Sega's policies as of late
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Go ahead and let Sega know what you think https://twitter.com/SEGA_OFFICIAL/status/1752542261857177708
Also time to start adding bad reviews to all Sega games just for the company's bad behavior
As a PSO2 fan, you guys don't want to know what ridiculous content slog there's been with New Genesis. I finally dropped it last summer, still checking the news from time to time. Boring events with no real dialogue, bad collabs, story going nowhere (there hasn't been a single new location since the first act finally ended). I have no idea where they're going, but it's not keeping me on board.
Sega is doing the worse out of all the mainstream japanese game companies. Hyenas costed them 100 mill. They gave up on their arcades. All they have are pochinko parlors and they are active with only 4 of their IP's. Sonic, persona, and yakuza. 2 of which, recently, has source/localization problems.
Freemium games are the devil. The only way to end their ways is to deny them players and scorn them and people that play them every single time they're mentioned.
You know what's great?
No one's actually catering to western customers, markets, or palates.
They're only catering to the corporation's DIE team.
to be fair, sega's been on a downward spiral since the genesis/megadrive days
What a shame. In the console wars I always supported them as the underdog. Now they can't sink fast enough. All we wanted to do was play video games.
put them out of their misery is more or less how I feel at this point...
The only Sega IP I care about is Valkyria Chronicles, and I seriously doubt they'll make another one of those (although 4 coming out did surprise me, so who knows). Otherwise I really wouldn't miss them at all.
VC is a dead IP because there is basically nothing left they can do with the one singular war and they lack the balls or creativity to invent a new war to play in from scratch.
Yeah, I always had this idea in the back of my head where they could move the timeline forwards and do like a cold war period style story, maybe with playable teams on both sides of the conflict to highlight the tragedy of war. That's what I would do if I was in charge of the IP anyway.
Well, every thing whoever in charge of the IP tried to do was a massive failure despite trying to bank on a popular factor. 2 tried for high school, 3 tried for darker story, Revolution went for bigger tits on a new Valkyria. Which is why they gave up and just redid 1 with 4.
So while there is plenty that could be done with the idea, whoever is in charge cannot manage to grasp any of them and can only repeat the fluke that was 1.
Also, it'll be a lot harder to make any game involving a Not-Jew race these days, so they can't even do that anymore.
Yeah I never really cared about the handheld games or Revolution. They were TOO anime and tropey. Literally the only ones I enjoyed were 1 and 4, both of which I think played to the strengths of the setting AND the fairly unique gameplay.
Bear in mind that the series was already basically dead after the handheld titles until Sega decided on a whim to release a PC port of the original and it became wildly popular, which basically spurred the production of 4.
I wouldn't entirely write it off for that reason alone. I suspect the only chance for a revival at this point though is if Sega dies and the IP gets picked up by a more competent publisher.