In a quick break from the insanity in the real world, I thought I'd see what everyone was playing, or looking to play.
Being a huge X-Wing/Tie Fighter fan, I'd really like to play Star Wars: Squadrons, but I refuse to give EA money, and the developer pushing bullshit pronoun nonsense sealed the deal.
Instead, I'm about to start Yakuza Kiwami for the first time.
What are you guys enjoying right now?
Even if you put aside SW Squadron's woke pandering for a second, have you seen the player count?
It's been out for less than a month, and they're already down to 1000~2500 players online. Which, for a pubbie matchmaking game, sounds like the death spiral of long queue times, newbies getting stomped by die-hard fans, and orders from marketing to implement desperate moves to gain new players at the risk of the existing player base.
And when CP77 comes out, you can just imagine how those numbers will look in a month from now.
It makes me sad, because I love the spaceship dog-fighting genre. I fear that when smaller studios see that even EA's budget and SW's brand combined cannot guarantee you a financial success, they'll choose less risky genres to work on instead.
Next overhyped bomb of a title. How many shitty, gimmicky GTA clones exist now? There used to be lots, most ended up defunct. Only Watch Dogs, Saints Row and GTA itself remain.
You do get that games where set in cities before gta right?