This is why people still play/mod Fallout and Skyrim.

I’m exaggerating for dramatic effect, sure*. But headlines like this do not help inspire confidence in new games: Early Star Wars Outlaws PS5 players paid $110 only to have Ubisoft issue a new patch and tell them to start a new save file or face game-breaking bugs. The company has since tried damage control, but only because of all of the screaming.

The company will also discover that not as many people will buy early access to their next game; whether or not Ubisoft will amend their behavior in response to market response is still up in the air. Very possibly they will not.

In which case? Oh, well. Market forces have ways to deal with that kind of suboptimal response, too.

Via @TychoBrahe.

Moe Lane

*But not entirely. For all their wheezes and stutters, older games with good modding communities is simply the cheaper option.

5 thoughts on “This is why people still play/mod Fallout and Skyrim.”

  1. I’ve just read that there is a Wordle-like minigame in this… thing and it makes my negative interest in the game even lower. (Wordle makes me itch and the pretentious “I got a great score” posts make me angry, except for one contrarian who rubs my face in it, but in a funny way.)

    Imagine what a game it could have been, playing actual Han Solo? I know, impossible in modern gaming.

  2. Literally just spent $20 for a used Fallout New Vegas disk for xbox 360 .. which I also bought used…

    I have no problem buying new… but cinema and gaming appear to be stuck in another “see the shiny effects! (ignore the utter lack of plot)” cycle.

    Seriously, what has caused Hollywood and whatever became of Bethesda to forget that their first job is… storytelling?

    Mew

  3. Pretty amazing the way all those companies influenced by Sweet Baby Inc seem to be in trouble. 🙂

    1. While “diversity consultants” are a blight, they’re more a symptom than a cause.

      If you’re hiring outsiders to create your characters and story, you obviously don’t value either.

      And if your gameplay is recycled on top of that, what the hell are you even doing?

      1. Milking the completists… which is, like I said, a recurring problem in industries that are supposed to be about storytelling….

        Mew

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