A reader suggests making all single-player video games shorter won’t solely assist with budgets however guarantee folks aren’t delay from enjoying them.
Video video games are presently in disaster, there’s little question about that. Console gross sales are down, the price of making video games is up, and the variety of totally different genres which are nonetheless economically viable are shrinking by the day. Not solely that however the variety of video games persons are enjoying is shrinking too, as many keep on with the identical reside service recreation they’ve been enjoying for years and purchase even much less new video games than they ever did.
That’s why Recreation Cross and different subscription companies haven’t made an impression: not as a result of folks don’t assume they’re good worth for cash however as a result of they don’t assume they’ll have time to make the most of it.
Whereas it’s apparent why reside service video games wish to preserve you enjoying as a lot as doable I don’t know why bloat has turn out to be such a critical concern for contemporary video games. Everybody needs to get their cash’s price however why are Murderer’s Creed, and Zelda, and Starfield, and video games like that so stuffed with trivial, repetitive duties and missions? Why can nothing simply inform an easy story inside, say, 12 hours after which simply finish?
You may have optionally available aspect quests, after all, however so many trendy single-player video games are victims of such bloated extra that enjoying them appears like taking over second job. When all I wished to do was have some enjoyable and see how the story ends.
I do know I’m not the one one which thinks like this, as a result of I see folks complaining about it on a regular basis, each on-line, within the Inbox, and inside my very own pal group. Nobody has time for this, and nobody enjoys doing the identical factor again and again. Effectively, okay, perhaps they do in a reside service recreation however not in what’s purported to be a story-based expertise.
My answer to this downside is easy: don’t make any single-player video games last more than 12 hours. I’m not saying we must always make that the legislation, however publishers and builders have to get collectively and agree that issues are uncontrolled and until they rein it in then the entire video games business goes to be in much more hassle.
In case you’re studying this and considering, ‘However I like lengthy video games!’ that’s advantageous. I’m not having a go at you. However the issue is it’s unsustainable. Video games are already too costly to make, and wish too many individuals, so making an attempt to make all of them final 60+ hours on prime of that’s insanity.
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Perhaps you’d have extra hassle charging £70/$70 for the sport if it was shorter however I’m unsure that’s true. Even simply charging final gen costs would nonetheless present loads of revenue, because the recreation was cheaper to make and extra folks will likely be tempted to get it.
60+ hours has turn out to be the present customary just because a lot of video games have carried out it. Have a yr or so of all the pieces being 12 hours and £50/$50 and I believe you’d see income go up and other people can be so much happier. What folks need is worth for cash, not infinite playtime, so make the size of the sport proportional to what it prices and everybody will likely be higher off.
By reader Kasshern
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