Benjamin 's view of things may well be correct. However, the sad fact is that no matter how correct it is, it won 't be used as the basis for actual business decision making. r n r nGame companies cannot base their business decisions on how certain developments will affect ...
I have no serious opinion about the rapey stuff or whatever people talk about above . r n r nBut the trailer is totally tone-deaf to anyone who actually remembers the original games. r nSo there is a definite smell of a fine IP being butchered. r n r nThis ...
It 's not economy/resource management per se. Figuring out how to perform a certain task using a given resource budget is a fine game mechanic. r n r nYou 've already stated the reasons for not using money very well in your post. The sheer universality of money, which makes ...
The interesting question here is the extent to which this is a zero-sum game. Will any store that is perceived as being good for developers attract so many games that in the end, noone is better off anyway
I agree that intentional is a useful term here. It doesn 't have to be that abstract: consider the Kinect problem when your character encounters an obstacle that stops its motion while there is nothing stopping your body IRL so it just keeps moving, creating a discrepancy. In this case, ...
Good question. There are fewer of these limitations than you might think. For example, developers like to complain about the small amount of RAM in current consoles. But tens of millions of PC:s already have 4GB or more. So if this really is a problem, i.e. there are many new ...
ME2 and ME3 were great disappointments. I regret buying them. Phew, glad to get that off my chest. r n r nLevel design, combat, story, characters - it 's all strangely rigid, unimaginative and repetitive. r n r nIt 's all just covered in a layer of gloss and hype ...
The three versions of Rage has sold 2.21M according to VGchartz. This is probably less than bethesda expected. But it doesn't seem so bad that it's the main reason for the layoffs. What do I know.
At this point we don't really know whether the ability of FTP games to generate money is permanent or depending of the novelty of the whole thing. Perhaps the 5 of the customers who spend money will eventually come to their senses and switch to games that are fun without ...
