Zero Harpuia
WarRavens
League of Infamy
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Posted - 2013.07.20 18:58:00 -
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Lets look at the track record, shall we?
Bungie's thingy has gotten alot of hate for their bullshit marketing such as 'preorder our preorder, we're Bungie so we are good for it', trailers full of nothing but environments (HOW long did it take to learn it was a shooter?).
PS2 is a massive failure or a massive success, depending on how you look at it. Hackers run rampant across the game, glitching into the safezone HQs, aimbotting crossmap, and killing the game at its playerbase, but the game still has huge worlds and (theoretically) balanced yet non-identical sides. Either way it's been through some **** and I doubt it'll be attached to the current PC servers thanks in part to the hackers.
BF4. Two words. Electronic Arts. Many people won't buy it because of that alone, many more will be put off by whatever it is that EA does to earn it's title as the Worst Company in America, and chances are they won't add anything too major to the game over BF3 beyond the standard 'bigger, more, better, shinier', so if people didn't like BF3, they won't like BF4.
DUST has had major issues and major successes, and is made by one of the most resilient companies outside of Nintendo in the 'Won't Pack This Sh*t In' department, operating a successful MMO for years. They will constantly get support from EVE players, yet meet resistance from those asame players when merging does happen. They will attract players who wish to be part of this grand world, but scare off those who think they need to play EVE to play DUST. The constant updates will keep the game fresh, but they will also cause certain players to leave if their style gets nerfed or if they dislike the constantly changing dynamics.
All in all, all of these games have their own niche, and their own playerbase.
Destiny will get all of the Halo guys cuz Bungie, it could be a piece of dried cardboard in disk shape and it'll sell enough by Bungie being on the label to make a huge profit before anyone finds out.
PS2 will have to seperate the servers, but the constant, non-instanced world will entice FAR different players than those who play instanced FPS like CoD, DUST, BF, or MAG.
BF4 will get all the BF3 guys. If you didn't like it before you won't like it now.
DUST will get EVE players and those interested in the concept, in the SciFi aspects, and the MAG players, as well as a constant trickle of 'Oh lookit this free thing' players. |