Agreed! Like I said, Once A Company becomes Public, this enterprise will only please the greeny dollar eyes of its investors who dont even know whats the soul and passion of a true game.

Greed within gaming industry is just the tip of it all.Corporate greed is very prominent in the workforce,housing,transportation, food etc..... all the while wages stay far below the controlled cost of living. It all goes hand in hand all across the board, unfortunately.

It’s the core structure of capitalism. Without a powerful system to regulate it and keep it in line this sort of cannibalistic collapse of conditions is the only possible outcome. Competition does not function to prevent monopoly or duopoly control without aggressive antitrust which does not exist. The rot is endemic and total and until people recognize that the CORE problem is most aspects of their lives is shareholder capitalism things will just keep getting worse for us all.

​@@munchkingod6💯

one day people need to get off of their asses and vote protest and boycott these companies that ruin our lives like black rock vanguard and state street

This is very true.

The enshitification of everyday life.

Also the fact that our current system for retirement causes a lot of problems. People with 403Bs, 401Ks, and IRAs cause a ton of obsession with stock prices.

@@Lupostehgreatthose people don’t cause the obsession with stock prices brother. They are just trying to have a modest retirement fund. It is the hedge funds who have huge amount of shares in these blue chips. Not the average worker with a 401k

It goes way beyond that. It has more to do with the Blackrocks of the world promising easy funding if these companies toe the ESG line. They inject all kinds of DEI nonsense into their companies chasing after all that enticing ESG funding and they are killing their own companies in the process. They get their Blackrock funding at the cost of their own consumers. Greed is blinding them as they charge headlong into their own demise.

Exactly.

the whole world is collapsing

All because of leftism. Democrats are helping the .001% steal the worlds wealth. This is all part of a much bigger plan.

that only means something else has to replace it or step up ,at least thats how it used to be...idk if thats the case anymore...

Korean Hollywood is booming, they're putting out better content than America....

Can you blame them? The reality is that the shift towards live service/micro transactions/loot boxes are a reflection of demand. You can have masterpiece level games like Pathologic 2 that barely sell enough to keep a small studio afloat while mediocre buggy trash from an established franchise (lets say Fallout 76) or some terrible gacha garbage sell 100x more.

Yes, I can blame them. They charge the increased price of $70 and then load the game with microtransactions for even more money. What they don't tell you is that over half the money made off microtransactions comes from a small group of people: the whales. These are people that buy EVERYTHING regardless of quality, be it fomo, completionist, full on compulsive spending, they don't care. The game's industry is full on exploiting part of their audience and it's a disgusting practice. Especially when a decent sized chunk of their audience keeps fighting against microtransactions, the industry knows we don't like the added storefront in every other game, they don't care

exactly

@@W1ndF4lc0n those people are only buying fallout because if established IP

@@Matanumi That's my point. People will buy literal pile of shit if its from an established IP, but won't support new games even if they are very good. That's the problem, consumer demand. There is very little market demand for quality games among game players.

But better graphics make a good game even better. And they kind of do. Why should I buy modern hardware if the game looks like from the 80s?

​@ninochaosdrache3189 you don't need modern hardware to play good games

@@ninochaosdrache3189 No, a good GAME makes a game better. Graphics are just a bonus.

I am glad someone says it, and I totally agree. As I wrote in another comment, I would like to share my thoughts here as well. I am of the idea that this is one of the reasons the videogame industry is in danger. Nowadays the companies worry way more in making a game with the ultimate graphics. -Now, developing games takes way more time to make, when in the past they were being released in one-two years apart and with quality. - Their development costs increase way too much because of this. - Nowadays, it seems developers are more worried about the graphics of the game than in the overall quality of the content. Ultimate graphics, but barebone games.

​​@@ninochaosdrache3189. Funny enough, most of the games in PS1 and PS2, for instance, are way better than nowadays games.

Preach. I hope it is apocalyptic so the normies and crazies leave.

yea long overdue,and e sports and other tournaments also need demolished to bits as well...

