I guarantee they hate BG3, it was a story heavy single player game that was scoped and budgeted well, took time to make and made money. Everything they think can’t be done. They can’t get out of the old mindset of thinking quarter to quarter in a world where games can’t release like that.
I suspect that's exactly why they're making all this GaaS noise. It certainly calms any investors who might think "huh, didn't this studio make the prequels to that big hit from last year...? Why wasn't this in that genre?"
Because c'mon, Bioware made Anthem, Suicide Squad went down like it did, there's no real reason to be so confident that sticking to the GaaS version of this game would be been anything more or less than a bomb
Not to mention that live services that aren't MMOs have proven to be the new boondoggle that replaced the MMO boondoggles of 2005-2014, except with less of a plan to retain players. You can make 4 or 5 AA or low AAA games for the price of developing and maintaining a GaaS and be less likely to bust!
This phenomenon is why these execs are SO thoroughly discredited. It's just not new. It has been happening since the mid 2000s. They can't come to grips with this idea that a market with just 1-3 huge forever games is EXTREMELY hard to enter, whether it's WoW, CoD, Fortnite, looter shooters...
The people playing those games have also probably already found their one game like that too. Like, for me it's Fallout 76. There is no room in my heart or schedule for another and it's going to take A LOT to get me to move from a place I've dedicated so much time and money to.
Hell, Fortnite itself was originally going for Minecraft's spot before balking and realizing they had a chance to be the big name in the emerging BR space. And look at Minecraft, all these years later.... It's still Minecraft.
maybe it’s just fan-brained of me but I can’t think of anything that would make me more upset gaming-wise than live-service Dragon Age. there’s no world where that doesn’t suck. the backlash against that idea was justified.
I don’t care for ME but I worry for the ME fans if this is the lesson
A dedicated Dragon Age MMO or co-op RPG with a veteran online development team that is dedicated to pushing out regular, high-quality content updates, maybe exploring other eras or regions? Sign me up
A lowest-common-denominator Destiny knock-off "live service" (what the EA CEO means)? Blech
In other words, I'd take an online Dragon Age with the depth of Final Fantasy XIV or ESO; or a game with a co-op system like BG3 or Solasta, but not a shallow cash-in the EA CEO seems to want.
Yep, co-op would be great. New "modules" dropping like for Neverwinter Nights. Hell, NWN even has player-run persistent worlds that are a lot of fun. That would be great. But they meant Anthem with a Dragon Age skin for sure. Or something like Neverwinter, the 2010s one.
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I don’t care for ME but I worry for the ME fans if this is the lesson
A lowest-common-denominator Destiny knock-off "live service" (what the EA CEO means)? Blech