Kotaku Slammed For Awful Take On "Grim" State Of Single Player Games After Immortals Of Aveum Flop

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Kotaku had a terrible take? I'm shocked

9/10 multiplayer games: dead within half a year One AAA singleplayer game: fails Kotaku: “well well well…”

40 millions in marketing and distribution ? Someone silently filled up their bank account, because I didn't see anything about this game until people started talking about how much of a flop it was.

The problem with Immortals of Aveum was that it was published by EA and EA has lost trust with tons of people so people just dont buy their games anymore unless they know its decent. I know for a fact I dont even look at EA games anymore unless it gives me a reason to. The fact that this article says the same thing EA said before and is written about a EA game sounds like EA payed for this article to be written

Suicide Squad proves how people wanted a single player story over a live service looter shooter.

If you have 40 million in advertising and barely anyone has heard of it, I suspect someone decided to pocket the budget in the form of arbitrary expenses

After reading that article, it's shocking to me how overlooked the video game industry's current elephant in the room is; if the game is fun, the game will sell. Tomorrow, I could start working on the most groundbreaking visually realistic game, that has a music score done by Hans Zimmer, and have a voice cast including David Hayter, Jennifer Hale and James Earl Jones, but if the plot of the game is a day in the life of a forensic accountant for a box factory, then I'm fairly confident that it will be overlooked.

They are desperate for ad revenue. They write about the health benefits of eating shit if it got clicks.

All GOTY candidates for 2023: All primarily single-player games *one subpar single-player fps game is released a few months later that everyone forgot about* Kotaku: SiNgLe-PlAyEr GaMeS aRe DeAd

Proof that game journalism companies will NEVER take the player's side over the sponsors, they will defend them to the death.

Kotaku could have just said it is hard to launch a new IP in the current super saturated market where the excessive number of choices leads people to try sticking with what they already know instead of taking a risk.

40M for marketing, but almost no one heard of? Someone's pockets are filled to the brim.

The level of effort required to locate this game that got 100% obscured, convince everyone it was worth an article, dodging in your brain any memory that GOTY was basically only single player games, and then doing the mental gymnasics to get to this article conclusion… I mean, it’s a special kind of dumb, it needs a new word to describe it. It’s literally being so dumb that you do a full mental circle, ascend to a superior intelligence and then you choose the dumbest idea you get.

Kotaku: Bought and paid for by the people who want to make Live Service your favorite new thing.

They intended for it to fail so that EA can go and say "Look see, no one wants single player games." and they'll lean full tilt into live service crap.

If gaming was exclusively online, and live service, I’d quit gaming entirely. Almost have anyway due to the state of the industry

Reminder that Kotaku wrote an article about how the MacBook trackpad is the best game controller of all time 😂

It's not single player games that are the issue. It's companies shoving any possible monetization in our faces. When you're mainly focused on profit rather than quality, the game itself is bound to be bad.

This is nothing new, the industry has been trying to convince us that we only want multi-player games for many years because their scummy practices work better with multi-player. More opportunities to nickel-and-dime the players.