Tag: AAA
Far Cry 5 – Deep Fried Testicle Festival (Jimpressions)
Ten Worst Types Of DLC In History (The Jimquisition)
The Deadly Spiral Of Live Services (The Jimquisition)
Games Should Not Cost $60 Anymore (The Jimquisition)
There is a constant problem plaguing the game industry, if its spokespeople are to be believed. Games cost $60, and that price doesn’t work anymore! Weirdly enough, The Jimquisition agrees with this assessment. “AAA” games should indeed not cost $60 anymore, and they most certainly have outgrown it.
Warframe Devs Shame ‘AAA’ Industry, Actually Ask Players What They Want
EA Proposes Unfair Matchmaking To Raise ‘Player Engagement’ & Monetization
Activision Patents Microtransaction-Based Matchmaking
Full patent page here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=9789406.PN.&OS=PN/9789406&RS=PN/9789406 After receiving loads of emails about this, I woke up ready to give this patent a good going over. While patents never guarantee real-life implementation, they can be reflective of a business, and boy does this one – a matchmaking system based on selling microtransactions…