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You remember pga tour? It's a game you made. And it is greatly being neglected by you. This game is far from good. And where are the updates? Do you think you can quit updating the game. And ten just...
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@Wildesie wrote:… Golf has become too niche for a big company like EA with shareholders, they want millions users, just not a few thousands.
This quote really stands out. I remembered some Simmers who claimed that golf is a niche sport to justify the game getting more difficult after the Notorious Update 3 got implemented. They even used that argument to request more elements of difficulty to the game such as nerfing the flop shot or making bunkers/rough highly punishing. Some arcade players including me argued that making the current game too niche and more difficult would turn off the casual fanbase; I also mentioned that Simmers would also be turned off if game is not difficult enough. Let’s fast forward about 1.5 years later; the game becomes too niche to be abandoned.To act on every Simmers’ request is not a good idea if getting millions of users is the goal.
golf is not a niche sport. It’s the most played game I the world and participation has also grown significantly since Covid. Combine that with the fact that digital golf games have been around forever including some very popular iterations - notably this very games predecessor and the failure lands squarely on the gameplay of any particular game. Hockey is niche but NHL series has continually been well done and received where golf should have a larger following and fan base with a good game.
Golf is not the most played game or sport in the world.
He forgot to say by rich people and their children, because it's certainly not a sport for poor people. Those are playing sports where all is needed is a ball.
And those rich people playing golf are certainly not buying golf games. The CEO at 2K was all excited after 2M copies sold for 2K21, and many of those copies were given for free, just like mine as Playstation game of the month.
Yeah, I mean $500 for a decent golf bag and I don't have anything special in there. It's now up to $90 a round before 3pm for my course, $75 after. Membership for a couple is closing to $5000 and counting... Nice thing is that it's getting easier and easier to get a tee off anytime we want again. On weekday, we can even just show up at the club and get on the course almost right away. Golf is definitely not mainstream these days, more like for people making good money.
For HB now 2K, all their games since TGC 2019 have been given away for free as Playstation game of the month at some point, that's how I got all of them and barely played any of them. As other have mentioned in the past, they all have the same feel to me as the original Golf Club and it's boring in no time. Still, I'm sure they all count as a new sale when somebody download them.
Anyway, it's all 2K from now on, at least until there's a new CEO at EA with another vision than to stick only with games played by millions of customers.
