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Microsoft completely misjudged Baldur’s Gate 3
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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Only if your goal is selling the game and not the console
They're not selling large amounts of either.
MS is in the subscription selling business now. Their entire gaming future hinges on GamePass, and while I like the idea of games on tap (I've basically bought BG3 for my PS5 and nothing else in the year since I bought it, enough on PS+ to keep me going and I can barely catch up let alone keep up), I suspect the big devs that spend hundreds of millions on making AAA games are less than enthralled with the idea and if GamePass and day one "free" games win, the outcome will be more games that I'm not really interested in.
PS+ is not as good a product as GamePass, but I believe it's healthier overall for the gaming industry.
When you say PS Plus, do you mean the Essentials tier which is (was) equivalent to Gold or the other tiers?
For the record, I think PS Plus Premium and Extra are great (until the price hike). The vast majority of time when I want to play a game day-1, it's not something that's even on GamePass. So their day-1 stuff means nothing to me.
But also, Essentials has given me enough to play I could just never run out of games.
The higher tiers. Not sure about the top one (Premium) any more. I got it because I thought I might want to play the older games, but it turns out there's plenty of PS4 and PS5 games to keep me going, and frankly not enough choice of PS1 and 2 games to tempt me. A more complete library would have made sense, but I've literally got more on my shelf than they've got on PS Plus Premium.
And my internet is too rubbish for me to want to stream the handful of PS3 games either. It hasn't even got MGS4 which would be the one interesting thing that hasn't been anywhere else.
A worst product is better for the industry because gamers should pay for inferiority?
What are you smoking?
I'd rather play great games 18 months after they come out, than mediocre games on day one. What's hard to understand here?
The industry needs that day one £60 a box money, the same way the film industry can't do without cinema takings.
If it doesn't get it, we devolve further down the predatory DLC route.
Then we get great titles from other studios that just repackage the same shit day in and day out.
How’s that working out for them?
The reason it's not working out is because they had no exclusives, now they do and the people on the platform that always had exclusives are suddenly upset.
PlayStation doesn’t buy out IP that once was on all platforms and turn it exclusive you knob. They have ip that begin as exclusive.
These aren’t the same things.
If Microsoft want to exclusives, they should home grow it like Sony does. But they can’t. So they just buy it out.
They’re the Yankees of gaming, only they still can have a successful season.