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Report: 95% of studios are working on or aim to release a live service game (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Well, if we're talking Path of Exile live service style, it's completely fine. The game is perfectly playable and enjoyable for free and wallet opens you cosmetics and some nice to have features (like bigger stash etc.), basically nothing gamebreaking. I played it quite a lot on a casual level, waiting for new Diablo (not necesarilly blizzard Diablo, just the essence of the original 2). It is fun and I played it mostly for free, when I decided to spend about AA level game of money to support the devs. Nithing forced me to do so, I just enjoyed the game and wanted to support the company. And I still think it's a great game and am looking forward to sequel.

But there's also another live service other than this one. Like that Diablo Immortal one. I haven't played it myself (and won't ever do it), but the drama around it was quite a big one. And no wonder it was! Holy hell, they're squeezing those balls hard. Even if the game was all fun and games I wouldn't touch it with its style of microtransactions, loot gambling and other bullshittery.

If studuos are working on this second style live service, then they should probably go bankrupt straight away.