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They have The New World coming out in August, yeah. It was due out in May but most people following it figured it was going to be delayed. They'd already rebooted it once when it was in Alpha.
How do you launch a competitive multiplayer game without any of these
That's the thing, it kinda just showed up on Steam one day and nobody told anyone. I never even heard of it until like 2-3 days before it launched.
That's like asking how google mess up stadia so badly. These big tech companies view gaming as another revenue stream to try and monopolise, but that also means these things are kind of afterthoughts to them and lack any passion or real oversight. Microsoft doing so well is kind of a fluke at this point.
Yeah, it's quite funny how hard it is for these companies to get into gaming. They've all bought their ways into film/TV/Music but still can't break into gaming.
I think these big tech companies just don't understand the gaming market. They think they can just gather some warm bodies and throw money at them to make good things happen. The management needs to be effective as well.
Member when they bought the studio behind the Killer Instinct and Strider reboots?
Microsoft really showed how to do it. Mind you, they were helped by getting some decent Sega games after they went third party.
I see. They probably play tested it locally so they didn't see these issues that affect people globally.
Me too, I loved Paragon. It was a more polished Smite (I don't like it as it feels too archaic) and I'm pretty sad when they shut it down.
There is more people in the steam group chat than there is playing the actual game, Sub 300 concurrent and that's after giving away a season pass.
The game was not ready for even an early access launch. Not sure it will ever recover. Didn't even launch with voice chat.
Heck, the SEGA games didn't even pop up until several months after the og Xbox. These other big tech companies are just really going about their entire entry like their shit doesn't stink. Keep in mind, MS had a gaming division for YEARS (decades?) prior to actually entering into the industry in full force too. They already had a solid, if mostly pc centric and relatively small, suite of devs and products, experience publishing, etc. Really all they did was scale up massively and enter the console space. Google and Amazon are like trying to skip that initial step and become just a giant publisher out of nowhere, or in Google's case literally trying to be MS circa 2005 without actually having the previous 15 years of experience in the industry.
