More gaming news regarding things ending, Lego Dimensions – the youngest of the main 3 “Toy to Life” video games – is no longer going to have any new figure or level releases. This comes after the game being on the market for just over 2 years of what is reported to be a 3 year plan for the game.
While the games online services will stay active, and already released figures and level packs will continue to be produced and available in stores, but that’s it – no new content will be produced, which is effectively the beginning of the end for a game like this – no new content means the game gets old, especially for its target demographic of kids, units will slowly sell less and less and once they drop past a certain point, that’s it. Production ends and the game goes away for good.
This does, but at the same time doesn’t surprise me. Toy to Life game sales have dropped heavily over the past few years. Disney Infinity was already killed off earlier last year, and Skylanders didn’t have a new release this year, leaving many to feel Imaginators will be the last release of the series.
At the same time, though, I felt like Dimensions could have supplanted every other Lego video game – sell the game as a service, then sell the expansions for what people want. It could have worked out, but I think prices got in the way here.
Lego sets are expensive. Lego Dimensions expansion packs were also expensive, with fun packs starting around $12, team packs going for around $24, but also level packs costing around $30 for content that, in some cases, takes all of an hour to complete for a skilled gamer. Last comes “story packs” for around $40 which I can only presume add a decent amount of content, but still, that’s quite an expensive way to get more characters and levels, compared to Skylanders and Disney Infinity figure pricing.
At that rate, while yes, the toys that come with the expansion content are proper Lego sets, these prices are high enough that it would almost be better to just buy a proper Lego set and leave it at that. As much as this game series could have done right, I guess it was just the wrong brand at the wrong time.
Now, really, all I can do is wait and see what happens with Skylanders.
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