Except gaming itself has become too big to fail. If gaming is going to have a "crash" it'll be western only and there will be FAR many more problems in the background (like.... not affording you rent or food)

I don’t get people who talk like this. AAA has been increasingly shit for two decades. That’s not where any of the good games are; thet’re all from AA and smaller budgets as well as indies (including some rare as hens teeth indie AAA titles like Baldur’s gate III and Witcher). There are more games to play than there is time. Stop feeding the AAA industry.

The AAA/AAAA industry will crash for sure, meanwhile indie games will thrive and survive.

You need investment for business to grow though, and the truth is pretty much anyone can invest in a lot of these companies. e.g I have some stock in Nintendo, not a lot - about $2k but I can still say i own a crumb of a major company. Single shares are something like $14 now on the NTDOY tracker. If a bunch of fans cobbled their money together and started a "company" (just a legal entity rather than something that had employees etc) they could easily buy a significant chunk of any company and have a say at financial Q+A etc. If anyone wanted to dip out, you just sell their share of the, er, shares

@@ls.c.5682 That would require some investment of time, money, and attention into the industry. Too much effort for casual consumers. Easier to stay in the cycle: buy the sloppy product, get disappointed, blame it on capitalism, share their discontent with other lazy consumers, and then get excited for the next AAA game. 😂

​@@jsnaggz laziness is a pretty small factor in this in the grand scheme of things, and spherexxx was making a more general statement, which applies to all of the current western corporate environment, and with that in mind, yes, some people could afford to contribute a bit in such a way, but not the vast majority, and no, not nearly enough to actually fix the problem, they would still be outnumbered on the board by people who don't understand the industry, but had more money to begin with, and those shareholders each have at least as much invested as we would collectively invest. I do agree that we need to stop consuming the AAA titles and then complaining, the people doing that are also not helping, but they're ultimately the vocal minority. I am someone who hasn't bought a AAA game since I bought Minecraft ages ago, but I'm pretty sure that was before the Microsoft acquisition, so that doesn't even really count. I have played AAA games since, and I have been bought AAA games a few times, but I have not bought them myself.

@@ls.c.5682tell that to Blackrock jewishit CEO a.k.a Larry Fink

Yep. Anytime shareholders are involved everything goes downhill.

shareholders are the enemy of any type of creativity, it causes the creator to be scared of doing anything that doesn't make "number go up" and getting sued. so it all becomes about profit instead of art, beauty, creativity.

@@AKATenn I'd go even further and say shareholders are the enemy of everything. Businesses are created to fill a need and provide something. And it isn't shareholder value. Value is created because the business is good at fulfilling its purpose. Once the purpose becomes making money instead of product, you can bet shareholder value is the next thing down the drain. AAA gaming is about to find that out the hard way.

Shareholders are the enemy of everyone actually they are economic parasitoids that destroy everything they get involved in by forcing it into an unsustainable fools errand for perpetual growth instead of stable consistent ROI and when this untennable impossible task fails it destroys the business while the shareholders golden parachute away to their next victim having extracted all the wealth from the situation and ruining the business for the employees and customers.

@@briansmith303 Amen 🙏

And a lot of other industries 😢

The problem is greed not popularity

​@@draco_1876exactly.

I use to be a Dbz fan . But now I can't stand it

@@draco_1876 Popularity enables greed, every time, because everything has a price. P.S. Anime was better when everyone was pirating it.

@@richardhunter9779 lmfao

The global economy is in a death spiral. The more economic signs look bad, the more shareholders try to milk everything. The more they try to milk everything, the more economic signs look bad.

The wrong side won the cold war

Okay Stalin. Get off your alt account

​@@TeddyKrimsony not really, no.

​@TeddyKrimsony we'd be worse if Russia won.

So slaughter blackrock &/or vanguard? 🤣

@@cryptik3918 sounds good 😅 not that easy tho

@@timh.7169 No amount of money reinforces organs, friend.

Yep

It's always the Jews for some of you, huh.

Moral of the story: keep shareholders away from your company if you want to keep making games that’ll actually be loved and cherished. He gave a bunch of examples of companies that are going strong precisely because they never entered open market.

