He points out that Sega's own reddit posts said costs are relatively flat, while CA (as a Sega subsidiary) is claiming costs are up. CA has expanded other teams (increasing their own costs), while WH III has had lackluster updates (reskins and smaller DLCs) compared to say... Medieval II Kingdoms.
I have to agree: CA has been caught with its hand in the DLC cookie jar and if they're allowed they will make these prices their new normal.
To be fair to that game, it had a lot going for it. It was one of the earliest Vampire Survivor ripoffs, which was one of the biggest indie games of last year. And it let people collect waifus (the one gambling hit VS was missing) of their actual oshis who have an inbuilt massive audience.
Then all the Hololive girls started playing it and making it look good, which drove positive attention in droves.
I doubt many games could actually top it with all that going for it.
It's also legitimately good. The most recent update has finally put the difficulty level at right where I've always hoped all VS-like games would be at.
Right, I was just pointing out that its a bit more than just a little indie fangame.
But Blizzard wouldn't be putting themselves on Steam, and opening themselves up to this kind of mockery, if they had even close to an respectable amount of players to begin with.
Also true. That's something ironically most VS clones failed as well. They try to charge "indie game prices" where the original that people were still playing was 3$ and that was one of the biggest keys to its success.
I think Arch was going on mentioning this too as if we didn't push back, they'd make it their policy going forward
All major studios seem to have run out of 'goodwill' nowadays, hell Overwatch 2 has less players than an Indie fan game made of Hololive vtubers..
Yeah. the archcast has done two videos on it:
One.
Two.
He points out that Sega's own reddit posts said costs are relatively flat, while CA (as a Sega subsidiary) is claiming costs are up. CA has expanded other teams (increasing their own costs), while WH III has had lackluster updates (reskins and smaller DLCs) compared to say... Medieval II Kingdoms.
I have to agree: CA has been caught with its hand in the DLC cookie jar and if they're allowed they will make these prices their new normal.
To be fair to that game, it had a lot going for it. It was one of the earliest Vampire Survivor ripoffs, which was one of the biggest indie games of last year. And it let people collect waifus (the one gambling hit VS was missing) of their actual oshis who have an inbuilt massive audience.
Then all the Hololive girls started playing it and making it look good, which drove positive attention in droves.
I doubt many games could actually top it with all that going for it.
It's also legitimately good. The most recent update has finally put the difficulty level at right where I've always hoped all VS-like games would be at.
What game are you all talking about?
True, but then you compare that to Blizzard and Blizzard should at least have thousands more players......if they weren't so shit at their jobs.
Right, I was just pointing out that its a bit more than just a little indie fangame.
But Blizzard wouldn't be putting themselves on Steam, and opening themselves up to this kind of mockery, if they had even close to an respectable amount of players to begin with.
It is also free. You can have a lot of leeway with "free".
Also true. That's something ironically most VS clones failed as well. They try to charge "indie game prices" where the original that people were still playing was 3$ and that was one of the biggest keys to its success.