felixsylvaris;n9858131 said:
There are rumours about Game as Service with Cyberpunk.
Let me put it that way, i do not judge, maybe will not buy game, but do not take it personal. There is strong trend for PvE online coop shooter. Like Destiny, Warframe, Anthem. People want to play that. There is no wrong in making games for large audience.
If you want to jump on the train and have own Destiny, some players want that.
It would be great to have single player story experience of some form at some point. Maybe try 2in1. With good SP story, and if you want co-op or pvp multiplayer city in addition and after... maybe that is the way to go.
But i must see the advantage of having stream of cash and ability to expand game over years.
Try to avoid P2W and gambling. It is hard to like the game which cheats you.
If the game is good players will buy fancy hat (cosmetics) just to support game.
It has been a proven fact that if you release a video game for sale if it's a video game that is 100% singleplayer only or has both singleplayer and multiplayer and you release content for free like new quests, new armor, new dungeons, new NPC's, new weapons, new vehicles, etc for free even in multiplayer sales will increase of getting copies sold to more people.
Microtransactions will just make a lot of people actually never purchase your video games ever again.
Look at ZeniMax Media Inc., Bethesda Softworks, and Bethesda Game Studios. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the last video game I have ever purchased from them on 11.11.11 when they released it for sale for PC on Steam. Now that ZeniMax Media Inc., Bethesda Softworks, and Bethesda Game Studios have released the Creation Club selling microtransactions for 100% singleplayer only video games I do not think I will ever purchase The Elder Scrolls VI, I sure as heck will not be purchasing Fallout 5 I still have not purchased Fallout 4 to this day today still.
The question is does CD Projekt RED want to lose me as a customer for five years straight? Like ZeniMax Media Inc., Bethesda Softworks, and Bethesda Game Studios have so far? What about for ten years? Well I don't think CD Projekt RED will lose me as a customer permanently because I purchase PC versions of video games sold on PC from gog.com, which CD Projekt RED owns.
I am very disappointed CD Projekt RED and gog.com allowed GWENT: The Witcher card video game to be released on gog.com. Instead of selling GWENT: The Witcher card video game on gog.com for something like $20 dollars (USD) and have absolutely no microtransactions.
What is making me very happy right now is that the Belgium government is investigating gambling with loot boxes in video games and from what I read GWENT: The Witcher card video game has kegs you can purchase which has random cards in them. If the Belgium government considers GWENT: The Witcher card video game illegal or whatver because of gambling. CD Projekt RED will have no choice but to remove the kegs from GWENT: The Witcher card video game and maybe sell GWENT: The Witcher card video game for like $30 dollars (USD) or so and hopefully have absolutely no microtransactions.
The only people who spend hundreds of dollars (USD) or thousands of dollars (USD) on mcirotransactions are the very wealthy people and the very rich people. There's a lady in Japan I read about like two years ago who spent $30,000 dollars (USD) on that Candy Crush mobile smart phone video game. Most of us though are not walking money bags we don't have a lot of money to just spend and spend on microtransactions in video games.
I just want CD Projekt RED to develop AAA video games and release them for sale for $50 dollars (USD) or $60 dollars (USD) and then release small content like new armor, new, dungeons, new NPC's, new, quests, new weapons, etc FOR FREE like they did with the sixteen DLC's for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and then develop and release expansion packs like they did for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine.
Otherwise if CD Projekt RED and gog.com start adding microtransactions to the video games that they sell I will be done permanently purchasing video games from them ever again. I stopped purchasing PC versions of video games from Steam in 2012 as well.
I will be done purchasing video games for good and possibly quitting my favorite hobby which I have done for over twenty one years so far.