I agree, and would also add needing to be online as a criteria as well. I was just confused on the OP also calling MK8 a GaaS, and am curious if that sentiment is generally shared by people here. I have personally never considered MK8 GaaS, even with the DLC tracks.
So much good stuff out there this year.
Genshin Impact is a Gaas title though, which OP hates.
This is probably the core of the issue, a certain demographic doesn't like the shift Gaas is bringing.
Most probably do.
I don’t have that sort of time for gaming. Fortnite releases constant updates, you need to be on 4-5 hours a day just on that one game to keep up.
It's all in your head though, you don't need be online in all those games at all.
I like to unlock stuff.
But then that's a 'you'-issue, rather than Gaas.I like to unlock stuff.
I don’t play multiplayer games for its repetitive gameplay.
Topics like these fall apart the moment you look beyond these live-service games and see what else typically becomes immensely popular.
For example, I would say it's an objective fact that Fortnite has evolved and expanded more in 7 years than mainline Pokemon games have done in almost three decades.
Am I supposed to hate on Fortnite while celebrating stagnate franchises like Pokemon simply because Fortnite is completly free-to-play, whereas a buggy Pokemon game charges $60?
There is no shift, online games have been popular since the 90s. And the main genres dominating are still more or less the same from back them, competitive shooters and grinders.
Talking more about a generational "shift" where the demographic is leaning more towards online functionalities and support, rather than traditional offline sp games and archaic designs.
And like i said, this lean towards a very limited set of online games and functionalities has been a thing since the 90s. There is no generational shift. And i don't wanna hear about "archaic design" when people are still playing dust_2 20 years later.
Because we arent agreeing at all, you're seeing things that aren't there. I assume you're either very young or you've only came in contact with the gaming scene at large in the mid 2010s.
Gloating as a Service. You love GaaS.
I'm talking about preferences from the gaming demographics. Most revenue comes from Gaas and services, because that's where shift in gaming is headed towards.
I'm 40 and started gaming on Atari 2600.
Gaas is just a business model, and not a new one either even if it wasn't always called that. Steam itself was created for the sake of bringing live updates for Valve's online games among other reasons. The games are still the more or less the same too.
I'm not saying online gaming merely started a long time ago, i'm saying it has been extremely popular since a long time ago.
Then i assume you disconnected yourself from anything gaming related since the late 80s until the mid 2010s, otherwise you'd understand perfectly well what i'm talking about.
I know exactly what you're saying.
I know exactly what you're saying.
If someone feels like they have to be playing a Gaas-title 24/7, they lack self-control.
I think that some people want new games to bring the noise by having some amazing new graphical fidelity. If that is their priority, they don't care at all about new IP or fun new gameplay. The problem is that outside gaas you have a world of people using old engines with a lot of technical debt, and many people doing something "new" are anyway just using Unreal Engine which is a gaas engine for Fortnite.But then that's a 'you'-issue, rather than Gaas.
Also, Souls-games are repetitive as well.
Not directed at you per se, but it seems like most of the anti-Gaas crowd are either anti-social gamers or lack self-control.
Maybe for western games but this year alone we got plenty of SP focus Japanese games.
I mean, he played Granblue Fantasy Relink and Monster hunter, which are more or less GaaS. Most people's problems with GaaS are obnoxious monetization and forced online "features".Embrace your dark side, and give into the GaaS temptation like I did.
