![]() ![]() Yes, there's all that “Marvel MMO” news floating around, but a) that's old news and b) not an official announcement of anything, so I'm not counting it. Daybreak, on the other hand, seemed like it was still skating by on its previous titles and, despite its recent-at-the-time acquisition by Enad Global 7, didn't feel to me like a company that was going to make waves in 2021 and I was correct, at least from an official standpoint. Prediction #4: No major new game announcements from Daybreak Game Company (Q agrees, Mike disagrees)įor 2020, I said there would be no major announcements from ArenaNet, only for the company to announce the next Guild Wars 2 expansion (which is still not due out until early next year). Yes, that's the reason, it's totally not because I botched this one so badly. I don't think I'll be repeating this category of prediction this year, because I just did a piece on games we can expect to see in 2022(-ish) and everything gets delayed anyway. Even so, I missed Lost Ark's window by about two months, and Project L is still a long ways off, according to a recent dev diary from Riot. For as much as I'd talked with Grinding Gear Games' Chris Wilson over the past couple of years, I should have known that the game wouldn't be out in 2021, in any form, and we got confirmation on that point in April. ![]() I regretted the PoE 2 prediction almost as soon as I made it. (Mike agrees on Lost Ark, disagrees on PoE 2 and Project L) (Q agrees on PoE2 and Lost Ark, disagrees on Project L) Prediction #3: Launching this year: Path of Exile 2, Lost Ark, and Riot's Project L Ubisoft's high-tech battle royale is dead in all but name, but since you can still actually play it, that makes me 0-for-2. ANTHEM VIDEO GAME UPDATEPrediction #2: Hyper Scape won't survive 2021 (Q and Mike disagree)Ĭhecks Is it still around? Yep, looks like, though the last update on the site was on April 6. Still, I'm very strict about the scoring, so this one gets a big fat zero, because while my heart was in the right place, I still missed the target – which is kind of how it goes when I play PUBG:BG. I was half right a major game did announce that it would go F2P in 2021, but it was PUBG:BG (really, that's such a stupid name), which will flip the F2P switch in January 2022. It worked with Rocket League the year before, so I thought I'd go with Among Us – which is already F2P on mobile devices – for 2021. My prediction du jour the past few years has been betting that a pretty-successful game goes free-to-play in the coming year. ![]() You can see my predictions for 2021 here, as well as the opinions of the other two primary members of the MMOBomb podcast, and … well, let's just get through the unpleasant summary quickly, shall we? Prediction #1: Among Us goes F2P on all platforms (Q and Mike disagree) In previous years, I've had a hit rate of about three out of five, which is pretty darned good, all things considering. If you're new to the site, my yearly predictions piece goes like this: Around the start of every new year, I make five predictions about video gaming for the coming year and – unlike everyone else out there who makes wild guesses about the future – I actually follow up on them a year later to see how I've done. ![]()
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