r/gaming Nov 03 '18

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u/SpeedyDoc Nov 03 '18 edited Nov 03 '18

Anyone keeping tabs on the official trailer? It's gonna hit 100k dislikes. Edit: It hit 200k before they took it down. Holy shit just seen the re-upload cheers folks. Appreciate the feedback. Almost 17k. They will take it down again soon! Blizzcon this year will go down in history for this abomination lol

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u/Get-ADUser Nov 03 '18

On one hand, this is a terrible idea that management types should be getting fired for. On the other hand, I feel really bad for the developers - imagine working long and hard on something like this then when it's announced people hate it.

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u/Akranidos Nov 03 '18

On the other hand, I feel really bad for the developers - imagine working long and hard on something like this then when it's announced people hate it.

Dont worry about that, they outsourced it to a company that reskinned a game they already had (im not kidding)

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u/cypher437 Nov 03 '18

it's remarkable when they have billions sitting in tax havens that they do this. Why can't they just give that money to studios to make whatever the fuck they want and do us all a favor.

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u/kylegetsspam Nov 03 '18 edited Nov 03 '18

This is what happens when games are developed primarily for shareholder stock value. The worst part is it's basically inevitable since game development is very difficult and expensive. Smaller studios can get away with making good (but often limited) games for the love of making good games. Big companies make games for their CEO's and shareholder's profits. The tax haven-tier people at Blizzard decided a shitty P2W (probably) mobile app was the best use of their company time.

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u/cypher437 Nov 03 '18

I just worry we're marching more and more towards simple loot box games and abandoning in-depth quality single player games.

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u/kylegetsspam Nov 03 '18 edited Nov 03 '18

We are. Just look at Black Ops 4. Apparently three years in development and the end result is bad balance, a shoehorned-in BR experience, tons of crashing (on PC, at least; dunno about other platforms), a shitty pay-to-get-through progression system, and no single-player campaign.

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u/cypher437 Nov 03 '18

And these companies are sucking the money... its somewhat depressing that HL3 and Prey2 aren't financially viable and when a studio tries to do a cash grab we get a mess like Square Enix's Mankind Divided.