Well that doesn't make sense. Lots of good game companies have shareholders. Blaming shareholders or anyone who seeks profit for seeking profit is bad. Studios make games for the purpose that it'll make money. ​@@biazacha

Angels

This highlights a deeper problem with how we run our economic system in the world today.

​ @istrumguitars i said it before, just cap everybody's salary to 200k and use the rest of these ceo annual salary and total money stashed away (save maybe a million or two) to fix whatever life they've burned in the process. it would fix a lot without increasing inflation because you wouldn't print any money and it would also stop the housing market from selling house at exhorbitant prices. It would also insure that figure generation like millenial and genZ can actually afford housing and food if you use that money to increase their salary. Those ceo and executive and money people are the ones to blame for it. i don't see why future generation should have to pay for those greedy people, let them pay for it. Sadly, a lot of those people are also in politics, so without retroactive term limit, i don't see a way to change this. People don't needs millions or billions of $ to live a decent life, 200k is enough, with an adjustment for inflation depending on the state/country/currency that is. Also it would have to be done all across the western world, but mostly in north america, including canada and the usa. There is no choice, when 1% of the population have nearly 90% of the money, its either we increase inflation through the roof, and people can't afford anything anymore or we held those responsible for it accountable and force them to liquidate the extra money and asset they don't need. it's sad, but its only viable solution that would increase the buying power of everyone not already making 200k. also, no bonus anymore for anybody either way, just so these money people can't shift all of their incone into bonuses that aren't included in their salary. that's the only way i can on how to fix this mess. The boomers litterally made a mess out of everything, it is their responsible to fix it, and to the next generations to hold them accountable for what they did. period.

That's what happens when people who's only creativity entails screwing people out of money are allowed to run the arts. I can count on one hand the amount of new games I've bought in the last 5-6 years that I actually enjoyed.

@@istrumguitars No, it's a problem of companies becoming too large & having priorities shift. The economic system is incidental.

#BRINGBACKTHESABOTEUR

Very true! Bring back Tenchu! Metal Gear! And other games I can't remember right now.

Some examples for me are The Legend of Dragoon, Dark Cloud/Chronicle Series, KOTOR(which they say is still being remade but its taking decades to complete), Jak and Daxter(they brought back Crash Bandicoot), Summoner Series, etc. There are way more of course, but just throwing some out there. I'm just tired of developers making 1 or 2 games and just moving on and abandoning their fans and these worlds they have created for them.

**Publishers

It’s run by people who understand nothing about gaming

Corporations are quite literally a cancer on the world

The fun fact is that in this exact industry, exponential growth COULD BE possible. It's just the system which is fucked up. With modern hardware and graphics engine people could just work on virtual assets to make game programming much easier and faster so that people could potentially make a masterpiece in months. But why no one is doing this? Because neither virtual assets nor masterpieces are profitable. It is profitable to just milk a franchise which had 2 to 3 masterpieces like 15 to 25 years ago until people from loving it start to hate it. That's what happened with basically every popular franchise except maybe two or three

If the corporate investors stopped being so greedy. A 100% profit would be a god send

That was WB cooking the books to avoid taxes

The actual movie with marketing cost around 400-450 million, theatres will take their cut which is around 30-40%, this still leaves them with around 200 million Dollars. The loss was because they cooked the books to avoid taxes.

Yeah, because movie needs to make like 2.5-3 times its production budget. Part of it is marketing, sure, but there's also theathers and actors' pay which is ridiculous nowadays. It's disgusting and helpless. Edit: actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if making movies is a way for money laundering because those costs are ridiculous.

Most likely is a ML scheme a 5th of the time

Unfortunately to make big money leave gaming, the customers have to not be idiots willing to buy brand loyalty.

Yeah thats unfortunately not going to happen anytime soon if ever.

But big money is the only way to get awesome games like Devil May Cry, Halo 3, Assassins Creed 2, Modern Warfare 2007, GTA San Andreas etc. Indie games aren't capable of making such titles.

