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To nobody's surprise, Sega has enshittified its beloved Crazy Taxi IP.

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[โ€“] sudotstar@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My hope, though I'm keeping my expectations low, is that since these supposed live-service games will be supposedly releasing alongside remakes of the original games the IP is based on, that if the remakes sell significantly better than the live service games it might hopefully inform better decision-making around them.

While they haven't been controversy-free in terms of their monetization practices, Sega has released a slew of back-to-back AAA games: Persona 3 Reload, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and Sonic Frontiers, that have generally been complete, single-purchase packages (with a few questionable omissions from base game moved to DLC that I'd consider "regular bad", but not anywhere near the level of egregious monetization seen in most live-service games).

[โ€“] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Only the fact that Infinite Wealth's NG+ is locked behind a $15 paywall.