Gaming is cheaper now than its ever been before

[MeachTheMonster]

EVERY game that COULD release content through out the year, DID release free content through out the year youngin


we pay $5-15 for map packs that used to be free

Which games are you talking about specifically?

I can't remember any that gave free/content maps after the original purchase.

 

[itsyoung!!]

Which games are you talking about specifically?

I can't remember any that gave free/content maps after the original purchase.

Call of Duty 1-4

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Call of Duty 1-4

Call of duty one was PC only and the expansion pack was not free. The rest of them were on consoles and the map packs were not free either.

Do you have any other examples?

 

[Kodie]

That's not entirely true.

The problem is Curt Schilling took out a loan from Rhode Island he realistically could never pay back. They're actually investigating whether or not this was incompetence, or if he willfully duped RI into giving him a loan he knew he could never pay back.

He had a total of $138 mill in debt before the game even came out, despite the fact that it didn't cost anywhere near that much to make the game.

So the company was fukked regardless of whether or not the game sold well.

Fred.

Technically the debt accrued should have been for the MMO as well but yeah you're right - I failed to acknowledge that studio being investigated for corruption. There are other such cases like Dyack and his studios. Between corruption and just general poor management, there's plenty of room for budgets to go down I think. But I'm not in the industry so who am I to say.

 

[hex]

Technically the debt accrued should have been for the MMO as well but yeah you're right - I failed to acknowledge that studio being investigated for corruption. There are other such cases like Dyack and his studios. Between corruption and just general poor management, there's plenty of room for budgets to go down I think. But I'm not in the industry so who am I to say.

I dunno if you played the game or not but there was a couple other factors that made it flop as well.

I'm gonna nerd out a sec but bear with me.

First off, there was no ceiling for critical damage, or critical hit rate. In other words, with the right gear every hit would be critical, making other stats like Attack useless. And since there was no cap on critical hit damage, you'd have normal hits doing 3,000, and special attacks doing 300,000. Just raping the shyt out of everything in the game.

Lastly, if you maxed out the Gem Craft and Blacksmithing, you could create retarded armor and weapons that blew everything else in the game out of the water. So it made treasure in the game pointless.

It was a fun game but those things kinda ruined it.

Fred.

 

[Fatboi1]

.74 cents for Sonic All Star Racing Transformed DLC.

 

[Aufheben]

rofl @ feeling bad because these people spend money on making wack games and people don't buy them

make better games

the best games don't cost a lot of money to make and that's a fact.