• Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Sony really managed to erase one of their best-selling games in less than 3 days, for literally no potential gain at all. All risk, no reward: what a fuckin’ business strategy

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      Suits only think in green, and assume “consumers” do only that: consume.

      I’ve been waiting 20 years for people to realize it, and that’s only because I’m young compared to others who have realized what capitalism is: Institutionalized greed.

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        I mean, Palworld suffered from the exact opposite problem, where the game received basically no post-launch content. So once players burned through the main game, there was very little reason to keep playing.

        This just goes to show that support needs to both exist and be something players agree with.

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          Space Engineers also desperately needs some kind of goal.

          I was doing 6 hour sessions on that game no problem until I got to the moon, at which point the game suddenly felt so pointless, and my ship hasn’t moved.

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          Have they dropped it or it’s taking a while to get more content?

          I’m not opposed to trying it one day, once it has some dev time behind. Right now I heard end game isn’t there yet.

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            They’re slowly building it up, patching bugs and recently (in the last 30 days?) released a few new pals

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            I’ve been tracking continued interest partially based on when updates are dropped and the interest in those updates.

            It’s been pretty consistent tbh

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        7 months ago

        Sony’s website said that PSN account linking would be optional, and they only changed the website to saying it’s required yesterday (May 3rd)