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Transformers: Reactivate (console MMO)
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This makes me think of Machine Wars and Transtech. Some images, some toys, a little bit of story....but nothing in the end. To be completely honest, I'm not upset about the toy line dying with it, I didn't think they were that different of models from previous versions for me to collect.
Nope, gotta chase that live service, season pass, money!
After the collapse of Concord (among NUMEROUS other live service type games) and the success of single player games like Robocop and Baldur's Gate, it still surprises me to see companies continue to chase the live service model.
Games take a long time to develop. What makes sense when they start making games may not make sense when it finally comes out 5 years later.
I'm actually more interested in the toys because they represent this forever unknown thing. This game might have been totally forgettable if they ever made it, but we'll never know.
Darth_Prime compared the toyline to Machine Wars, but Machine Wars got twelve releases. This got a third of that.
BG3 has made around 2 billion since it was released. Fortnite has made 23.5 Billion in the past 5 years, meaning they make about Double BG3's entire gross encome each year. .
Yeah. Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, a live service game for the PS4, is still churning out regular content updates. It was released in 2016. I seriously doubt it's doing Fortnite money, but the damn thing's going on nine years. Must be making someone some consistent coin.
No wonder people chase the model.
No wonder people chase the model.
Yup, it's the same with MMOs.
People are not going to jump ship to a completely new game that's just starting out, they're going to stick with the game(s) they've been actively playing for likely years at this point and people who don't really play these games but wanna give one a shot for the first time are also going to go with the ones that are already proven successes or the ones their friends play.
The market just cannot support tons and tons of these games. You're just gonna have the big ones, the ones that are smaller but still have enough of an audience to keep going, and then that's really it. Anything else will last maybe a year or so at the most.
Video Games - GameSpark News: A Closer Look at the Transformers Game That Might Have Been
Transformers: Reactivate, nee Transformers: Rise, is something of a recent tale of tragedy among fans of robots in disguise. In a post-Transformers: Devastation world, video games that were more than meets the eye felt fewer and further between, and were usually fare such as Transformers...
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So they did do some actual work on this. What happened?
Sounds like a question for Matt McMuscles.
From what I heard the studio had no real leadership and so the people developing the Transformers game had no one to say "ok you've done that part, move on to the next thing."
Instead the developers would get laser focused on doing and redoing completed content to make it "perfect" and in the process burned through all the money.
When they went back to Hasbro to ask for more Hasbro was like "...why?" and here we are.
Sounds like a money lundary issue, but I guess the studio leadership were likely to busy with being idiots or something online and not paying attention to what was being made
There could have been some merit to this approach if they didn't run out of money. Developing and polishing one chunk at a time instead of making a complete beta and then polishing the beta could have been insurance against the executives one day saying "Stop what you're doing and just ship the beta."
Instead we got "Stop what you're doing. We're shipping nothing."
I think you still need someone in charge to go "ok you've polished this part as much as it can, move on."
Otherwise you're just on a treadmill nowhere close to completion burning through cash.
Did this game even have a lead designer?
Led by good vibes, man.