Bethesda ha really rough year despite releasing 3 great games and great stand alone DLC.
Dishonored 2 was first one that had lower sales (lack of marketing and performance issues on launch didn't help) despite being amazing game that i spent playing for 34 hours and enjoying every single moment playing it.
Next one was Prey. That game had even worse launch than Dishonored (also lack of marketing, no review codes and performance issues on consoles). Also amazing game that i am now playing and i already spent 25 hours in it and i still have many things to do.
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider stand-alone release is another example of great experience that failed to sell.
And latest one that probably under-performed is The Evil Within 2 (some will say that is too early for SteamSpy numbers but a bit above 50K after 3 days for AAA game is really looking bad). And from reviews and people who played it and still are playing it game is great.
Last release for this year from Bethesda is Wolfenstein The New Colossus and despite having big potential to sell way better than previous ones i have feeling that it will be last classic SP only game from Bethesda we will see.
As a person who loves SP only games an immersive sims it is hard to watch those games flop one by one. And i think that Bethesda is big cause of that. Their marketing is almost non-existent and their no review codes policy is hurting their games and developers really bad. And they are keep doing that over and over again. I don't want to see those game franchises die but is there anything that we could do? Is there a future for those kind of games in todays GaaS oriented market?
Dishonored 2 was first one that had lower sales (lack of marketing and performance issues on launch didn't help) despite being amazing game that i spent playing for 34 hours and enjoying every single moment playing it.
Next one was Prey. That game had even worse launch than Dishonored (also lack of marketing, no review codes and performance issues on consoles). Also amazing game that i am now playing and i already spent 25 hours in it and i still have many things to do.
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider stand-alone release is another example of great experience that failed to sell.
And latest one that probably under-performed is The Evil Within 2 (some will say that is too early for SteamSpy numbers but a bit above 50K after 3 days for AAA game is really looking bad). And from reviews and people who played it and still are playing it game is great.
Last release for this year from Bethesda is Wolfenstein The New Colossus and despite having big potential to sell way better than previous ones i have feeling that it will be last classic SP only game from Bethesda we will see.
As a person who loves SP only games an immersive sims it is hard to watch those games flop one by one. And i think that Bethesda is big cause of that. Their marketing is almost non-existent and their no review codes policy is hurting their games and developers really bad. And they are keep doing that over and over again. I don't want to see those game franchises die but is there anything that we could do? Is there a future for those kind of games in todays GaaS oriented market?