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The Elder Scrolls: Blades - Cynically Greedy Mobile Garbage
🕑 Added 2019-04-12 14:05:22 +0000 UTCAn experience unlike any other! A true Elder Scrolls game on mobile! Bethesda talked a big game about about Blades, but the end result is just another mobile con job.
The Elder Scrolls: Blades is a free-to-wait game where you watch timers tick away. Whether you're building up your town or opening loot boxes, everything takes time, and the time can always be skipped... for a price.
A toned down Dungeon Keeper Mobile with boring combat and a deliberately unrewarding "reward" system, Blades is another shameless cash grab from a company that should know better.
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Games like this do not require mass-audience or high-praise to rake in money. All they need is small group of big spenders who have several thousand dollars worth of disposable income and it will be all fine and dandy. Consumer backlash, general critique, public relation, review scores, none of those matter at that point. So long as they can hook in top few percentage of consumers, they will shove in any kind of monetization tactics.
It’s already made $500,000 apparently. <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2019/04/12/elder-scrolls-blades-has-made-500000-already-what-is-wrong-with-this-world/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2019/04/12/elder-scrolls-blades-has-made-500000-already-what-is-wrong-with-this-world/</a>
Most of the graphics are asset flips for Skyrim...although technically they’re not flipping anything as it’s same universe. It’s still a flipping con job though.
Freakish Uproar
I'm actually sort of astounded that there isn't. At least to the best of my knowledge.
Trevor Bond
I like playing waiting games. Like making Bethesda wait for my money until they've made a game I want to play. And they are going to be waiting a looooooooooong time.
Alex
*Two fingers against my temple making a bang sound*
Freakish Uproar
Bethesda... No Bethesda! <b>BETHESD-</b> I wish they would just make a good single player game. It feels wrong to say that are <i>good</i> at it, per se, but we at least liked those. We could have a backslapping uproarious laugh at Skyrim's and Fallout 4's glitch-ridden goofiness. This is just sad.
Someone needs to make a free-to-wait game template where you can just upload an IP's characters and branding. Development time for next Marvel mobile game, 10 secs to upload character names and .jpgs.
