Gaming News So Small It Gets a Second Thread

[hudson]

Remember Super Sprint?

[charlesr]

EDF! EDF!

20 years ago people would have looked at this and thought it impossible to ever run in real time

[briareos_kerensky]

TriggerHeart Exelica (the new one already available on Switch) will appear n Steam this April.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.eurogamer.net/cex-launching-no-fix-no-fee-tech-repair-service-including-for-retro-consoles

[wakka]

lol imagine taking a PC Engine LT to your local CEX for repair

[Nu-Eclipse]

https://www.eurogamer.net/cex-launch...retro-consoles

Talk about CeX being DECADES late on this one!

Ironically enough, this would've been a winner back when they still had their old dedicated London Retro Store on Whitfield Street back in the 1990s.

[CMcK]

I’m going to see if they can overhaul my Vectrex!

[Neon Ignition]

What does a company headed towards it's death but not realising it despite the obvious direction look like?

https://www.eurogamer.net/game-staff-told-to-expect-redundancies-as-most-workers-move-to-zero-hours-contracts

As soon as the remaining dedicated stores go it's GAME over

[Nu-Eclipse]

What does a company headed towards it's death but not realising it despite the obvious direction look like?

https://www.eurogamer.net/game-staff-told-to-expect-redundancies-as-most-workers-move-to-zero-hours-contracts

As soon as the remaining dedicated stores go it's GAME over

We're pretty much nearing this in any case. A lot of GAME stores are pretty much mini concessions in Sports Direct stores.

I would say I'm shocked, but then I remember that Mike Ashley owns GAME now.

[egparadigm]

Pointless shops. Rarely go in due to the lack of retro. If I want soulless I’ll got to Currys.

[nonny]

Our local one is now a small section inside Sports Direct... it's laughably bad. No-one even bothers going in there to browse, just collect.

The next step is they'll be online only and then they'll be gone.

[Lebowski]

Ours is in a sports direct and is 90% toy shop, i still like going in for a browse but am more likely to pick up a cheap transformer than a game these days

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.truetrophies.com/news/foamstars-ps-plus-player-count

Foamstars has lost 95% of its player count

[QualityChimp]

I wonder what the core issue is here?
That's a preposterous drop in player numbers. Is the lure of it being "free" just a front for paywall content?

Or is it just a poor game that's done better elsewhere with a more faithful player base?

Not a fan of GaaS, but I don't revel in the failures of games when you know how hard the team have worked on it.

I was really looking forward to Arc Raiders, which was looking like a cross between EDF and Helldivers as a PVE game, but they've made the decision to make it a free to play pvp or pvpve game, so I fear that will die the same death as Foamstars.

[Neon Ignition]

Reading around it seems like a myriad of issues hit it. Apparently it's terrible solo, low on content, the gameplay loop gets old quick, it struggled to deal with the visual comparisons to the much stronger Splatoon games and I imagine Helldivers 2 then sucked all the air out of the room for any possible word of mouth too.

The trouble with hit GAAS games is there's always a new craze waiting around the corner and rarely does a title break through when something similar is already out, yet companies keep making clones hoping they will break through. It's something you have to be very quick with and at the tip of the spear. When even games like PUBG see their success limited because Fortnite ripped them off so quick their head span, making these titles feels like a bigger risk than making a single player game.