GamesIndustry International has an excerpt from their
in-depth interview with Blizzard's Rob Pardo where the
World of Warcraft lead designer expresses skepticism about the "endangered species" of AAA single-player games. "I don't see there being a great business model for it these days. It's really sad, there's just a lot of elements out there that conspire to make those games difficult to make now," he says. "Between pirating or the ability for people to rent games, it's hard for publishers to pour millions and millions of dollars into a game and not necessarily see the return they need to make those budgets realistic."
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Just because Blizzard isn't capable of making a single player game that is a success doesn't mean all games have to be multiplayer. Looks like the geniuses at Blizzard learned nothing from the Diablo 3 fiasco. Enjoy milking WOW until it dies.
The new gaming model is here, and its good. Kickstarter is looking like the best way for consumers to get what they want to play. More profit for good developers. Screw the gaming industry geniuses that want everything to be a multiplayer, real time, FPS, free to play, DLC driven, DRM'd, with four hours of playing time game. |
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