jdreyer wrote on Feb 27, 2012, 20:38:

Beamer wrote on Feb 27, 2012, 16:33:

Kajetan wrote on Feb 27, 2012, 15:38:

jdreyer wrote on Feb 27, 2012, 15:22:
*Sigh*

I'd pay full price for a single player 20 hour mech campaign. Looks like I won't get it from Hawken.

No, you wont. F2P and "downloadable content" and "virtual goods" are teh new shit. Ten years ago, Hawken might have become funding for a full blown MMO, because that was "teh new shit" then.

If you want a pure single player mech game, wait for a crowdfunding project which will cover that. If your game is financed through "traditional" investors, you loose all control, you have to make the game the investors want. And investors want always teh new shit, because thats "good".

Are you intentionally misspelling "the" because you're referencing ten years ago and intentionally looking stupid in such ways was cool back then? You should probably stop, it no longer looks ironic or interesting.

In any case, Hawken announced they were f2p long before they got any funding. Was it an attempt to get funding? Maybe, but you can't really blame investors when the decision was made before they were even approached.

Yo Beam, whether or not the decision was made before or after the investors got involved is irrelevant: F2P is trending up and making money, so everyone jumping on the bandwagon. Lately SP has been treated as either something to throw on to a MP player game as a bullet point (BF3, COD) or a way to play multiplayer games by yourself (Rift, SWTOR).

Hopefully the success of Skyrim, ME3, Bioshock Infinite, and other story-driven, single player games will inspire someone to make a story driven, simulator-style mech game with an economic component.