In 2016, Electronic Arts released what might be the last major big-budget shooter, Respawn Entertainment titan fall 2. The game to quote a particularly NSFW achewood, James Bond was in a towel: full of amazingly intricate level design, fast and balletic movement, and incredibly satisfying gunplay. It was enlightening, a whole new kind of fun that grew out of something many players already enjoyed, like if Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 suddenly got a tango mod, right an NFL team released a Christmas album. Then EA spent the next seven years doing everything it could to not make a sequel.
The latest affront comes over a Bloomberg report say EA has canceled a secret single player game in Titanfall /Apex Legends Universe that was in development at Respawn. This would be the second time (that we are aware of) that a Titanfall sequel – the free to play battle royale game – has been cancelled Apex Legends began his life as Titanfall 2 episode.
There are probably boring business reasons for the cancellation. titan fall 2 was a massive critical success, but EA did not consider it a financial success – and unfortunately, almost every single player game is priced poorly compared to a free-to-play game like e.g. B. have problems Apex Legendswhat has raised more than $2 billion. None of this makes sense in what we call Regular People Math: EA also continues to print money with the microtransaction-driven FIFA Ultimate Team mode (so much so that the company now omits the earnings of this game from the annual reports). And yet the publisher has just finished a few projects – including, yes, a Titanfall mobile game, Apex Legends Mobile.
“No more Titanfall sequels” is pretty low on the list of reasons why unbridled growth in profits from big-budget video games is bad. But it is not Not on the list.
