What Exactly IS "Games As A Service"?

So... Every game is going to be like "Magic the Gathering" and "Warhammer". Welcome to hell!

I absolutely love this episode. I completely understand where Bryan is coming from, in terms of single player games being my main source of video game entertainment as a high schooler, however recently I'm all about Destiny 2 and Overwatch and Monster Hunter. These are games that require constant work at least you 'fall behind'. However, this also leaves me feeling burnt out more or not from the game. (I'm trying to pull away from these MMOs tbh because of this so I can go back and finish all the great single player RPGs I feel I've missed out on. I still haven't played Horizon Zero Drawn! Can you believe that???) That being said, if you asked me 'Hey, can you recommend a game?' interestingly enough I almost never say any of these games. It's games like Hyper Light Drifter or Aragami, both short single-player RPGs, that I'm saying to people 'you've gotta play this game' so there's a thought of that too. Games may be bigger or better but they're not necessarily memorable. Perhaps this is why companies are trying to develop these games which are designed to keep you hooked, simply because none of these big studios can now make games that have people recommending them for years to come. I'm gonna jump around a bit, but Assassin's Creed Syndicate also had microtransactions available for materials so that you can progress quicker. I remember thinking to myself 'How dare you'. How little can you think of your own game that you would add this feature? To me, this says 'hey, we know we made this boring grind so here's a way to skip that'. The kicker was that it wasn't a boring grind at all. You gained that progress while playing the game as intended so it wasn't a necessary addition, it was just a money-grabbing one. This is personally where I draw the line. I don't mind Overwatch having microtransactions because A. it is purely cosmetic and B. they all free content all the time (new skins, free in-game events, new characters etc).

Games as a Service is, generally speaking, any kind of post launch content support. The Witcher 3 is a great example of a single player GaaS with its drip feed of free DLC that led up to actual, paid expansions.

I quit destiny because I did not wanna spend all that money on DLC’s

warframe has sucked so much money out of me, but I still go back because of how beautiful it is

Last i checked, video games were PRODUCTS. I'm not illiciting prostitution from game developers. Fuck this movement.

I wish I could find a way to make money from home.......

Well, you know how you used to pay for a game, then own it, and get to play it in its entirety? Well now you pay for a game over, and over, and over, and over, and over and get tiny increments of content that never add up to a complete experience. Oh, and when the game stops being popular? All that money you paid vanishes into the ether as does the game itself.

Games as a service is fine as long as the game is still playable without paying. Everyone keeps mentioning Assassin's Creed Odyssey and I have not once opened the in-game store to buy anything with real money. There is really not that much to grind. I am level 38, 40 hours in and just focus on all the side quests and main quests. I would prefer games just have cosmetic micro-transactions as DLC like Activision has just separates the player base.

Godd Howard! Save us from "games as a service"!!!

This shit is why we need to keep Nintendo alive, they're slowly becoming the only ones that understand gaming.

Wait a minute, games as a service just sounds like MMORPGs. World of Warcraft made this popular, blame Blizzard.