It really felt all-encompassing when they hogtied the Constant right before blowing up the train in Romania.
Nah, but…this collaboration is bizarre. If it ever made sense for IOI to seek out this type of collab, it MIGHT have worked when Absolution was the newest game. He’s even doing the Abso pose in the promo pic.
This collaboration is definitely not a good fit. I guess they saw an opportunity to earn some decent money and took it. I wouldn’t necessarily say they are secretly doing bad, though it is a possibility.
It’s just brand dilution. Sure this mobile game might have more of a following in China which in itself is a powerhouse of a market to tap into, but at what cost?
Allowing one of the only things profitable about your company be used in egregious and shady micro-transaction money pit mobile games?
Sure you might get some decent returns from the collaboration, but there were other avenues to consider branching out this IP. Instead IOI branched out into China which currently stands its gaming market is now 70% mobile gamers compared to what it was in 2015.
But how many of the reported 100 million people who played state of survival actively still play the game religiously?
Again, why this? Why of all the possible collaborations you choose one that potentially might not net you much return when as it stands the market is so bloated and vast that this game doesn’t even land on any top position charts and reports for that market specifically.
The more I look into this, and how the mobile games have a stranglehold on chinas gaming market. And just seeing the charts from the market and how State of Survival doesn’t even get in the top 30 of popular titles for their market. I’m just in awe about how they landed here.
So instead of making a new Hitman game, IO are giving money to sex offenders, taking over half a decade to make a James Bond game, and shamelessly shoehorning 47 into whatever this mobile game shit is. Yuk!