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| From | Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action |
| Subject | Re: It's Hard To Blame Them... |
| Date | 2024-10-31 17:31 -0700 |
| Organization | i2pn2 (i2pn.org) |
| Message-ID | <763c317b8f131c7ec004323ec5652ade5b9772b8@i2pn2.org> (permalink) |
| References | <ki3qhj5c64orivs2uhje5bro55b5c2c9j7@4ax.com> <c73rhjp3lgdn74kem41108tv9bc2kunjf7@4ax.com> |
On 10/26/2024 5:49 PM, Xocyll wrote:
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
> entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
> say:
>
>>
>> So, there's some new information from Circana (a market research
>> group; it's okay if you've never heard of them) showing the top-ten
>> selling PC/console games from the last 23 years*. I put a list of the
>> highest-selling games each year below.
>>
>> And, you know, looking at the list, I can't help but think. I give
>> companies like EA and Ubisoft and BlizzaVision a hard-time for
>> constantly putting out uninspired sequels year after year rather than,
>> you know, investing in something new that might challenge gamers more
>> than the same ol' pabulum... but at the same time, it's hard to blame
>> them.
>>
>> People BUY that shit. Happily. Year after year. If you have the choice
>> of pouring your heart and soul (and a lot of money) into a new project
>> that may or may not be accepted by the masses versus some garbage
>> project you can easily hack up without much effort, can you really
>> blame somebody if they go the easy route?
>>
>> Triple-A publishers are a definite scourge on the hobby... but we
>> gamers deserve a lot of the blame too. 12 years Call of Duty was the
>> best selling game! No wonder the industry is in the state it is.
>>
>>
>> 2000 Pokemon Gold/Silver
>> 2001 Madden NFL 2002
>> 2002 Grand Theft Auto Vice City
>> 2003 Madden NFL 2004
>> 2004 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
>> 2005 Madden NFL 2006
>> 2006 Madden NFL 07
>> 2007 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
>> 2008 Rock Band
>> 2009 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
>> 2010 Call of Duty: Black Ops
>> 2011 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
>> 2012 Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
>> 2013 Grand Theft Auto V
>> 2014 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
>> 2015 Call of Duty: Black Ops III
>> 2016 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
>> 2017 Call of Duty: WWII
>> 2018 Red Dead Redemption
>> 2019 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
>> 2020 Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War
>> 2021 Call of Duty: Vanguard
>> 2022 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022)
>> 2023 Hogwart's Legacy
>
> I can happily announce I bought exactly *none* of these games.
>
> Oh wait, older games on list, vice city and san andreas I did buy.
>
> Interesting GTA 4 is not on the list, which since it would not install
> cause of the need for MS's game service, that they fucking cancelled!
>
> GTA5 was never even an option.
>
> Never even thought about buying any of the Call of Shitty games.
I sort of bought GTA V and RDR as I bought a used XBox 360 that had them
among other games as a bundle. Didn't finish either though.
The rest nah.
That's a lot of CoD.
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