Now that I think about it, this idea was probably a good one for standard release, not live service. People get enticed by IP rights even if they don’t necessarily devote hundreds of hours to a game like this.

It works for things like Injustice. They see a Batman/Superman fighting game even if they aren’t going to hit Gold rank in competitive. Even if they only hit 10 hours, they paid the entry price.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do they though? The biggest and most profitable games right now are all live services. Consumers are very much voting for live services.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They voted for a handful of them, and then violently voted against the next thousand.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same for every genre. For every Sonic or Mario there are 1,000 Bubsy's.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubsy

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

But they don't have any false expectations of making hundreds of millions of dollars, betting everything they have that it will.

[–] icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes but it’ll take years. Just keep the pressure up