I don't fully disagree, but at least those games can still pass up as great competitive games. Modern sports games aren't even that since so much of the competitive element relies on ultimate team. Like i said, worst of the worst.
And to a lesser extent piracy. But yeah, being able to just tweak or entirely import a new roster into your favorite version of a sports game kinda ruins the whole business model. Granted I haven't really played a sports game in a long time, but I imagine the value added by modders these days would be insane.
Plus Madden, Fifa, NBA2K are all on PC, if they cared about modding, piracy etc they wouldnt bring their biggest titles. My guess is that they just want to focus on the big titles with big MTX userbases. The rest probably just arent worth porting.
That and convenience.
PC/steam is literally thriving on monetisation hell with a lot of valve games, what's a few more?
Nothing compares to modern sports games monetization. Not fortnite, no competitive steam game, none of those chinese gacha, not even mobile slop. Closest thing is COD but even that is left on the dust. They're on a level of their own, the worst of the worst, the lowest games ever went in terms of nickel and diming, an amalgamation of every single scummy practice that exists within the industry, and very successful at it too.
What exactly makes sports game monetisation any worse than the borderline illegal monetisation in Counter Strike and its scummy underground scene? Or the mtx in Dota2? There is hardly any difference.
They have that all that + pay-to-win mechanics with gambling on top of that, yearly franchises costing 60/70 dollars, and have even been introducing in-game ads.
Gambling on top of that? Not really, plus you say that like Counter Strike doesn't have the most shady and unmatched gambling scene of any game in existence:
www.eurogamer.net
Gambling on top of that? Not really, plus you say that like Counter Strike doesn't have the most shady and unmatched gambling scene of any game in existence:
Plus they're in-game advertising too
Counter-Strike gets in-game ads
Counter-Strike has become the latest game to offer in-game adverts of real world brands.
People have also argued that CS and Dota are pay to win. The sweats buy the skins with the stupidly reduced hitboxes and better camo. The sweats pay the Dota+ sub to let them choose proper roles in ranked matches. It's really no different to CoD or sports games. I would say it is worse simply because of that shady gambling scene.
They are tied in to the gameplay mechanics on Dota and CS too. You can buy skins with a 16% smaller head hitbox in counterstrike. You can pay a sub to be able to better pick roles in Dota. How is that not tied to gameplay? You don't need to go to shady gambling sites for things like that either. There are countless complaints of ads in CS that are more recent especially adverts of those shady gambling sites during map load. Ads were on official valve servers as well. They're built in to CS for this purpose, to be able to push ads in the game. Don't even get me started on the in-game shop ads either.
Dude, this 16% was something some youtuber found years after the fact, no one even noticed up till then. On top of that it already got fixed so clearly not even an intended mechanic. On the other hand stuff like ultimate team literally gives you considerably faster players.
You don't seem to follow it very well then. Valves official servers were contracted out to an advertising company called Pinion. The Pinion White Label servers were the official valve servers.
This was 11+ years ago and thats no longer the case. Like i said, outdated information.
You called the initial article outdated yet they still did it 6 years later. They still have it now just not on specific servers because you said they were community ones. I just showed you they were on official Valve servers too being ran by an advertising company. I just don't see how valve setting up this ingame ad system for decades is any better for the experience than the sports games PC is now missing. especially compared to something like NHL where rink ads would be less intrusive than this shit.
It doesn't do now and that's what matters. And community servers are run by random people, you can't really control what is or isn't in those, just avoid the ones that have this shit. Can't avoid them on sports games tho.
