promoting the studios to unlock cash that might be invested in “fields together with blockchain, AI, and the cloud.” Yawn. We’re rapidly progressing in the direction of a future the place the issues that corporations imagine will make them probably the most cash, are concurrently probably the most boring issues possible. Is there anybody on the market considering that they’d slightly have extra blockchain rubbish from Sq. Enix than a brand new Tomb Raider? If that individual exists, then I don’t need to meet them.
Hopefully, Embracer Group will reside as much as its identify and embrace the properties which have stagnated with Sq. Enix over time.
You mentioned…
In our final Readers’ Opinion, we requested how you felt about microtransactions in full-priced games. The reply was a powerful “we don’t like them.”
Timewarp replied:
No. They’ll cease with that “growth prices are rising” nonsense, within the UK we’re already paying £70 for next-gen video games with PS4/X1 video games at £60, I’m not paying that a lot for a recreation after which going right into a MTX atmosphere.
By their very nature MTX need to spoil a recreation as a result of they solely work by ensuring the one option to take pleasure in your self is to pay for the MTX. Take Murderer’s Creed Valhalla the place you CAN spend hours amassing assets to improve your armour and weapons or you possibly can pay Ubisoft to only hand you leather-based and iron ore.
and that’s w/o going into the £30 season go most of those video games have. I already paid to your recreation, I shouldn’t need to pay for it once more.
chnrbl808 wrote:
I really feel like microtransactions don’t have any place in a full priced recreation. Particularly if a recreation has a premium version, because the builders have already gotten their cash from the players who clearly love the sport sufficient to spend the additional money to purchase the premium model of their recreation as an alternative of the usual model.
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