Budgets and team sizes could be slashed in half and the only thing we'd have to sacrifice for it are autistic levels of graphical detail that have never ever been necessary as anything other than a lure.
Gaming could go back in time 10 years and retain nothing more than the modern quality of life improvements to controls and UI, and literally nothing of value would be lost.
100%. Studios went from talented game developers creating fun things to data nerds who make game adjustment based on tableau visuals.
Even if you get a game that’s awesome, the data nerds will fuck it up in a few months. They’ll change the TTK, remove the maps you liked, remove the game mode you liked, they refuse to let a game live. If they’re not changing it they can’t justify their jobs.
The absolute bullshit with AAA console titles like Battlefield 5 and COD are why I quit console entirely and went to PC. Consoles possess the dumbest developers and customers I’ve ever seen in my life. Going from console to PC is like leaving a preschool day care and going to a country club.
Game industry: We're concerned about piracy.
Also game industry: Let's use the media to get people used to the idea of 70 dollar game with MT's. What could possibly go wrong?
When I’d buy NES and SNES games in the late 80s and early 90s they were $60-$70. Back then a McDonald’s combo meal was $3, you could buy a pop for 50 cents, and a bag of chips was 35 cents.
35 years later, In 2020 video games are still $60. A McDonald’s combo meal is $9, a pop is $1.25, and chips are $1.00.
The price of everything has pretty much tripled in 40 years but games remain the same. Adjusted for inflation they are the cheapest they’ve ever been since becoming mass produced.
It’s amazing how people bitch about them costing too much. They literally get cheaper every year.
It’s like when people complain when gas keeps going up every year but, supposedly, when adjusted for inflation it’s been pretty consistent in price.
Though I 100% agree when consumers say ‘you want game development to cost less? Stop putting so much of your budget into non-gameplay things like graphics’
Perfectly evitable, don't buy those games, the excuses are pathetic for a game that's released/updated every year.
Budgets and team sizes could be slashed in half and the only thing we'd have to sacrifice for it are autistic levels of graphical detail that have never ever been necessary as anything other than a lure.
Gaming could go back in time 10 years and retain nothing more than the modern quality of life improvements to controls and UI, and literally nothing of value would be lost.
100%. Studios went from talented game developers creating fun things to data nerds who make game adjustment based on tableau visuals.
Even if you get a game that’s awesome, the data nerds will fuck it up in a few months. They’ll change the TTK, remove the maps you liked, remove the game mode you liked, they refuse to let a game live. If they’re not changing it they can’t justify their jobs.
The absolute bullshit with AAA console titles like Battlefield 5 and COD are why I quit console entirely and went to PC. Consoles possess the dumbest developers and customers I’ve ever seen in my life. Going from console to PC is like leaving a preschool day care and going to a country club.
If a game's worth $70 I'll spend $70 on it. I just haven't seen a game WORTH that much in an exceedingly long time.
Game industry: We're concerned about piracy.
Also game industry: Let's use the media to get people used to the idea of 70 dollar game with MT's. What could possibly go wrong?
With most the companies that can make use of next gen hardware losing their minds even having a next gen isn't inevitable
When I’d buy NES and SNES games in the late 80s and early 90s they were $60-$70. Back then a McDonald’s combo meal was $3, you could buy a pop for 50 cents, and a bag of chips was 35 cents.
35 years later, In 2020 video games are still $60. A McDonald’s combo meal is $9, a pop is $1.25, and chips are $1.00.
The price of everything has pretty much tripled in 40 years but games remain the same. Adjusted for inflation they are the cheapest they’ve ever been since becoming mass produced.
It’s amazing how people bitch about them costing too much. They literally get cheaper every year.
Yeah, I don’t really get it either.
It’s like when people complain when gas keeps going up every year but, supposedly, when adjusted for inflation it’s been pretty consistent in price.
Though I 100% agree when consumers say ‘you want game development to cost less? Stop putting so much of your budget into non-gameplay things like graphics’