@@ninochaosdrache3189those amazing games were made back when their studios were small. Big money came in AFTER those games succeeded

@@ninochaosdrache3189 Yes, they are.

They never will.. MS will just pour money into them just to try to suck talent out of the market, its the only way they can compete.. ..it seems there will always be xbots like a dog cowering in the corner tail tucked, but i swear most of the engagement i see trying to control the narrative, are xbox marketing posing as consumers.. its wild..

Sony and Nintendo aren't much better at this point. Steam it's also just as evil.

Management is only implementing the directives of directors.

@@johndodo2062 At least Sony and Nintendo make great games, something that XBOX didn't manage to do in over 10 years.

@@ninochaosdrache3189*cough* hi-fi rush came out last year *cough*

This is part of the reason AAA can release unfinished and patch later. Gamers preorder and have to wait so long they'll play anything instead of waiting longer and voting with their wallets

But fortnite is objectively a great game, and is the example of how life service Games should be.

I agree with your first two points but consoles have been the “mainstream” method to access games for 30+ years and I don’t really see that changing unless there’s some kind of revolution in access (maybe eventually smart TVs will have enough processing power and/or PCIE + USB ports to hook some simple peripherals up to and game on them natively) because I don’t think PCs will ever become the norm because too many people (especially among the working class) ARE NOT “computer savvy” at all.

@jaythomas468 I know this. However they are also closed loop systems. Consumers do not own their media with the current(and most likely future) console generations. I'm not against consoles as a concept. I'm against them because Sony,Nintendo,M$ have all conditioned their consumers to buy slop after slop every year while they pay more for less. Consoles should be the gateway to gaming. But they are becoming too restrictive.

@@NikolaiMihailov1 I hear you which is why I buy (almost) everything physical, but I generally don’t have too much of a problem paying full-price for games so long as the quality is present since we’ve actually been eating pretty good in terms of having games that offer much, much more potential HOURS than before while MSRP stayed relatively THE SAME. The irony with PC, though, too, is that a lot of people buy and use Steam without question even though Steam is still EFFECTIVELY DRM. But I guess at least on PC, you have “other avenues” if a game becomes inaccessible.

​@@jaythomas468exactly, it's tiring when people cry about console gamers and their evils when embracing Steam since inception with a fervor seen only in cults.

@@Xelliz I don't like steam either. I miss physical media.

We seem to be heading towards that conclusion. Double AA games will inherit the industry

Exactly this!!

Devs have gotten lazy???? My friend, devs these days work like SLAVES just to keep themselves afloat and not get fired... Do some research

This is so true, the bigger a company gets the less efficiënt they work in my experience.

@@TheOriginalMcJunior Video games 15 years ago had less than half the features, were less than 20% of today's games in size, net code has become infinitely bigger in volume and way more complicated since modern games are way more complicated in movement, combat, environments etc... So yeah in terms of staff needed and time needed for development they are way more money hungry... Saying that creating Crash Bandicoot on PS1 costs the same as making a modern AAA game is ridiculously stupid

I’ve been doing it for years. Buy a successful company and shut it down. Put my company there to replace and expand. Rinse and repeat.

Fermi Paradox is a very good allegory, unfortunately

I think you mean dark forest. The fermi paradox asks why when there should be so many alien civilizations don't we see them. The dark forest is merely one suggested answer (as in "The Three Body Problem").

You ask too much from these assholes

Well, i think MS will close their console business, and they will get profit from publishing their majour games on other platforms.

keep the market small, limit competitioners. EA does exactly this since 25 years. As indi-games were on the rise the big players bought them and closed them after a while, has nothing to do with shareholders

Normally speaking your comment would be spot on, but these aren't normal times. The majority of AA studios are already dead, as the creative minds that developed the successful games have all left and their places have been taken by activists and at best second, but more realistically speaking third or even lower tier developers. What the bean counters at Microsoft and other companies that bought the AA studios for prices based on past successes are doing is cutting out the rot: the activists who're just pursuing their agendas instead of developing new games. Why do you think all successful franchises have been mutilated to push agendas instead of offering decent gameplay?

