Publisher 2K Games has also now joined the discussion about the supposedly dying single-player games, which Electronic Arts, for example, believes have no great future.
This statement sparked controversy in recent days. heated discussions This is because there are still many publishers and developers who enjoy creating single-player games and are successful with them. In the context of the latest quarterly report, the 2K Games CEO also commented on this. Strauss Zelnick He spoke out, stating that the success of a game doesn't depend on whether it's single-player or multiplayer, but rather on the quality behind it. He himself doesn't rule out the possibility of seeing more great single-player games from 2K Games, as well as from other developers.
Electronic Arts, meanwhile, is pursuing a Games-as-a-Service model, which provides long-term support for games while players invest increasing amounts of money in them. Whether this is the ideal middle ground everyone is looking for, however, is certainly debatable. Ultimately, it will likely be the diversity of games and business models that keeps the industry vibrant.
Feedback is taken very seriously
2K Games doesn't want to completely forgo unpopular features like microtransactions, which were criticized in NBA 2K18, for example. However, they take this feedback very seriously, and ultimately, it's more important for the publisher that the game is generally well-received so that the brands can continue to grow.
For games like Red Dead Redemption, long-term support is already being planned, with the hope that players will reward this by returning more often and investing more money in the game. The same applies to other games, but this doesn't necessarily mean that all of them will be exclusively online games.
