The Culling Returns With Absurd "Pay-To-Play-To-Pay-To-Play" Business Model - Jim Sterling
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Man. I can't believe how much potential and goodwill The Culling squandered. There's no reason a Culling sequel in the vein of the original wouldn't work today without all this other fuckery around it.
LMAO.
That business model is just crazy. Why buy tokens if you can by a 7/30 day pass.
This game is DOA.
That business model is just crazy. Why buy tokens if you can by a 7/30 day pass.
This game is DOA.
I don't understand. If you want people to pay to keep playing but keep the illusion of f2p/no monthly subs, why would you not make a battle pass?
Unless you don't believe there will be enough people playing your game to battle passes to generate profit? But then... how is this arcade cab model going to fare any better?
Unless you don't believe there will be enough people playing your game to battle passes to generate profit? But then... how is this arcade cab model going to fare any better?
So it's mobiles Lives/Fuel system, but somehow even more restrictive.
Yeah... doesn't sound like that works too good in a multiplayer based game.
Yeah... doesn't sound like that works too good in a multiplayer based game.
It boggles the mind how poorly the game has been handled.
The first one was a decent hit for a few weeks there and now it's all just a joke.
Sounds like either $0.99 for three tokens, $1.99 for 7 tokens or $4.99 for 20 tokens? Or you can pay $1.99 for a 7-day unlimited pass or $4.99 for a 30-day unlimited pass.
This is utterly ridiculous, and probably one of the worst models I've seen for an online game. And yet I find myself laughing because at least paying for matches is still dollars for content. Meanwhile, people spend $15-20 for an individual skin ... so there are still worse bang-for-your-buck returns when it comes to content unlocked for dollars spent. What we're seeing in the video, though, is the reality for many mobile games where you get a few free matches to start until the game becomes impossible because you need to buy 400 shimmering jewels or some shit. Except for this one ... there's a price of entry. Pretty fucking terrible all around.
Sounds bad
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The Culling: Origins returns to Xbox One on May 14 | GodisaGeek.com
Today, Xaviant has announced the return of one of the earliest battle royale survival games, The Culling: Origins, coming back to Xbox One on May 14.
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- Players can play one free match online each day. Players can play additional matches through the following means:
- Winning an online match grants an Online Match Token
- Packs of Online Match Tokens can be purchased (3 tokens = $0.99, 10 tokens = $2.99, 20 tokens = $4.99)
- Online Passes providing unlimited online play can be purchased for 7 Days ($1.99) or 30 Days ($5.99)
- Xbox One graphical quality improved dramatically, rendering at 30% higher resolution with the addition of anti-aliasing and an improved framerate
- A.I. behaviour has been overhauled to provide a much more compelling and challenging offline experience
- Player stamina system has been tweaked – reducing the time it takes for stamina to fully regenerate
- The game no longer includes premium items or charges for crates. Players can level up, earn crates, and unlock airdrops through offline play.
- In order to keep the game alive indefinitely, a great deal of effort has been spent streamlining back-end systems to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
- A side effect of this effort is that past saved games will be wiped and all previous unlocks have been reset.
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Woooooooooow. This is amazing.
Woooooooooow. This is amazing.
Holy shit, they did THIS after the failure and complete mismanagement of the second game which then got pulled and erased from existence in under a week?
Who the fuck is so incompetent, still gets f'n paid after the failure of a century and then does this? Whoever is linked to this in any way should never ever been allowed to work in this business again. How can you be that dumb?
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And you even have to pay for this game???? What the hell.
Who the fuck is so incompetent, still gets f'n paid after the failure of a century and then does this? Whoever is linked to this in any way should never ever been allowed to work in this business again. How can you be that dumb?
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And you even have to pay for this game???? What the hell.
Welp, looks like Georgia is going to have one less game development studio soon.
They're just going to get bad publicity out of this. From the sounds of how tightly they're having to maintain their costs, I'd imagine they don't have another way out if this game fails.
They're just going to get bad publicity out of this. From the sounds of how tightly they're having to maintain their costs, I'd imagine they don't have another way out if this game fails.
They obviously want The Culling V2 to be a bigger failure than The Culling 2 was so the circle will be complete.
They're trying to do an "arcade" business model for a game that you fucking buy up front. Utter lunacy, is what it is.
There's so many free games out there that are better than this. smh how do they still have resources for this dead franchise?
Here's the sad part - The Culling in its original release was super novel by battle royale standards both then and today, but it must've been a fluke, because the devs just can't stop fucking it up.
I played a little bit of The Culling back when it first came out... it was a cool game. Why do the developers insist on doing stupid shit over and over and over again like this? Who is calling the shots over there? It's ridiculous.
So the tokens are there simply to make the scummy subscription fees seem comparably good value.
I'm sure it'll work out great!
I'm sure it'll work out great!