@@tjroelsma a short look and you will see studios that developed Evil within, Dishonored, HiFi-Rush, Prey, a mobile developer etc are closed. None of these showed signs of being woke, sorry. To throw reality over board because being anti-woke is the same psychosis as being woke

And korean games are the future. No Politics.

That's why it's sad why these giant companies buy up all these independent studios. They are getting dragged down with AAA. But yeah, indie is the future.

Amen

I say let it happen, because this industry deserves it.

​@homeaway5418 lmao ok buddy those Koreans can't make a fridge or a dishwasher...

I don't even know why I try to comment in KZfaq sections anymore because KZfaq removes my comment like 95% of the time. And I know for a fact that isn't the KZfaqr trying to control their comment section by blocking certain words. Not allowed to express your opinions on KZfaq positive or negative anymore well at least in the comment section.

​@@YaaSalty...0_osometimes you have to run it through ChatGPT to get it to sound different or screw up the grammar so KZfaq doesn't delete it. Posting KZfaq comments is too much work now.

The entire model needs to go. Top ➡️Bottom Left ▶️ Right And everything outside of it.

Correction AAA gaming is dead indie gaming is not.

Exactly, i hope Xbox and MS keeps firing all the great talent they have locked up working on projects they were promised they would never have to, Phil in the media talking about letting creativity thrive hands off style, and then make Arcane make a looter shooter with flipping vampires written by their DEI outside consultants.. bleech.

Nice point, the bright side of layoffs, really good thinking dude!

The problem of people are losing jobs because of dickhead shareholders and CEOs

At the moment, the only fucking thing I'm mourning from AAA gaming and Xbox's protracted death is Tango Gameworks getting royally screwed and the painful thought that we won't see any more Hi-Fi Rush content... well, Hi-Fi Rush content that isn't a soulless cash-grab, anyway.

I noticed you mentioned "timeline" do you subscribe to the CERN timeline jump? Something is off. Not sure if it was a Thanos snap or a timeline jump but something happened.

@@dandee6331 no, just a turn of phrase to say that I hate what is going on now and wish it was different.

@julilla1 oh well there is a theory that is out there that we are not on the same timeline we were on 4-5 years ago....I have heard others discuss it. I mean shit is so weird now I am not ruling anything out.

Thanos is literal fictional character

Although something does seem off. Could be me though

Detroit Become Human is such a masterpiece. This is the game that pushed my to invest into the ps4 ecosystem. I still dont own a current gen console. I’m waiting.

@@johnbartender3451 I love Detroit Become Human, I’ve played it multiple times. I don’t really have anything modern to compare it too, but the PS5 graphics are amazing.

I had and still have two PS2 consoles, other one got broke at summer cottage during a lightning storm, I was extremely salty indeed! I've been on Xbox since the first Xbox and now planning to get the coming PS5 pro console whenever it arrives, so I'm probably returning to Playstation immediately after few decades!

Good for you

Welcome to the club, Lady :)

Yeeees sir

nek minute, the cult who destroyed AAA will come after AA, Larry Fink will make sure of that.

No they aren't, the vast majority of indie games never make money. Only like 1% are profitable. Lots of indie companies go out of business daily, you just don't hear about them because they were never successful enough to garner attention to begin with.

Weird my comment is gone

​@justwait9822 First, citation needed. Second, if true, I'm not concerned. The barrier of entry for game design is very low indeed these days. Everyone and their grandma can create some low-effort slop with pre-made assets and publish it. This slop outnumbers good games by several orders of magnitude. The good games largely succeed. The slop largely fails, as expected.

Nice list.

Yep all bangers

Elden Ring

No one is good to me

But Indies also just can't compete with AAA games. I've yet to see an indie game that is on the same level as Halo 3, GTA San Andreas, Assassins Creed 2, Dishonored or Devil May Cry. They just can't compete.

@@ninochaosdrache3189 Not to mention far more indie companies fail then succeed.

Mobile Gamers are being farmed for cash more than any other though?

