Disney could have saved Disney Infinity right?
OK, so, Disney cancelled Disney Infinity, why? As far as I can tell, it’s got something to do with the cost of the figures and maybe competition with Battlefront.
From what I can tell, they just completely dropped the game without trying anything to keep it going (that’s why I got into it, figured I’d buy all of the Star Wars figures), they even laid out a timeline showing that the servers would but shutdown after something like, a few months.
Okay, the cost of the figures part doesn’t seem too hard to fix, I feel like Disney should have figured out that producing the highest quality toy to life figures might not quite be feasible in the long run. Easy fix? Make the characters downloadable for one, forcing everybody to buy all of those figures to unlock characters (not even unlock, you have to have the figures on the plate and the plate plugged in to your console to use them, very annoying. (Note: I get that this is a toys to life thing, but I don’t play others)), buying those things adds up, especially parents buying them for kids. Who wants to buy a stack load of figures for their kids, that they will break?
Still on the figures, why make figures like the translucent Hulk fist? That’s right, that’s a thing, it’s one of the play-set things, tell me that’s not a waste of money, I dare you. If they wanted to waste money on figures, I’m sure they could sell vehicle figures and why not make alternate look figures, or more obscure characters like Plo-Koon or Kit Fisto?
Speaking of Star Wars, they could have used 3.0 to make the game more mature, draw in a more mature gaming audience, some bits aren’t so bad, but there are missions that are 100% directed at children (There’s one mission where you have to help a Twilek play on a swing set, bloody ridiculous).
Before finishing, Disney actually had plans to continue the line with things like Doctor Strange and Rogue One, but they just dropped everything.
In closing, Disney Infinity should’ve had downloads and matured the game a bit, or literally done anything, like, at all.
