http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/03/08 All I can think of when I read it is Diablo III.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/03/08 All I can think of when I read it is Diablo III.
Not really, it reminds me of most FTP games out there today.
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I think it's aimed at Sim City
I think it's aimed at any "social" experience gaming with a cash shop.
If there's one thing World of Warcraft players hate more than people who don't play, it's people that do play but not as much as them.
Diablo 3? Nope, cause barring the server issues (which were launch issues almost exclusively), those other two parts either are minimal (see: Notification of actual achievement completion by friends) or not even required (see: Auction House, be it Gold or RM).
Aiming it at the mobile phone game market, or any other microtransaction F2P game.... FAR more accurate.
Games are not necessarily "easier" today. You are just a better player.
It takes more now to impress many gamers than it did 2-5 years ago, because so much has already been seen and done.
Many players expect to be wow'd with every release of a beloved franchise.
These are generally NOT the fault of the developers, but the fault of many players over-hyping and/or setting expectations too high.
Nope. Diablo III doesn't require external gold purchases to progress in the game.
Sadly, its not about diablo. That's how any modern game looks like.
Even more, that's how all the internet looks like nowadays. And it's just a beginning.
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The whole thing is about EA's mobile Tetris game, but also applies to multiple other games. The middle one itself is just literally about EA Tetris; It's hooked up to social media services and... you can choose to pay for a subscription... to play Tetris against your friend's scores. Which makes me want to shoot myself in the face, just thinking about it.
EA Relaunches Tetris on IOS with a $30 a year subscription fee. Really.
And the last panel broadly makes fun of the whole concept of buying things to improve single player gameplay. Something that EA is driving home really hard lately (see Dead Space 3).