Lorne Lanning says launching on PS Plus was “devastating” for Soulstorm sales

[Rekkapryde]

THIS is the real reason homie needs to shut the fukk up. Why the fukk would you take a flat rate deal for this game if YOU thought you had multimillion unit sales potential? I'm not saying that there's not the possibility of a non favorable deal being signed anyway, but you capped your own revenue in the first place by taking a capped deal.

Church.

You signed a Bad Boy/Cash Money deal and wanna complain after the fact.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Releasing Day 1 is only good for the developers of F2P games or games with heavy MTX.

There's a clear reason why every MS 1P game lately follows a live service model with tons of monetization. Flight Sim, FH5, Halo Infinite, etc. Won't be surprised if Starfield and RedFall are full of monetization too.

Yeah, i 100% expect games like Fable to be multiplayer/service oriented. Its why playground is making it

 

[Diondon]

 

[Methodical]

I love Oddworld games. still playing Soulstorm

 

[The Mad Titan]

This is actually evidence that the whole Day 1 releases selling point that yall love to brag about doesn't always work out for developers lol

This is actually evidence of the opposite

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

This is actually evidence of the opposite

 

[homiedontplaydat]

I need to go back and finish this game, I was really enjoying it until Returnal came out and I never went back to it again

 

[boriquaking]

Mind you, it was only free for PS5 users, so we’re talking a fraction of gamers overall.

 

[Legal]

They took it because they didnt have enough money to finish the game. Then the game got delayed from Jan to Feb which they state under inflated the projections due to more ps5’s being available by that time.

Honestly, if this game didn’t have the big playstation marketing push due to being free on ps plus and subsequently dropping at like 60 on metacritic i doubt even long term fans would have bought it. 100k+ sales is being very generous for a game like this

I get the bolded, but that still doesn't justify taking the deal, and then turning around later and trying to frame the deal as if it crippled the profitability if the game.

At this point, there are plenty of success stories of studios that had their faith in their work rewarded financially several times over. And Lorne Planning has been in the business long enough to be expected to be able to make the right deal.

Look at Rocket league

Apples and oranges in this case. As a multiplayer game, it was situated to be able to use the exposure from PS Plus as a way to introduce themselves to their customer base for micro transactions. It also helps that the game ended up being something people REALLY liked.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Releasing Day 1 is only good for the developers of F2P games or games with heavy MTX.

There's a clear reason why every MS 1P game lately follows a live service model with tons of monetization. Flight Sim, FH5, Halo Infinite, etc. Won't be surprised if Starfield and RedFall are full of monetization too.

Yeah, cuz those games haven’t always been live service

Sony stans say the darnedest things

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Horrible article. He didn't say it was devastating for sales. He explained that they ran out of funds to complete the game, so they made a deal with Sony to put it on PS+ for a month, which meant they got a flat payment upfront (more than what they would have made from sales in that period) instead of a cut from each download.

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

Yeah, cuz those games haven’t always been live service

Sony stans say the darnedest things

...And those games also weren't selling anyways either, so it sounds like MS found a way to sell em and therefore extract more money from y'all.

I'm so appalled, Balding Satya Nadella taking dollars from yall ,
$180/yr just for Starfield in the fall* ,
you know that shyt is focking ridikkalusss

*if it comes out this year

 

[MeachTheMonster]

...And those games also weren't selling anyways either, so it sounds like MS found a way to sell em and therefore extract more money from y'all.

I'm so appalled, Balding Satya Nadella taking dollars from yall , $180/yr just for Starfield in the fall*

*if it comes out this year

Sony stans WLIM

 

[old pig]

that game wasn’t it…I 100% LEGIT forgot about it

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

...And those games also weren't selling anyways either, so it sounds like MS found a way to sell em and therefore extract more money from y'all.

I'm so appalled, Balding Satya Nadella taking dollars from yall , $180/yr just for Starfield in the fall* , you know that shyt is focking ridikkalusss

*if it comes out this year