Say what you will, but last of us 1 factions was one of my all time favorite mp games. Really sad to see this cancelled

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    11 months ago

    Absolutely, but that’s not how this works anymore and today, the expectation with every multiplayer game and even multiplayer mode is that it’s live-service. The industry has replaced the “natural” skill progression of players with dangling the carrot of permanent (and in my opinion mostly pointless) unlockables in front of their faces at all times.

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      11 months ago

      I think some of it is the audience’s fault. I have heard many friends complaining about multiplayer games being “dead” or “abandoned” because there’s no new content and I’m like “I’m pretty satisfied, it doesn’t need anything else”. If there’s enough people playing for matchmaking, I’m good.

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      11 months ago

      Let’s change that expectation. Baldur’s Gate 3 won best multiplayer at the Game Awards, and it’s not a live service. In a talk with some friends, I realized how antagonistic the relationship between players and developers always ended up as well when the developers make more money with more “engagement”. Diablo IV will get fun builds nerfed into the ground; Baldur’s Gate 3 will let them rock, but only in the pre-existing difficulty levels before they add in extra challenge modes for fun. That’s the difference.

      Meanwhile, Agent Under Fire multiplayer for the Gamecube is more fun than any live service FPS I’ve ever played. It certainly didn’t require years of support to be that fun, and you only need one other person to play it with, but preferably 3. Very easily doable regardless of how many people are in matchmaking.