Thread 714798353

>create a iconic mech game
>Perfect balance of gundam and battletech style
>Has a cool campaign and online mode
>Gameplay is smooth as butter
>Million ways to make money from it like selling kits
>abandon it forever and make a shitty hero battleroyal
Why are gaming companies so so retarded?

Because it's far too risky to take a swing at the king and miss.
Remember, it's suits and shareholders deciding what games get made, not the developers and certainly not the actual gamers.

because everyone who makes games in the mecha genre is terminally fucking stupid and can't into basic common sense with marketing and sales strategy

Titanfall 2 and Armored Core 6 have everything to be massive games people could be talking about a lot but they're lead by people who don't want to do that because Fortnite makes more moeny

>>714799649
>everyone who makes games in the mecha genre
The Titanfall games were made by former Infinity Ward devs though. Respawn has always been made up of FPS devs. Titanfall isn't a "mech game" like AC6, it's a game with rideable mechs in it.

>>714799989
it's a mecha game made by mecha nerds who liked gundam and armored core.

>>714799989
mecha is a theme, not a game genre
Armored Core 6 is a mecha action game
Titanfall 2 is a mecha action FPS game
unless your definition of mecha as a game genre is "dogshit controls and story", then yeah, both of those don't fit.

>Release game in the month between Battlefield and COD

OMG why did our game sell like shit?!?!?!?

>>714798353 (OP)
When is TitanTits3?

here's your titanfall 3 bwo
tetrastudios.itch.io/project-shatterpoint

>>714801727
cancelled, because EA hates my money not that I wouldn't have pirated it

Man i want titanfall3 to be just frontier mode but bigger and better
Pvp sucks ass

>>714798353 (OP)
>Why are gaming companies so so retarded?
Apex Legends prints money for Respawn/EA. TF2 is one of my favourite games of all time, but I can't really fault Respawn for jumping on the live service bandwagon with the rest of the industry. Why spend 100 million producing a game that makes 1 sale per consumer when you can make a battle pass that can be milked indefinitely?
Titanfall 2 will probably be the last game of its kind, so it's cool that a genre that was known for notoriously shit-tier single player went out on such an uncharacteristic high note

>>714798353 (OP)
>>abandon it forever and make a shitty hero battleroyal
Because it had poor player interest and very poor player retention. Why massively support a game that most players just play for 5h and then drop afterwards?

>>714798353 (OP)
>actually cool single player campaign
>doesn't overstay its welcome
>cutscenes are kept to an absolute minimum, most of the story happens during gameplay
>looks better graphically than most games today
I can't believe Titanfall 2 and DOOM released in the same year.

>>714798353 (OP)
>game has a poor launch because Respawn is retarded
>game does badly in terms of sales numbers
>goes does badly in terms of how quickly the players move on after beating the campaign
>devs say "ok since there is very little interest, there's no point in treating this like a golden goose"
>players go "OMG NOOOO REEEEE WHY ARE YOU NOT SUPPORTING THIS GAME TO THE MAX WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM???????????"
Same shit as Battlefront 2 lol.

>>714803312
honestly the poor player retention is a blessing in disguise for this game's online if you're still interested in playing it. It's noticeably less sweaty compared to every other FPS, probably because few people are grinding it every day so it's mostly casuals just dipping in and out for a game or two. It makes sense, there's no esports/twitch viewership to chase in this game

>>714798353 (OP)
I sincerely believe if this series didn't have such a terrible generic name it could have been big

I mean gundam is also very niche if you look at big picture but they can easily make millions just from their shitty kits
EA could've done the same but they are retarded who always look for quick instant profit

>>714798353 (OP)
why are you retarded enough to expect anything else from EA. You have the corpses of Dead Space, Army of Two, the Alice games, etc rotting right there as proof of how prone they are to botching and killing good IPs for no reason.