I genuinely dont understand how SEGA are still in business, after decades of being completely detached from reality

Interest level 0

Aaaannnnddd its dead. Zero interest. Congratulations SEGA. I was a little bit exctied, and now I am not.

Some fuckwit VP needs fired over this decision. It was a simple game: pickup fairs, earn extra time, unlock stuff as you progress. If a publisher want extra cash, do more levels, or different jobs (delivery driver addon anyone?). And a fun soundtrack

Should have been able to bang it out for a million quid, and then reap the rewards. But nooo, now we have a game nobody wants to play, costing 20mil and will have servers shut down 2 years after launch

Everything that is wrong with gaming in 2024

How the heck is that supposed to work? If every taxi is being crazy, it's just unmanageable chaos.

Open world, MMO and AAA are like red flags to me lol

Ugh. How to kill all hype in one headline.

Ahhh the new magic words to make me not buy a game: "AAA"

So... Burnout Paradise, but with competition for fares?

I don't want to play Uber: the Game.

Open world AAA is fine. Praying they are just blowing smoke with their MMO ambitions.

Am I gonna be taxing around other players? Why would they do this to an arcade-style classic? Also clearly using "open world" as a buzzword since the original game was also an open world; you just had a time limit that prevented any real exploration.

Well, who else is gonna wait for some passionate fan of the original to play 2 minutes of that game, get a refund, then work on an open source clone of the original that will absolutely be the unofficial official sequel literally all fans wanted?

Idk about yall but as soon as a publisher classifies their game as triple A it’s definitely Walmart discount bin quality to me

Why AAA? Come on Sega, you can get it to AAAA, have people pay for time like back in the arcade days! Game starts, you get "Insert coin" and a microtransaction!

Dream big!

The only way I can see this working is battle royale style, stick 100 taxies on a map and kill the lowest performer every 10 seconds. But also allow for some sort of stealing other people's pasangers and money to make it interactive. That has the potential to be fun if made correctly, which it won't be unfortunately.

So, it’ll be Crazy Taxi only in name.

that sounds like a joke 😭😭😭

I'm willing to keep an open mind until it releases, but that tells me that the gameplay will be nothing like the original.

Of course, another $70 live service game we reaaaaally need

Let's be honest here. The original series was on arcades and you had to get from point A to point B. For the current generation of gamers this is the equivalent of a mini-game you play on the loading screen of the main game. I'm not defending the GaaS shit, but what did you guys expect?

The execs are certainly living up to the crazy portion of the name

DOA

And of course it will be full of micro-transaction bs. No thank you, I will keep playing my indie games instead.

My hype became fear, just like that.

Yay! I won buzzword bingo on this one!

dont quite think competitive taxi multiplayer online makes much of a great idea. maybe slap some AI on so all passengers tell you dreadfull long stories that make no sense....then I'm in

As with most games I'll wait until about 3 months after it releases before I consider whether I'm going to buy it. It's not like it's going to run of copy's out is it?

Why?

I wonder how many of the devs working on the title actually believe in this direction

It'll be like GTA except you can't get out of the car ¯\_(ツ)_/¯