skyfire Posted January 27, 2022 Posted January 27, 2022 Sony currently does not seem to have motive on jumping into web and mobile based games I suppose but yeah you never know.
Heatman Posted January 27, 2022 Posted January 27, 2022 (edited) On 1/21/2022 at 11:55 PM, Empire said: Give it time and you will see that Sony will buy another big large or small company. I mean SOny always have something up there feet. But then again Sony aren't big like what Microsoft has become. From the way that Microsoft has been going to try and monopolize the gaming brand, I think that EA and some other big companies would fold their hands for too long. Edited January 27, 2022 by Heatman
skyfire Posted January 28, 2022 Posted January 28, 2022 Some of the times selling to big company and exiting is also good for the small brands because taking on giants is often unnecessary churn.
Heatman Posted January 28, 2022 Posted January 28, 2022 On 1/27/2022 at 7:31 AM, skyfire said: Sony currently does not seem to have motive on jumping into web and mobile based games I suppose but yeah you never know. Yeah exactly, for now it's all Microsoft and they aren't slowing down with buying up so many publishers.
killamch89 Posted January 28, 2022 Posted January 28, 2022 My thinking is that Take-two wants to gain more of a foothold in mobile gaming as they can put all their greedy monetization practices in and nobody will complain because the mobile gaming industry is a cesspool. Heatman 1
skyfire Posted January 29, 2022 Posted January 29, 2022 Yes that seems to be the case because a lot of people from asia are the customers. As maximum asian and the african market is in mobile and not on console.
Heatman Posted January 30, 2022 Posted January 30, 2022 On 1/28/2022 at 3:11 PM, killamch89 said: My thinking is that Take-two wants to gain more of a foothold in mobile gaming as they can put all their greedy monetization practices in and nobody will complain because the mobile gaming industry is a cesspool. Seriously, that's why I moving on from mobile gaming for a while now because the project seems to be all about the money now.
killamch89 Posted January 30, 2022 Posted January 30, 2022 6 hours ago, Heatman said: Seriously, that's why I moving on from mobile gaming for a while now because the project seems to be all about the money now. Majority of the mobile games have way worse predatory practices than even the triple A companies and get away with it and that's why those big companies want to join the fray.
skyfire Posted January 31, 2022 Posted January 31, 2022 I have to agree, there is a term called gacha among SEA community for this type of the practices, it's "pay to play" type like we used to have in the arcade times.
Heatman Posted January 31, 2022 Posted January 31, 2022 16 hours ago, killamch89 said: Majority of the mobile games have way worse predatory practices than even the triple A companies and get away with it and that's why those big companies want to join the fray. Exactly, I have had my own fair share of it especially when some of the games are free to play but rigged with tons of microtransactions.
Boblee Posted February 9, 2022 Posted February 9, 2022 Everyone is now in the buying business since Microsoft announced they had acquired Activision. Sony too have made their own moves and Take Two at their own. It's never going to end there.
Heatman Posted February 10, 2022 Posted February 10, 2022 So, why didn't any of them make all these purchases until Microsoft announced their purchase of Activision? 🙄
Boblee Posted February 10, 2022 Posted February 10, 2022 On 1/30/2022 at 6:10 PM, killamch89 said: Majority of the mobile games have way worse predatory practices than even the triple A companies and get away with it and that's why those big companies want to join the fray. This is actually true and the funny aspect of it is that most gamers on mobile phones don't really seem to worry too much about those practices like we do with AAA companies.
