Yeah it makes no sense. "Let's ditch turn-based combat for and even more niche genre, character action! Surely this will make us more money, right?"
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For games I believe American companies cannot directly sell their product in China, they need to go through a Chinese company. Blizzard went through Netease, Valve goes through Perfect World, and Riot is 100% owned by Tencent anyway.
Definitely a backlash against FFXVI https://www.gamesradar.com/final-fantasy-visionary-yoshi-p-really-doesnt-like-the-term-jrpg/
Yoshi P, game directory for FFXIV and FFXVI, famously decried the term. Which is probably why FFXVI has basically no RPG elements.
I would too. But charging upfront for a multiplayer game is pretty much a recipe for disaster these days. Subscription model I can't imagine would be popular either. It's better to eliminate barriers to entry in a game that relies on a big player pool, game pass helps a bit but not much.
Yeah that's exactly my point. There wasn't much monetization to begin with and what little there was got criticized to death. Nobody wants to buy cosmetics in a game surrounded by that much negativity because they can lose it if the game dies. It's an impossible environment to make money in.
--skip-launcher in the launch options for that
So many people don't get this. Case in point: the latest Gundam game. The game is completely free, only a couple characters and some pointless cosmetics cost money. The characters you could get for $20 and the cosmetics were not expensive either, not even 1/10th as bad as something like Dota or Valorant. And yet people still complained about the monetization like crazy. It's almost like the people making the game aren't working for free and actually need to make money at some point...
I played 1 a few months ago (100%ed the Pixel Remaster) and was surprised how good it was. It's obviously rudimentary but that's not a really a problem because it's a short game.
Of course the comments are deflecting with whataboutism. Can't talk about China's systematically racist institution of forced labor, basically a modern day Holocaust. Nope, nuh-uh. Let's focus on America's private prison issue instead.
like they couldn’t imagine the possibility of a life without Reddit
That's exactly what they are saying with that comment and that's sad as fuck
Final Fantasy in it's heyday outsold Zelda by a lot