I think it’s fair to say Sony actually doesn’t care about a successful game or not. They want a permanent recurring slice of the PC gaming market pie. Games be damned. They want their own platform like epic
I’m sure the thinking is, Sony is already making games for this PlayStation platform. With publisher money and in-house studios. Creating their own online store platform like epic, would just be extra money for them. And help grow a market they haven’t tapped yet. They’re not thinking about it as giving up money that they could have made just by being on steam.
This is a big hypothetical, I’m doing lots of projection, and reading into their PSN moves. But it lines up
I don’t wanna be a party pooper but the Steam conccurent players doesn’t reflect that at all. The downward trend (that all games have after release) has not changed velocity at all.
This. The game had an insanely strong peak but is leveling off. It will peak again with new Factions introduced and if there are big expansions, but there are other games too. My friends went and played some other stuff, and even I have no desire to grind up to level 150 for no reason, and have already finished all the warbonds.
If they’re lucky it holds a strong 50k player base over time and they can keep healthy matchmaking and an active community. But drop off is kinda inevitable.
The sales lockout in certain territories is a legal issue. It sucks, but they gotta figure that out now.
They aren’t killing off their own games tho. Players were more than happy to shame other players into changing their review back to positive and just keep playing.
It really is amazing how Sony is still learning to kill off their own games.
The major order has less players because of Sony’s stupid push to bulk up PSN numbers.
I think it’s fair to say Sony actually doesn’t care about a successful game or not. They want a permanent recurring slice of the PC gaming market pie. Games be damned. They want their own platform like epic
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I’m sure the thinking is, Sony is already making games for this PlayStation platform. With publisher money and in-house studios. Creating their own online store platform like epic, would just be extra money for them. And help grow a market they haven’t tapped yet. They’re not thinking about it as giving up money that they could have made just by being on steam.
This is a big hypothetical, I’m doing lots of projection, and reading into their PSN moves. But it lines up
I don’t wanna be a party pooper but the Steam conccurent players doesn’t reflect that at all. The downward trend (that all games have after release) has not changed velocity at all.
This. The game had an insanely strong peak but is leveling off. It will peak again with new Factions introduced and if there are big expansions, but there are other games too. My friends went and played some other stuff, and even I have no desire to grind up to level 150 for no reason, and have already finished all the warbonds.
If they’re lucky it holds a strong 50k player base over time and they can keep healthy matchmaking and an active community. But drop off is kinda inevitable.
The sales lockout in certain territories is a legal issue. It sucks, but they gotta figure that out now.
They aren’t killing off their own games tho. Players were more than happy to shame other players into changing their review back to positive and just keep playing.