I Was 100% Right About The Stupid Live Service Gold Rush (The Jimquisition)
This past week saw a whole pile of live services - including Rumbleverse - shut their doors. This follows Square Enix closing a whole bunch of similar games, and the overall trend of "games-as-a-service" falling apart.
Who called it? This girl called it!
I Was 100% Right About The Stupid Live Service Gold Rush (The Jimquisition) (YouTube)
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Can’t wait to watch this with dinner.
Were the bushes good for you?
As a consultant for game design and developer, I'm very happy about this. In the old days, it was all about telling people "No, your mmo idea is not going to replace WoW. Nobody can replace Wow. They had the advantage of being FIRST. You can't climb the damn mountain with them on top kicking you off." (When I say first, I mean first to corner the market.)
And definitely not with them having years more development time and billions more money.
Honestly I'm so relieved this is happening. I remember when that EA executive tried to make us believe single player games were dead and live service titles were the future. 🤦♂️
I'd agree, but I doubt these microtransaction-laden games are going anywhere. And the companies have already made their money. The only people hurt here are the players. It takes like a few grand a region to keep a cloud server running.