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[Draugoth]

Babylon’s Fall is one of the biggest failures from Square Enix and PlatinumGames. With Square Enix confirming recently they will stop all support and GameStop is starting to trash all unsold copies.



CheapAssGamer reported the news stating that stores will start trashing all unsold copies. This isn’t new for retailers as unsold stock that take up valuable space is either shipped to a warehouse as penny stock or sold at a loss.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Quick. Turn it into an offline game.

 

[Saber]

And nothing of value was lost.gif

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Though gamers avoided this like the plague, they can't even get rid of this for $9.99? Better than $0.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

You can play it sólo in campaign but you need to have PS plus to play it.

WTF? Who comes up with this nonsense?

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

What took them so long?

 

[Jaybe]

Bury it in the desert

 

[SeraphJan]

Item description: This item provide a waste of space in your inventory slot

 

[ThatGamingDude]

Huh maybe I'll start dumpster diving again....

 

[Arsic]

The fact they didn’t even attempt to make this free to play is baffling.

F2P , sell your battle pass and store items, and see what happens in 6 months. One last hurrah.

I’m that one guy on steam who played a lot of it and loved it. The story could’ve been better but I thought every other aspect was a blast. Sad to see it go but it was handled like shit by square and the developers.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

The fact they didn’t even attempt to make this free to play is baffling.

F2P , sell your battle pass and store items, and see what happens in 6 months. One last hurrah.

I’m that one guy on steam who played a lot of it and loved it. The story could’ve been better but I thought every other aspect was a blast. Sad to see it go but it was handled like shit by square and the developers.

I was thinking the same, but going by the reviews (totally grilled beyond burnt) they surely decided a shit game isn't worth retrying with F2P. Game is getting around a 50% on MC and user reviews way worse.

 

[jufonuk]

Where has this happened before ? Oh yeah ET and games crash.

 

[jufonuk]

Bury it in the desert

Nintendo right now

 

[drganon]

They could sell the disc as a drink coaster.

 

[Stuart360]

Whats the point of trashing them?, why not just put them on sale for like 50 cents or something, or just give a copy away with every purchase, etc.

 

[daywarf]

Whats the point of trashing them?, why not just put them on sale for like 50 cents or something, or just give a copy away with every purchase, etc.

Just like pour milk into river?
I know milk is always needed and cutting its number can raise the price.
But the discs? SE may do this to burry their failure but retailers?

 

[Bartski]

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Whats the point of trashing them?, why not just put them on sale for like 50 cents or something, or just give a copy away with every purchase, etc.

Real estate is more valuable than item occupying it.

 

[Gone]

 

[CuteFaceJay]

why not just give them away with PS5's ?

 

[ThatGamingDude]

why not just give them away with PS5's ?

Depleting stocks would be dependent on sales of PS5s instead of just being able to dump them all at once
Say, 5 PS5s a day versus dumping 300 all at once
Eh, eh

 

[Spyxos]

Hmm now i kinda want to try it out. It can't be soooo bad.

 

[Fuz]

You can play it sólo in campaign but you need to have PS plus to play it.

WTF? Who comes up with this nonsense?

Square.

 

[lh032]

Microsoft should acquire platinum games so they can personally bury this game and scalebound.

 

[Punished Miku]

I couldn't even try the demo. Required me to create some SQEX account and my eyes glazed over almost immediately at all the fine print.

 

[kyussman]

I was speaking to the guy that bought this game the other day,he's super pissed.....said it was one of his favorites ever.

 

[Warnen]

Funny most gamers trashed it months ago…

 

[Kuranghi]

They forecasted their own demise with that self-fulfilling prophecy of a name, they should've called it Babylon's Total 100% Success:

 

[Sleepwalker]

Is this the one about killing chaos or the other one ? Both look the same to me lmao

 

[The Stig]

I never heard of this game. Looking it up now.

 

[R6Rider]

As I've said before, worth grabbing copies for the extra cases.

 

[The_hunter]

Is this the one about killing chaos or the other one ? Both look the same to me lmao

That game is decent. This is the platinum games GAAS title made by their B team.

 

[PleazureDome]

 

[AJUMP23]

People will want it, now that they cannot have it.

 

[wipeout364]

You can play it sólo in campaign but you need to have PS plus to play it.

WTF? Who comes up with this nonsense?

Isn’t the game unplayable after February.

 

[Punished Miku]

People will want it, now that they cannot have it.

It'll be available digitally.

 

[AJUMP23]

It'll be available digitally.

not for long.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Isn’t the game unplayable after February.

The most possible is that no.

In fact, if you don't have PS Plus or be online, you can't get past the main menu.

 

[Elginer]

This some bullshit

 

[Pejo]

Babylon's Fall fans:

 

[Fuz]

Damn I want one now.

 

[remember_spinal]

Babylon's Fall fan:

FTFY

 

[Fake]

Babylon's Fall fans:

 

[Bragr]

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Babylon's Fall fans:

Are there fans of Babylon's Fall?

 

[Pejo]

Are there fans of Babylon's Fall?

If Stadia has fans, so must Babylon's Fall.

 

[Punished Miku]

This game is going to be worth money on the dark web.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Gaming is the most disrespected hobby even with the massive success of console sales.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Whats the point of trashing them?, why not just put them on sale for like 50 cents or something, or just give a copy away with every purchase, etc.

There’s other considerations than simply getting rid of the stock, supplier relations and such. Imagine the news stories if they just gave copies away for free? Square-Enix would lose their shit.

The game is a commercial disaster, but you don’t point that out to people who haven’t noticed.

 

[Halo2redvsblue]

Game should of been on Gamepass, the quality fits according to some people.