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Re: Single Player FTW

From	Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject	Re: Single Player FTW
Date	2024-10-11 18:12 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 10/11/2024 8:19 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:57:08 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 09/10/2024 04:16, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>> Still, for years publishers parroted the line that multiplayer was the
>>> only way to profitablity, and strictly single-player games (or even
>>> single-player modes) were often given short-shrift. There have been
>>> numerous reports of attempts by developers to push forward
>>> single-player games that have been shot down by publishers, who told
>>> the devs that single-player games 'just don't sell'.  And why not?
>>> Multiplayer games sold tremendously well, and you could attach all
>>> sorts of live-service features onto the games to rake in even more
>>> money
>>
>> I'm not sure it's that they don't sell but instead the really big bucks
>> are to be had in multiple-player games that are far more amenable to
>> having MTX shoved in them providing a healthy income stream possibly for
>> years to come.
>>
> 
> 
> Except the study showed that you _aren't_ necessarily promised massive
> revenue just because you make a multiplayer game. Or rather, it isn't
> simply the fact that the game is multiplayer that guarantees that
> money. It's that wildly unpredictible, "is it a good/popular game"
> factor that brings in the big bugs.

But we don't want bugs at all!!!

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dirty old man.

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Single Player FTW Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-08 23:16 -0400
  Re: Single Player FTW Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2024-10-09 10:34 -0400
  Re: Single Player FTW Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> - 2024-10-09 13:13 -0400
    Re: Single Player FTW Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-09 17:28 -0400
      Re: Single Player FTW Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-10-09 18:07 -0700
      Re: Single Player FTW Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> - 2024-10-13 11:16 -0400
  Re: Single Player FTW Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> - 2024-10-09 19:57 -0700
  Re: Single Player FTW Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> - 2024-10-10 19:57 -0400
    Re: Single Player FTW JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-10-11 08:57 +0100
      Re: Single Player FTW Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-10-11 07:41 -0700
        Re: Single Player FTW Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> - 2024-10-11 12:01 -0400
          Re: Single Player FTW Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-10-11 18:11 -0700
            Re: Single Player FTW Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> - 2024-10-11 21:13 -0400
  Re: Single Player FTW JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-10-11 08:57 +0100
    Re: Single Player FTW Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-11 11:19 -0400
      Re: Single Player FTW Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-10-11 18:12 -0700
        Re: Single Player FTW Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> - 2024-10-11 22:24 -0400
        Re: Single Player FTW ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-10-12 02:24 +0000
          Re: Single Player FTW Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> - 2024-10-11 22:26 -0400
            Re: Single Player FTW ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-10-12 02:27 +0000
              Re: Single Player FTW Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> - 2024-10-11 22:30 -0400
          Re: Single Player FTW Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-10-12 09:56 -0700
          Re: Single Player FTW candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-10-15 01:00 +0000
            Re: Single Player FTW ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-10-16 02:29 +0000
              Re: Single Player FTW Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-10-15 21:27 -0700
              Re: Single Player FTW candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-10-18 20:30 +0000
      Re: Single Player FTW JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-10-13 08:17 +0100

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