Hello! Tony here!
As stated from last week’s blog, I would like to talk about the data that I have to come to gather.
I want to explain a bit more of my thesis examples, Bethesda’s Fallout 76 and Re-Logic Terraria. Fallout 76 was going to be the successor of Fallout 4 with new aesthetics, lots of content, and enjoyable gameplay. However, Bethesda did not succeed in the slightest. While it may hold it’s beautiful graphics, the rest of the game was completely rushed to the release; they were glitches, multiplayer was lacking security, and the story can be interrupted with other sources of unintentional interactions such as hearing one recording being skipped by another recording that talks about the lore. The game’s initial release price was $60 but depreciate dramatically in just a week due to the negative impact it gives to the gamers. The release was going so terribly that Bethesda refused to give out refunds. It overall only sold a bit over a million, according to vgchartz, so far as September 2019.
Re-Logic’s Terraria, on the other hand, is a simple sandbox 2D game that continues to sell their game ever since its release in 2011. Terraria is a 16-bit game that lets you have control. There was no story or lore to follow by; it is you who have to make the exploration. On its first initial release, they didn’t sell as much as a triple AAA game due to its simplicity, 200k copies were sold, according to wikipedia. However, after players are having such an enjoyable time making their own 2D journey, the game’s gotten more and more popular as time goes by. In 2015, Terraria had sold 12 million copies with the same game mechanics as it had on its release but with added content. Terraria gamers understand that the aesthetics of a game should not be the priority to attract sales, it should rather be on the aesthetics of gameplay. The game was so successful, it had its final content update in 2019 and have a total of 27 million copies sold currently.
They are other examples as well. You can replace Bethesda to EA with some of their games such as Battlefield V and replace Terraria with another well-known game such as Undertale.
My point is, “don’t judge a book with its cover” while the “book” is actually games.
Next week’s blog will be discussing some of the tools I will be using and it’s advantages.
Your digital artist,
Tony