Yeah reading the end of the article it seems Net Ease is moving a lot of their overseas development back home toward China. It makes sense. From an American perspective we’ve been told for years by the news that our education system is lagging behind foreign countries. Why pay more when you can get better results domestically. I mean it sucks for the six contractors who were let go, but this is a multifaceted global problem.
It was way to expensive and came out way to close to the original game. The characters should be dramatically cheaper and the season pass should include them and story content. WB also was charging for fatalities. The game was honestly great but the monitization and FoMo monthly seasons caused me to give up on it.
I don’t 100% agree with prime access being pay to win. It’s mostly pay to skip, you can use your platinum to buy pieces from other players for normally far less than the frame and weapons in access as well. I spent 5 bucks to get a protea prime from a clan mate knowing I wouldn’t have time to grind her and had tons of platinum (premium currency) from other trades with players. And I’m really bad at trading with players.
I’m so disappointed with the monitization in mk1. The game is great I did buy at launch because i was hyped for story mode, and 11 had so much single player content. 1 not so much. I do not mind season passes if they are going to support the game, however a season pass plus paid fatalities and cosmetics is ridiculous and the current state of the game is so lacking.
Probably my only gaming regret of the year so far was thinking this game would live up to the last 3.
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given a huge part of the story is literally aliens either you didn’t play the game or think aliens belong in medieval fantasy.