The writer and creative director of Days Gone says that players shouldn’t “complain if a game doesn’t get a sequel” if they didn’t buy it “at f-cking full price”.
In an interview on David Jaffe’s YouTube channel, John Garvin was asked if the game’s debut on Sony’s PlayStation Plus subscription service had sparked new interest in the title.
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“I do have an opinion on something that your audience may find of interest, and it might piss some of them off,” Garvin said (thanks, VGC). “If you love a game, buy it at f-cking full price. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen gamers say ‘yeah, I got that on sale, I got it through PS Plus, whatever’.
“Don’t complain if a game doesn’t get a sequel if it wasn’t supported at launch,” Garvin added. “It’s like, God of War got whatever number millions of sales at launch and, you know, Days Gone didn’t. Just speaking for me personally as a developer – I don’t work for Sony – I don’t know what the numbers are.”
Garvin also opened up on the impact piracy has on game development.
“I can tell you that when we were doing [Syphon Filter] Dark Mirror [on PSP], we got so f-cked on Dark Mirror because piracy was a thing and Sony wasn’t really caught up on what piracy was doing to sales,” Garvin explained.