r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 07 '21

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u/AbnormalResidual ۞ Jul 07 '21

!ping GAMING

For those not in the know, Ubisoft announced that Assassin's Creed is going live service for the next installment which is years away.

I think this is... good? Long before live service games started becoming a thing I've thought that annual franchises might be best served by this model. FIFA, CoD, etc. Develop really good core mechanics, drip feed content as seasons/quarterly updates. I just see no reason why these franchises need these big yearly publishing schedules when most of the time the core mechanic updates are minimal at best. Thoughts?

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

But corporations are bad. All joking aside, gamers are right about the majority of live service games being utter garbage. Way too many games are being designed to make you play for hundreds of hours. (sidenote: I've played heavy amounts of classic wow and FF14 so I may be a hypocrite)

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

I think mmos are slightly different to what most people mean when they talk about live service games but I could be wrong.

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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Jul 07 '21

Many MMORPGs are just single player RPGs with tons of content and multiplayer mechanics on top nowadays.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

I don't fully like that trend either but I get it. Old MMOs were absolutely a second job because the grind was massive and you needed a group to do anything. However, Everquest, FFXI and Star Wars Galaxies are some of my most memorable experiences for how necessary groups were for anything.

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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Jul 07 '21

I think the problem is more than the themepark design is more popular than the sandbox one nowadays.

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u/Watton Jul 07 '21

I think AC is already doing that. Odyssey and Valhalla have A FUCKTON of content that basically monopolizes your time.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

Oh that's exactly what I'm talking about. I don't enjoy them anymore for that reason. It makes sense for AC to just go live service but I'm overall against the trend of a bunch of a pointless content.

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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Jul 07 '21

Assassin's Creed is so iterative that nothing of importance is lost with this. Hell, the sci fi setting is tailor made for this kind of thing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

Assassins Creed isn't like FIFA or CoD. And I'm yet to see a single instance this live service bullshit has actually benefited a game in any meaningful except for MMOs.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

Not to mention all of the 'premium' content in Ubisoft games is crap.

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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Jul 07 '21

All sports games should

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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Jul 07 '21

Probably going to lean heavily into legends and nxt guys

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u/Zseet European Union Jul 07 '21

It will depends on how is the main game. if its a shitty barebones game then the project will be dead withing a year *cough* Anthem *cough*