simple@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 天前MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted todaywww.videogameschronicle.comexternal-linkmessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1288arrow-down13
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minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down8·edit-214 天前The business model isn’t terrible, it makes money, but it is terrible for the consumer
minus-squareEnvy@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down3·14 天前If the business model were successful, then the GaaS model wouldnt be full of bloated corpses of failed projects
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·14 天前If you think that GaaS means that you have more failed projects, then look at how many normal games failed before launch.
minus-squareampersandrew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·14 天前GaaS means you have ongoing expenses after launch in a way that normal games do not. The costs are higher, but they keep chasing the much larger reward that only a super small percentage will ever achieve.
The business model isn’t terrible, it makes money, but it is terrible for the consumer
If the business model were successful, then the GaaS model wouldnt be full of bloated corpses of failed projects
If you think that GaaS means that you have more failed projects, then look at how many normal games failed before launch.
GaaS means you have ongoing expenses after launch in a way that normal games do not. The costs are higher, but they keep chasing the much larger reward that only a super small percentage will ever achieve.