I agree with everything except the mobile game thing. Indie games, actual indie games made by independent studios and not a game that looks like an indie game made by a aaa studio, are where the future is. Indie studios will rise from the ashes of these massive aaa studios when they burn to the ground and the developers who have been trapped will take their place to reinvent gaming as we knew it in the 70's 80's and 90's.

Yikes... you correctly identified the problem, and then came to the conclusion that "only mobile games are left."

Only mobiles left? what a joke mobile games are p2win, also its only for casual gamers

Mobile games are so horribly bad that I simply installed a PSX emulator in my phone and called it a day.

Yup, they chose political brainwashing instead of making what players want

This, exactly, the moment a studio sells itself, it's pretty much dead.

Correct.

But that isn't Tango's fault they were always a AA Japanese developer who made great games people loved. Zenimax bought their parent company Bethesda then Microsfot bought Zenimax which is obvious now all they really wanted from the deal was Starfield, Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Tango already had the innovative title HiFi rush pretty much already made at that time and despite it succeeding in the words of Microsoft in all key measurements. Microsoft canned them anyway probably because they didn't fit what the suits and corpos at Microsoft wanted from the deal in the first place. I even suspect people at Xbox were annoyed HiFi Rush did so well because games like that aren't what they want on their system going forward.

@@JamieJonesanimator that's untrue tango was its own studio that was founded in may 2010. They ran into money issues and bethesda came to their aid and asked zenimax to buy them in oct 2010. They sold out to a corporation in order to pay the bills. Totally understandable but they still sold their ability to determine their own fate and hitched their cart to zenimax.The sad thing is they started a company that couldn't keep the lights on for a whole year before running out of cash and needing to sell out. They were then included in the deal going to microsoft but that doesn't make them any less responsible for selling out to corpos like zenimax in the first place. They became a commodity to be bought and sold or shut down at the whims of their masters at that point.

Yep, the monopoly game was always the goal of capitalism.

That reminds me the hosts on Kinda Funny and Cog on Last Stand Media were all for indies selling their studios and getting a bag full of money.

Not wrong 😅

Yep gaming is just fine as far as im concerned as a PC player. Not enough time to play all the emulatable classics anyway

@@Days_of_the_Righteous That's true and sad at the same time, because it essentially makes you feel powerless against the whole process. No matter how hard our stance might be, we just getting beaten by the sheer numbers behind gatcha/mobile games. Stakeholders will naturally lean towards forcing game studios to implement systems that encourage that type of models and economies, but thankfully we are seeing the opposite also whereas small indies and sometimes even solos capable of shipping full fledged ambitious and original games that do reach big audiences. The growth of AI + democratisation of tech and communication / marketing is an absolute game changer that's already shaking up the balance.

@@Days_of_the_Righteous yeah totally, i like revisiting old classics the same way but the funny part is that the industry noticed that trend and started capitalizing on the nostalgia factor as well, just looking at the recent years and the number of remakes we had.. there is always this stinky smell about those, even if they are technically sound and in every objective game metric superior to their original, there is just this lingering smell of greed and overmarketing that surround the whole thing, makes me sick.

@@Days_of_the_Righteous absolutely this is truth coming out, soulless that's the best word to describe it as you mentionned. I had RE4 and Deadspace in mind when typing, and i have a very complicated relationship still with 7 Rebirth provided 7 R-1 was a pile of bullcrap designed to trap you in a trilogy for again more profit, but how foolish of me to forget about all the absolute dumpsterfire of remakes they made alongside AND still doing in other forms like when they butchered the entire Kratos legacy to made him look like a mortal boomer about to retire, the jedi games and upcoming joke outlaws, the list goes on and on it's endless

@@Days_of_the_Righteous the remake of demon souls was so crappy and egregious that i couldn't physically spend more than an hour on that game before uninstalling it and never looking at it again, just pretending that it never existes to this day

​@@snaykerX Christ! I hate that they took that hot model and butchered her face. Same with the model for MJ in Spider-Man 2. She looks like lord Farquade with that giant, ugly chin.

Soon to be not anymore. Big companies are buying them out and then shutting them down.

