Kürzlich war „Days Gone“-Game Director John Garvin im Podcast by “God of War” creator David Jaffe as a guest and was approached by him about the zombie open world game. More specifically, Jaffe wanted to know from his colleague whether he had noticed a “significant increase in interest” in “Days Gone” since the title was part of the PlayStation Plus Collection. In his answer, Garvin found clear words and especially criticized all those players who did not support games for the release.
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Garvin then stated that he had an opinion on the subject that might interest and annoy some of the show’s audiences: “If you love a game, buy it for the bloody price! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen players say, ‘Yeah, I got this on sale, I got it through PlayStation Plus or whatever’. “
Jaffe then replied how gamers should know if they really love a game if they hadn’t played it yet. Garvin then specified his previous remarks and said that players shouldn’t complain about “if a game doesn’t get a sequel if it wasn’t supported at the start.” As the former “Days Gone” game director adds, he would only be his here express personal opinion and not speak as a developer because he no longer works for Sony.
Garvin also spoke about personal experiences during the development of “Siphon Filter: Dark Mirror” for the PlayStation Portable. Back then, piracy was a big problem for the developers at Bend Studio, which Sony initially didn’t notice: “And we showed them (…) that a torrent site had downloaded 200,000 copies of ‘Dark Mirror’. If I remember correctly, the numbers could be wrong, but anyway, I was pissed off about it at the time, I thought, ‘This is money out of my pocket’.
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The increase in player interest in “Days Gone” is therefore not so important in his opinion. According to Garvin, the more decisive factor is whether interested buyers actually support a game directly when it is released and thus buy it “at full price”. Only when people did this would they be directly supporting the developers of the game in question.
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