If we define the meta verse as an outdoor toilet then examples have existed for centuries.

In your face “John-Clark Levin”!

Pass. Will not touch a Blizzard game until Kotick is gone.

So we rebranding old Games as the metaverse now to give this empty marketing term meaning and making it appear that something like the metaverse can be a success?

Ho-ho, putting on pressure on PoE 2, I see.

'cuz we got used to having our data mined and using these platforms "for free".

What, you don't want to pay money so YOU can be that annoyingly bright and shiny blur of RGB flashing around the map? /s

I don't know why people are pretending like online services offering a monthly paid premium option is some new crazy idea.

Once they see one company get away with it they all want in on it...

ultima is not part of the metaverse, because the metaverse doesnt exists yet, yet another clickbait title

Free, and it always will be …

Expansions? Hell no, with cod being their shining horse? The route theyll take is:80$ game with 20$ battlepass, or 40$ for the ultimate battlepass. Then trickle updates with updates seasonals to get as much money as possible. Expansions are the way of the past (for the dollar hunting execs)

Edit: I wouldn't br surprised if there will be 2 bps

yea a few friends think that too but I think they want to get their wow for the lost ark/path of exile market going. box sales for base, expansion etc will likely be the way they go.

going full p2w on mobile is par for the course, if they do it here then I will never trust them again.

I'm so glad I gave up Facebook years ago.

I'll be deleting FB and Insta if this ends up happening, probably won't be the only one to.

Not the oldest by far lol. Many MMORPGs came before Ultima. But I get the sentiment.

What games "only play correctly on obscenely expensive hardware"? According to the top google result, the most demanding game is cyberpunk 2077. It doesn't require a 40xx, 30xx, or 20xx, or even a 10xx series card - it requires a gtx 780, and recommends a 1060. Even the recommended card series was released the better part of a decade ago.

And there are other comments here that they can run pretty much everything fine on a pre-10xx series card: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/115a172/ultraenthusiast_hardware_is_strangling_pc_gaming/j94xshs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

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The thing is, the Microsoft acquisition hasn't happened yet so milking the whales and the krakens has priority!

honestly, at this point I think they will avoid that for a long time. they've gone from being the most revered western studio(yes, in the wc/sc/diablo era the fanboys were rabid) to losing pretty much all credibility. this needs to be a win for them. they were basically the squaresoft of NA.

Look out the conspiracy theorists will be saying you stole my smarts.

Meta doing something idiotic in response to another social network doing something idiotic is the pinnacle of hilarity.

And it still is. They don't stop verifying...there are requirements and they still must verify you.

anyone who would pay money to fb so that they can harvest all of your data for every penny that they can squeeze, is an idiot.

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The platforms are nothing without the people and the content. Every dollar they make is off someone else's content. Trying to get people to cough up protection money is just peak corruption. Hopefully this is one of the things that does them in.