Then the passionate developers quit and start their own studio.

@@eddieford9373 They can only buy if the indies sell. More and more it's clear than selling your soul to big corps is a massive mistake.

I like how you are trying to mitigate your responsibility and make yourself feel better by pretending that _everyone_ behaved like you've been behaving for the last fifteen years. If you've finally seen the light, then I absolutely congratulate you, but there have been many of us who have not in any way supported the ruination of our beloved hobby. Just not near enough of us.

I never owned a 360 sooo no I’m not to blame

​@@bricaaron3978​I'm being facetious

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan If you were pretending to be part of the problem in order to make your message more palatable, then great. My comment will stand for the 80% of game buyers who have been rushing to throw Top Dollar year after year.

​@@bricaaron3978imagine coping so hard that you have to resort to self-righteousness like this to feel more virtuous, instead of just accepting the simple fact that your individual virtue is meaningless and that systemic problems require systemic solutions. Not buying things doesn't magically make the problem go away. Regulating corporations does.

Stfu about eastern devs... 🙄 they are exactly the same, you think they produce only gems? Mgs survive, Pokémon, ace combat those games have died.

@@mitri5389 I didn't say they only produce gems. I said they allow for creativity and variety to thrive. Regardless of quality, which is the point. They still pump out tons of non-major IP games, taking risks. Paranormasight, Little Goody Two Shoes, new SaGa game, Exoprimal, Pragmata, Kunitsu-Gami, new Atelier games, new Rot3K games, etc. all came out in the past year or will be coming out.

Ray... Man? What's a Rayman?

@@miguelcondadoolivar5149 😥

@@kalega311 It's just a name I haven't read in a long time. I miss him and I despise the rabbids.

*"I've never felt more infuriated and depressed, the way these corporations are behaving"* That's interesting. I've never felt more infuriated and depressed over the way my fellow "gamers" have been behaving for the last fifteen years. You know what it takes for garbage business practices to thrive? _Business._ (I.e. lots of customers rushing to throw top dollar.)

@@bricaaron3978 Ok. Can't really disagree with that tbh.

Yep, game industry issues is just a larger reflection of the entire financial/economic system becoming unsustainable.

The title does say Triple A in the brackets.

Its Helldivers 2

@@Pandaconda69 I went I and purchased it straight away and absolutely love it!

I remember when $40 was only for the top tier AAAA games. And that was considered pricy. AND you got a hardcopy you could install from. Now you pay $60+ to download something that could be taken away for no cause and no recompenses a short while later and with to high a chance it's buggy crap.

Or a game you’re sure that you’ll have to buy at least two DLCs later….. no way I’m burning 100 bucks on a mess full of bugs and worst gameplay than the previous titles of the same franchise.

It's not that there weren't good games, it's that the big companies did massive layoffs. So yes, it is failing, if you think you can't keep your employees in you company.

They're extracting western wealth so that when the globocommunist shift hits, the corporations will be in position to remain in power in perpetuity. And the socialists are eating it up.

Not our problem. That's a game company/investor/publisher problem.

@@anorouch I'm not defending the gaming industry in any way. I was trying to nudge people into educating themselves, especially youtube pundits who are suppossed to inform people of what's happening in the enternainment industry and not spread misinformation and look like fools.

What a masterpiece! 🎸

Who's actually acknowledging a huge part of your audience going to ruin the industry?

ESG and DEI are actually good principles that encourage environmental responsibility and acceptance and fairness. Of course right wingers hate those things and want to pollute and discriminate.

​@@anna-flora999If it's such a massive part of their audience that wants this how come it's failed at every turn

@@shadowwolf8434 maybe because the games in general just suck, and would have sucked just as much with an all white cishet male cast

​@@nick8243 The ideas can be nice, the implementation, not so much.

Public companies are there to be mined for their value. It is not sustainable.

People playing gamers don’t give a shit about politics, agenda, wokeness, whatever. Just a loud minority goes around crying about it, if a title is satisfying to play and offer an unique experience, that’s all that matters.

Most of the better games today are from Europe.