10 Video Games That Wasted Brilliant Concepts
4. Chocobo GP
The newest game on this list, Chocobo GP just came out on March 10th, 2022, and quickly made a lot of people very angry.
On paper this should have been a slam dunk. A kart racer from one of the most beloved and revered franchises in video game history, able to take any characters from its long and illustrious history and throw them into racing mayhem? How could that possibly go wrong?
By having some incredibly terrible monetization practices, that's how.
At an initial purchase of $50 USD, the game was filled to the brim with annoyances, having an in-game currency that you can only get by spending real world money, and an incredibly frustrating battle pass that locks characters like Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 behind days of gameplay. Of course, that grind could be offset by purchasing in-game currency to speed things along.
After a loud outcry on social media, the developers have made some balance changes to make things easier to unlock, as well as added in-game currency as a real unlockable, but the damage seems to have already been done.
It's a shame, as this idea could have been a real blast under better circumstances.