What a surprise, the company that has been proven to sway the course of elections for profit might well do it again!
What a surprise, the company that has been proven to sway the course of elections for profit might well do it again!
It gained traction by being free.
I see there are good numbers on release but I would take them with a pinch of salt. Apparently it had between 500,000 and 700,000 concurrent players on release which is already down to 300,000. Estimates of over 7mil unique players.
Now look at The Finals which has 8mil unique players. It had 250,000 concurrent players on release and is now down to around 15,000 6 months later.
Reviews wise The Finals did better on both critic and public ratings. Arguably (in my opinion) the Finals has a less interesting replayability loop but is more polished and higher quality gameplay wise.
The fact is these numbers are sadly pretty common drop offs for f2p shooters, as a lot of people want to check them out but not stick with them. Will be interesting to see how the player number fare when the next CoD comes out on Game Pass.
I think fantastic is overstating it a bit. It feels like a middle of the road CoD. Kind of a boots on the ground version of one of the hero shooter Black Ops entries with a little roughness to it.
Not bad but not great either. For the price though, it’s great value.
I’d rather have a dynasty of lettuce.
in Arkansas
in Celsius
Does not compute. Them there’s freedom units.
It’s true it does cost to keep things running. But like you say there are ways around this to push server costs onto players, or simply allow offline play with online features disabled.
I think if there were legislation in place then design decisions would adapt. If it were costly to just shut a game down abruptly, there would be player hosted options in place from the start and ideally less spurious “always online” requirements woven into the fabric of every game.
Those are some pixels alright
They’re pushing the limits of this simulation to see how much bullshit we can tolerate. Turns out it’s a LOT.
Only the US is allowed to ruin elections.
This feels borderline criminal. Yeah it’s 11 years old, but if someone told you that an early access game stays in early access a decade, that means you need to buy it again on release, would you?
Checks out. If your heart rate is too slow or too fast you’re probably doing a sin.
Impressive. How do you go about starting a defensive war of conquest?
Oh wow, you actually believe that…
That’s right, just Biden. No previous president was ever in full support of Israel.
Yeah the banning of protests happen right after Brexit if I recall correctly
But they hit so many buzzwords. 20 year old buzzwords even!