Battlefield 6 looking for the MoDeRn AuDiEnCe

[TRIPLE A ®™]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPBKvdwyAZk

just lol.

I don't even play any BF games but I'm gonna sign up saying I'm a purple haired Puerto Rican "non-binary". Will let you know when I get in.

[Logan]

Yeah I'm sure as hell gonna trust random nobody who pulls out information out of his butt to get...hahha, 20k views only? How cute

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Originally posted by AdahnGorion:

I was under the impression that only kids/teens played those BF games and that the vast majority of them was from the Middle East

not really. shooter has a lot of audience ranges from different ages in general. The appeal is global lol

[The nameless Gamer]

Originally posted by TRIPLE A ®™:

Originally posted by Venom:

A Great Man said:
With Great Wokeness, Comes Great Brokeness

and their studios shutting down one by one each week...you'd think they would learn by now.

oh well, shut down some more. they'll get the message eventually. even bigwig corporations that think they're untouchable.

Those studios are side-gigs at most. FIFA ultimate team cards or however they renamed them after they lost access to the FIFA license carry EA more than all those studios combined.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Originally posted by topiary tom:

Battlefield is going the live service micro transaction route. Nobody wants that. Especially from a Battlefield game. People have been begging them to go back to their roots for a decade now.

I've always wondered if that would work: A shooter game where people have to buy ammo packs with real money.

[tom five]

Originally posted by The nameless Gamer:

Originally posted by topiary tom:

The point is what AAA game publishers see as "games targeted to modern audiences" are actually just live service games that nobody wants.

Battlefield is going the live service micro transaction route. Nobody wants that. Especially from a Battlefield game. People have been begging them to go back to their roots for a decade now.

And their annual sports games are doing just fine. They're raking in more money from them than all other releases combined. They're not live services either, they're worse. People PAY for microtransactions in them and their slate gets wiped every year. And they are paying next year all over again.

They have whales. It doesn't mean the games are doing just fine. Unless maybe you're a shareholder.

[The nameless Gamer]

Originally posted by topiary tom:

Originally posted by The nameless Gamer:

And their annual sports games are doing just fine. They're raking in more money from them than all other releases combined. They're not live services either, they're worse. People PAY for microtransactions in them and their slate gets wiped every year. And they are paying next year all over again.

They have whales. It doesn't mean the games are doing just fine. Unless maybe you're a shareholder.

Their latest installment of EA FC is the 41st most sold game on Steam. And that's just Steam. There are also console sales and the sales on Origin. Sensible spenders among people who play video games are a minority.

[Valfossa]

Originally posted by TGC> The Games Collector:

Originally posted by topiary tom:

Battlefield is going the live service micro transaction route. Nobody wants that. Especially from a Battlefield game. People have been begging them to go back to their roots for a decade now.

I've always wondered if that would work: A shooter game where people have to buy ammo packs with real money.

World of Tanks let's you buy premium (pay to win) ammo, and let's you skip grinding as well.

It's probably similar to that, only you also got to pay for the game on top of it as well.

Yeah...no thanks.

[Xero_Daxter]

What is the definition of “modern audience” anyways?

[Q-T_3.14.exe]

Sometimes I question is "modern audience" a real thing or made up for people to be angry about.
People making up reasons to be angry for no reason at all is nothing new. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[2104WAUDIVER ✝]

This is so silly. There is no "modern audience" btw. Almost all gamers are White/Asian dudes. The only games women play are Candy Crush and stuff like that

[Q-T_3.14.exe]

Originally posted by 2104WAUDIVER ✝:

This is so silly. There is no "modern audience" btw. Almost all gamers are White/Asian dudes. The only games women play are Candy Crush and stuff like that

So every woman I played with in video games was actually a femboy? That is pretty cool.

[The nameless Gamer]

Originally posted by Q-T_3.14.exe:

Sometimes I question is "modern audience" a real thing or made up for people to be angry about.
People making up reasons to be angry for no reason at all is nothing new. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

It's all about how the words are used. Back when my age group was the "modern audience", articles were written about how video games "rot our brains". Now it's the former audience getting older and less and less able to accept the usual shift between generations. "I used to be with it , then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you." (Abe Simpson) Well, it's our turn. What's it is weird and scary to us.

[Tazor]

And I thought Battlefield V was bad with the Japanese women, old German dudes wearing parade uniforms from the first world war and American swaggers with greased hair and sunglasses.

No way those people would be allowed anywhere near the frontline. Especially dressed like that.

[tom five]

Originally posted by The nameless Gamer:

Originally posted by topiary tom:

They have whales. It doesn't mean the games are doing just fine. Unless maybe you're a shareholder.

Their latest installment of EA FC is the 41st most sold game on Steam. And that's just Steam. There are also console sales and the sales on Origin. Sensible spenders among people who play video games are a minority.

Umm. I'm really not sure what kind of argument you're trying to make here. Being the 41st most sold game on Steam with a game that released a little over four months ago isn't a good thing. One need only take a quick glance at the store page and the top rated reviews to see that the game isn't doing so hot. And I'm curious to know what it is that you're basing you last statement on. People who spend sensibly, or not at all, when it comes to in-game purchases are in the overwhelming majority. Games that generate a significant portion of their revenue through this type of model are largely propped up by whales, i.e. a very small number of individuals who spend a ludicrous amount of money.

[The nameless Gamer]

Originally posted by topiary tom:

Originally posted by The nameless Gamer:

Their latest installment of EA FC is the 41st most sold game on Steam. And that's just Steam. There are also console sales and the sales on Origin. Sensible spenders among people who play video games are a minority.

Umm. I'm really not sure what kind of argument you're trying to make here. Being the 41st most sold game on Steam with a game that released a little over four months ago isn't a good thing. One need only take a quick glance at the store page and the top rated reviews to see that the game isn't doing so hot. And I'm curious to know what it is that you're basing you last statement on. People who spend sensibly, or not at all, when it comes to in-game purchases are in the overwhelming majority. Games that generate a significant portion of their revenue through this type of model are largely propped up by whales, i.e. a very small number of individuals who spend a ludicrous amount of money.

Overwatch 2 has "Overwhelmingly negative" reviews. It's still among the top 100 played games on Steam and that's not counting the players who have it on Blizzard's launcher. The point I'm trying to make is that most "gamers" are already satisfied with shallow entertainment. They won't bother to write a positive review, they don't have deep thoughts on the products they are consuming. Most people who are playing EA FC 20XX are not going to bother writing a review. They'll play the game while it's new and trending, drop it when the next one comes out. The vast majority of gamers doesn't engage in games more than simply playing them. They don't discuss them on Reddit, Steam Forums and X, they don't write reviews... they just fire them up when they feel like playing and put them away when they find something else to keep them entertained.