discussion Anyone enjoying the spectacle that is the video game industry collapsing under its own weight?

[Boredman]

Somewhat sad that it got to this state in the first place but also happy that everything is breaking.

 

[ArtoriasABW]

I'm hearing often about how the Studios are closing, devs are getting fired, games are not fun anymore, and the doom of game industry is coming.

Personally I'm just seeing a shift in power, while some big studios are losing audiences due to bad launches, other independent studios are coming to prominence with some really good games, just this year we've seen the rise of Pocketpair, Arrowhead and Shift Up as potential big studios who can take the lead in the future.

 

[Sertinus]

Sad & humorous at the same time

 

[stangnomez]

The good and semi-ethical companies will survive. The trash will crash and burn from all the garbage they have tried to shovel down our throats for the past decade.

I got bad news for you...

 

[Scales]

"Enjoy" would be the wrong term, as there is a long line of titles I really loved, where future sequels are falling flat. Whole IPs getting abandoned....

It's just kind of sad.

 

[Castell]

It's always a pleasure to see stupid decisions get their deserved results, but it turns out very sad when you think about the number of really good fallen IP's and the masive amount of people who's lossing their jobs for things they don't have a word in.

 

[stangnomez]

The people responsible for the massive pile of shit that is the games industry and the people who will suffer as a result of the collapse are two entirely separate groups of people.

 

[User_48178]

Enjoying? No, video games got me through a lot of hard times as a kid and I am not happy to see the industry falling apart. Watching with the same morbid fascination as someone watching a train wreck? Absolutely. This was inevitable once developers started listening to the "Gamers Are Dead" crowd and literally everyone warned them what would happen. They stuck their dick in the outlet and now they get to face the consequences.

 

[iframe]

Don't really care much for the brand names and giants.
We're in the midst of a renaissance for indie games. Those kinda replace the big titles.

 

[magicace]

This is why I generally don't buy AAA games until they're reviewed, patched, reviewed again, and on sale. Yeah, I'm playing games from 2021-2022, but it's saves me a ton of headache and money.
It breaks my heart when I see hyped-up games absolutely shit the bed, but I refuse to partake in the sludge that befalls a lot of AAA titles. I learned my lesson from "No Mans Sky" (which is much better now).

I hope all these colossal failures teach them a lesson in design and what the gamers expect. if you want me paying top dollar for a game, you'd better make sure it's polished and worth my money.

The Talos Principle 2 came out recently and I was actually nervous to pay for it because it was only $40 on day 1. I figured something had to be wrong with it, or it was a short game, or reviews would be terrible. But nope... just a smaller dev company not screwing over the players. Phenomenal game, and it's super long. I bought the DLC yesterday on day 1. Happy to give them my money for that type of quality.

 

[uncleben28]

I love to see when big publishers are shooting themselves in the foot over and over but then again they still make millions of gamers so ppl are not voting with their wallets really