this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
217 points (97.0% liked)

Games

38883 readers
1014 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Rules

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

Authorized Regular Threads

Related communities

Video games

Generic

Help and suggestions

Platform specific

Game specific

Language specific

Others

PM a mod to add your own

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't sequels actually cause new audiences to show up, who then go back and play the first game?

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exactly this; for a video game developer to claim otherwise is incomprehensible, and likely is just doublespeak to mask something

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Or they're morons who are only familiar with the Games As Service model and completely forgot that's not the only type of game they sell.