"Game Pass players jump in for 5 minutes, then drop out."-Indiana Jones developer Machine Games

[Fatboi1]

The Indiana Jones developer has a fight club in its basement

MachineGames on its extracurricular activities, making games for Game Pass, and creating a good Indiana Jones game

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Anyone else kind of lowkey agree with this and have experienced this yourself?


I've noticed the times that I'll subscribe to Gamepass, PS+ or the one time I had Nintendo Online for the Switch,, I'll probably only sub for maybe one thing but if I do download and install multiple games, I'll probably barely get into the game and just not play it anymore. I think the best type of games for these services are quick and easy to play games that don't require too much exposition or w/e.



I know this behavior can fluff up the "X number of players have played this game" metric but I think it's true. I subbed for PS+ this month just to access Ghosts of Tsushima Director's cut and although I have access to a bunch of other games, I doubt I'll even play em.

 

[Pressure]

If the game is good and grips the player early on they’ll stay.

 

[Doomsday]

If the game is good and grips the player early on they’ll stay.

Right. Expedition 33 had great retention and was a Day 1 gamepass game. Sounds to me like he knows his game is trash and is blaming the consumer.

 

[Phantum]

Exactly what I did for Indiana Jones

 

[feelosofer]

Nah. Homie, you made a mediocre game and players reacted accordingly. Gamepass, PS+ I actually purchase the games that are dope so I can play them whenever.

 

[Sonny Bonds]

The people who would’ve bought the game if GamePass didn’t exist kept playing.

There’s a few games that I only tried for 5 minutes and a few that I tried for an hour or 2.

Most recently, I tried Robocop. I’m taking my time with it, but I’m more than half way through. It’s really good.

 

[ORDER_66]

like we said from the beginning...

 

[Arcavian]

Exactly what I did for Indiana Jones

Me too



I said damn this looks good... and never turned it back on

 

[UNATTACHED]

He's telling the truth

I did this with Indiana Jones, Clair obscure expedition 33, hellblade 2, doom and probably some other games I don't even remember

 

[Chris Cool]

I bet. I do the same shyt with ps plus.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Look at meachs game list. He’s right

 

[Kingshango]

Sounds about right.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

I played 10 mins of Indiana Jones... he's right

And starfield

 

[Rekkapryde]

Look at meachs game list. He’s right

 

[MeachTheMonster]

The full quote.

It's on Game Pass. There's going to be a lot of people trying this genre for the first time. It was very, very important to make the onboarding stronger and better than other titles. That was a big focus.

“As for Game Pass… We know the behavior of players. They jump in for five minutes and they drop out. You can take a certain amount of decisions based on that, but at the same time, you don't want to make too many concessions. It needs to be a great game for the player who plays all the way through. That's the most important part for us, being the story-centric studio as we are. It's a hard balance. You always know that you should worry about that more, but at the same time, you care about the grand scheme of things.”

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