Fallout 76

Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2019, 13:10 PMAmiPolizeiFunk

What a glorious video. Maybe the industry will check itself with all of this pay-to-win microtransaction bullshit.

During Activision Blizzard investor call today, the company revealed that they are continuing to make staggering amounts of money from microtransactions from their entire library of games.

They stated that they earned $800 million in the last three months from in-game items across their franchises.

Activision also stated that their new “initiatives” that they are implementing in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has lead to stronger engagement from the community, and that they have seen a higher microtransaction revenues from Black Ops 4 than Call of Duty: WWII.
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The core gaming communities that have interacted with the company for years have started to hate on them to new levels because of the lack of care for their feedback. Activision executives continue to show that the community feedback for their games, especially Call of Duty, is going on deaf ears.

Black Ops 4 has one of the worst MTX systems the franchise has ever seen, but according to Activision, it’s a model that is being ’embraced’ which is very worrisome as we look towards Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The company continues to embrace the RNG system with game changing items locked by supply drops even as lawmakers around the world are looking to ban such models going forward.

BETHESDA have managed to create a Civil War within FALLOUT 76 with the addition of the 1st Membership. People who purchased this $ 100 annual fee are now being targeted by "76ers" for doing so

Fallout 76’s Fallout 1st subscription service has created class warfare within the game’s world.
The launch of Fallout 1st, a a $99-a-year subscription to Fallout 76 that grants members private servers, unlimited stash and other benefits has been very rocky.

Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2020, 20:02 PMAmiPolizeiFunk

I want to love Fallout again as I was a huge fan of the first four, but it's hard to see myself spending money on the franchise after with what they've done with 76. Even if it's better, even if they listened to feedback, even if it's a great game on Steam... I just can't see myself giving money to those crooks.

Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2020, 15:36 PMFelinewolfie

EA's great at that.
Buy succesful IP, turn it into MTX. Squeeze the juice hard.
Fire the employee, terminate the company.
Rinse, Repeat.