Sorry for the break, let’s get back to it, shall we? Here’s the news
- Bethesda Justifies Stopping Used Game Sale
- How Fallout 76 “Turns Assholes into Interesting Content”
- Bandai Namco Teases New Horror Game
Bethesda’s Legal Action
If you’ve been tuned into gaming news lately, you like heard about publisher/developer Bethesda’s legal team issuing a C&D for an Amazon listing of a sealed copy of The Evil Within 2. This has the community upset over that they were trying to stop people from reselling games. Marketing executive Pete Hines has since issued a statement. He states that the listing was forcibly taken down because it was a pre-owned copy listed as new. Sealed or not, if it’s not directly coming from a trusted retailer, sales of games have to be listed as pre-owned, which the Amazon listing failed to do. He then reiterates that they have zero intention of limiting used game sales.
This response makes sense to me, but many in the gaming community aren’t having it. Others believe this to be a facade, and that the company is still discreetly trying to limit game sales. Considering this was an action taken by their historically stiff legal team, I believe Hines.
Fallout 76 Griefing Measures
With QuakeCon happening the previous weekend, we learned a few new things about various Bethesda franchises. We saw a trailer detailing the new card-based perk system, but we knew that. We also learned how they plan on making griefers a gameplay mechanic.
When you’re killed by a player, they will then be marked as a “wanted murderer.” This status does the following: They are marked on the minimap to all other players, they have a cap bounty on their head that scales with their level, the bounty is taken out of the murderer’s personal cap stash upon death. If the person they killed returns and avenges themselves, they will get double the cap bounty.
I like this idea, it really incentivizes other to attack them, while hindering them all the same. My only concern is whether a player will instigate someone into attacking, but the defender successfully protects themselves. Will the defender now be targeted as a murderer? I don’t know. We will see this October.
Bandai Namco’s New Game
A new teaser site was recently made like by popular game company Bandai Namco. It shows a loading screen for something called domas_SCENE01, which then displays a static-y video feed of a standard suburban home. The site is called domas.bn-ent.net, so people are taking that the game’s name is Domas. The website’s meta keywords include horror and zombie. Lastly, There appears to be the date of August 30, 2018, at 4 PM. So whatever this is, we’ll likely find out then.
That’s all for today, thanks for tuning in. I hope you all enjoyed the latest episode of the Cozy Co-op, which featured Luke “DaThings1”. Tune in tomorrow for another news post. Otherwise, have a great day!