The current AAA development cycle was never sustainable.This isn't the movie industry where Marvel can offset the $10 ticket price by selling 150 million tickets, on top of all the outside merchandisi...

The loot box is still around. It's just been rebranded as the battle pass.

The problem isn't that the game market is volatile. It's games now to so incredibly long to make that the market will likely change before they even release. You could sit down today and design the pe...

"Don't overload the players in the starter zone" is one of the biggest lessons I wish more open world game developers would learn. Players can, and will consume every bit of available content, especia...

In this particular case, I'm with Nintendo. While normally emulators live in that legal grey area between piracy and "personal software backups", in this case we're talking about a game that hadn't ev...

I have no problem with fad games as a concept. Sell a super gimmicky new idea (Pokemon with guns!) guaranteed to make every streamer and all their followers play it regardless of how good your actual ...

While stupid, I gueeeeeeeess I get it? At some point "boomer" stopped referring to the actual Baby Boom generation and became general slang for "anyone or anything older than me that feels 'old fashio...

AI definitely has its place in game development. Just not in the super general "let the game create itself on the fly based on player actions" sort of way the tech CEOs like to talk. There may be a ti...

I have to wonder how sustainable services like Gamepass are, and how good a deal they really are for developers. It probably makes sense for small, indie games that get an upfront payment from MS and ...

Cataclysm was fine. Hardly the best expansion, but not terrible either. Really, its biggest problem was that Wrath was basically an impossible act to follow. Anything they released next would have be...

@teshammutna said:Just when you think blizzard couldn't go any lower Yeah. The nerve of those guys, encouraging people to donate blood.

Nintendo standing on its own is better for gaming as a whole.Sony and MS are pushing technology forward. That's important, but Nintendo is weird and innovative and that's important too. Yeah, Nintendo...

What? IIRC, mounts (and minion) became collectable in 3.0 at the start of Wrath. Did classic not do that?And the dungeon finder was also first added in the back half of Wrath (3.3 with ToC, I think?) ...

Some of it is the nature of sequels. There is a very common, but mistaken notion that a sequel has to be bigger, better, and just plain more in every way. Unfortunately that usually just leads to need...

I cannot for the life of me imagine how someone convinced a room full of Discord devs that this was a good idea. From the minute it was announced we all saw these issues coming.

@paperwarior17 said:Huh. That'll be different. May leave a lot of users with arbitrary numbers at the end of their names regardless.Right? What will actually change here? Now instead of being Genericn...

@ThePlantain: That's an inherent issue for sequels in general. A lot of the novelty is gone. Forbidden West is big and new, but it's not THAT different from the original.

As previously reported, some fans have noticed that to unlock specific items, they'll need to play for a full year.Seasonly items that are only available once a year have been in the game since launch...

Isn't that just Mythic+? Why not just call it Mythic+?

@Barighm: While you can rightfully call "EA bullshit" on a lot of things, this isn't one of them. It isn't worth anyone's time of money to keep ancient servers running for the tiny handful of people s...