"the game will simply stop running in a few months"
gamesindustry.biz
gamesindustry.biz
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Tekken series boss Katsuhiro Harada says rising development costs have necessitated the inclusion of microtransactions in the series' latest outing
The comment comes from Harada, who was responding to a social media user lamenting the inclusion of items such as paid costumes in the fighter.
"If we simply do nothing as he suggests, the game will simply stop running in a few months…He wants us to stop economic activity and stop updating and supporting the game."
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In fact I think games are much cheaper to make than they used to be. The number of great games made by a single person or a small team would have been almost impossible to do a few decades ago. Now if you want top of the line graphics and the rest of the fluff AAA games insist on, then he's right.
Mordhau (unreal engine 4) is insanely ambitious and well-crafted for a 10-person dev team (according to their site).
I think the cheap ones aren't. 40 yrs ago you could do it for just the cost of a computer and your time.
> The number of great games made by a single person or a small team would have been almost impossible to do a few decades ago
But before that, it was the norm.
I agree the expensive ones certainly are more expensive.