Will Destiny do anything to combat The Division? (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 18:59 (3325 days ago) @ cheapLEY
edited by Cody Miller, Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 19:05

This is kind of the reason that a ten year plan is tough to work out, for a game where you are supposed to play it constantly. I mean, Halo had a 9 year run, but the games were not meant to be played repeatedly and everyday. You'd play each when it came out to continue the saga, play it more when you felt like it, revisit it every so often, then move on. If you set up your game that way, it simply doesn't matter what the competition is. That only matters when it comes to having some kind of multiplayer population.

There's always going to be other games people want to play. If your game can't survive that, it's a fundamental design defect.

The DLC / subscription model depends pretty heavily on people staying engaged with the game and constantly playing to want to buy the DLC. However, proper game releases every few years simply gives you a more complete, integrated, and new experience as well as value for money over DLC. Add to that the fact that traditional game releases do not require constant engagement, and it seems to me the episodic and perpetual DLC model is a failure both in terms of business and in terms of artistry.