Whereas it’s a meme and a joke, there’s positively reality to it. As an business, we’ve already moved in that path with out folks actually noticing. The reality of the matter is that dwell service video games, the form of video games which have common content material updates, are actually “shorter video video games with worse graphics made by people who find themselves paid extra to work much less”. We’re leveraging our present instruments and belongings to make extra recreation with much less effort. We’ve received shorter dev cycles so we scope down and crunch much less. The truth that we are able to preserve the gamers enjoying on a fast cadence is what makes it sustainable.
This strategy breaks down if we’re attempting to ship a number of smaller video games – it’s onerous to construct up an viewers that may maintain a recreation franchise like that. Particular person launches have extra prices like advertising and marketing, certification, distribution, and so forth. Getting folks to purchase new video games is considerably tougher than getting them to proceed enjoying a recreation they already like.
Past that, constructing a brand new recreation usually requires vital ramping up and exploration – we have to determine what the core gameplay is, what we’re constructing, how we’re going to create all the required content material, establishing the instruments, and so forth. That takes a major period of time, after which we nonetheless want to truly construct all the pieces we deliberate out. Gamers anticipate separate video games to be basically totally different, which bites us if we’re releasing smaller titles quicker. This is without doubt one of the major causes episodic video games didn’t work as a enterprise mannequin besides below very strict situations – even going from episode to episode is lots tougher than including on to an present recreation.
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