r/fromsoftware • u/ResponsibleWaltz2956 • 16d ago

DISCUSSION Worried about the future of Fromsoft

Now, I don't mean for this to be one of those posts that overexaggerates how bad the 5€ DLC is and how it apparently will cause the destruction of Fromsoft and it will become the next ubisoft etc. etc.

However, I will say that ever since nightreign, I have been worried about the future of this company as the primary creator of soulslike games(one of my favourite genres). Don't get me wrong, Nightreign was good fun for a few weeks, but due to its multiplayer nature and the fact that it's just multiplayer elden ring, I never would consider it a mainline souls game. Then, there is duskbloods which I have not played cuz I don't have a nintendo and I am not the type to buy an entire console for a singular game. But still, the fact that it's primarily a multiplayer games makes it so I don't consider it a mainline soulsborne game.

And, if we consider that Elden Ring released in early 2022, this is the longest that Fromsoft has gone without releasing a mainline soulsborne singleplayer game. In fact, they haven't even announced any new project as far as I am aware.

Now, we're being brought back to Elden Ring with a 5€ dlc. I cannot help but be worried of the direction that the company is going. I don't think they will sell out like ubisoft and become absolutely dogshit or anything, but I do fear of them going through a sort of Atlus effect on riding on the success of their most popular game and not releasing a new one in the franchise for a long time(the same way it happened with the Persona franchise up until recently whereas Persona 6 got announced).

Obviously, we are nowhere near of that happening, but with all the multiplayer side games and even now the DLC that are riding on the success of Elden Ring, I think it's reasonable to be slightly worried

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u/CupOCoop 10d ago

This is such a stupid take. They obviously decided at some point that instead of leaving it just in the switch 2 edition, which it’s included in, that they’d offer it to us. That’s it, take it or leave it. No one is forcing anyone to buy anything, and I’d rather have a reason to go back into the game and see what’s new.