this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2024
55 points (98.2% liked)
Games
16651 readers
915 users here now
Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)
Posts.
- News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
- Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
- No humor/memes etc..
- No affiliate links
- No advertising.
- No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
- No self promotion.
- No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
- No politics.
Comments.
- No personal attacks.
- Obey instance rules.
- No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
- Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.
My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
Other communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It sucks how "free to play" has become synonymous with garbage.
Because it usually means that you lower the quality of the complete experience to extract money from people willing to put money into it.
On my "lotto list" is starting a game studio to make my favorite daydream... a free to play isometric mmorpg with a bunch of unique mechanics that so far havent been seen in online gaming (to my knowledge) including non predatory ways for me to make money.
Id make an awesome rich guy.
Meanwhile I've been constantly thinking "I could probably make some piece of shit in Unity called Give Me Money that is just a big green button that takes $50 from your bank account and deposits it into mine and enough people would still buy the game and press the button that I could probably never have to work again."
Kinda reminds me of gold bar app from the beginning of apple app store
Pride and accomplishment?
Curt Schilling tried that and lost over $100M of his own money, but he's also a massive asshole in all regards. I wish you better luck.
That company was so odd, cause usually companies that mismanage their money into bankruptcy don't also make a great game, and yet Kingdoms of Amalur was amazing.
Oh it would be a massive risk. Id bring some devs in to consult and be like "Just how insane am I" before I dropped serious coin.
I'm the same way, but I'm hoping to start with an isometric MP remake of a SP strategy game I loved as a kid, with a handful of unique mechanics.
If that goes well, I want to bring those mechanics into an MMORPG setting. I really want to make a strategy MMORPG where players initially engage with the game in a traditional MMORPG sense (quests, level up, etc), and later engage with the strategy aspects (raids against other factions, cross faction diplomacy, controlling territory, etc).
But alas, I don't have the time, skills, money, or motivation to make it a thing right now.
its because people are always chasing what's new. its the goldfish brain that people have (play whats new and get bored with it quick and switch games) that is ome of the causes or developers to keep developing new titles.