How Greed Ruined Gaming

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Read the title as "greed ruined gambling" and thought we might get a harrowing tale of gabi losing it all at the Las Vegas slots

just FYI, john ratatouille is not the CEO of unity anymore. He "stepped down" after the Unity runtime fee debacle last year

the sims team youtube channel has a community page where they talk about updates to the game, new items, new packs, etc. but most of the comments under those posts go along the lines of “wow thats great! fix the game.” it honestly makes me so mad just how greedy these big gaming companies are.

No joke a Blizzard manager just suggested that the industry should make a tipping system for developers. Like tell me you don't want to pay your workers without telling me you don't want to pay your workers.

It really goes to show how shitty the gaming industry has gotten when Baldur’s Gate 3 won so many rewards and, yet, set a ton of “unrealistic standards” according to other grimey companies when all Larian did was release a complete game and put tons of energy, time, and love into the game. I absolutely love the game and the amount of awards it won were so deserved. They simply just reminded other companies how games used to be and that scared the other scum of the industry.

Can we also gripe about the horrible horrible lack of couch co-op these days? My husband and I live in the same house but need to buy most games TWICE to play together and are expected to have TWO consoles with TWO yearly subscriptions!! It’s so stupid!!! So we just never get to play anything together anymore

On celebrating indie games, gabi didnt mention them but Hades and Dredge are some of the coolest experiences ive ever had gaming

big companies do not care about us. and its such a weird thought of ''why would you sell this, yet nobody buys it, just so your stakeholders are happy and then complain when it does not sell''

Ubisoft more like Ubistupid

This is why I love Stardew. Concerned Ape keeps releasing incredible new content for the game, totally free of charge. And the game is less than half of the price of a AAA game.

I think the fact that Helldivers 2, a game that got so popular there were server issues for the first month or so, was only forty dollars, and got released in a basically finished state, is one of the reasons I still play it today.

I'm in my 40s and I remember this is exactly how NES games were in the 80s, and independent game magazines debuted as a way to worn consumers about the unplayable garbage being pumped into stores. A sort of "game journalism" if you will, because the concept was new and parents didn't know any better. This is why my family mostly rented game cartridges and only bought the game if it was good.

Stardew Valley (Concerned Ape) also just released a significant update to the game. For free. 8 years after launch. It is excellent. That’s why it’s made $300,000,000.

Fun roller coaster tycoon fact: It was written in a language so basic that it could run on anything no matter what, ergo the strategy of putting it everywhere as a demo meant that people could see it ran on their system perfectly fine, even if their system was ancient. THAT is beyond what Triple A studios do now.

My most played game is Factorio. One time purchase, can play offline, small install size, official mod support for lots of replayability, and devs that actually listen to feedback and interact with the community. They even hired a mod maker to turn the mod into a full fledged expansion.

a significant reason why games need so many gigabytes nowadays is due to the textures they use, since especially higher quality textures need a lot of space and often when you download a game it installs every texture quality from lowest to the highest taking the maximum amount of space. it does make it easier and faster to change the texture quality from the settings but with the added cost of requiring a lot more space.

I have no shame in admitting that every Ubisoft game I've ever played was acquired sailing the seven seas

I think you nailed it. We just need the gaming community to: 1) STOP PREORDERING! Don't pay money for the promise of a product. Wait for release and balanced reviews. 2) Stop equating open world with good game. Huge open spaces filled with nothing but scenery or irrelevant and tedious tasks is not actual gameplay. 3) Stop defending crappy practices. This is best done with your wallet but also going online to defend microtransactions or crappy dlc that should have been included in the original release, that needs to stop happening. We need to be willing to push back on crappy practices and say we don't give a damn about your shareholders (publicly traded companies suck) and refuse to fund companies that don't care. Over in Total War Warhammer, we pushed back on their new crappy dlc policy so successfully that we actually won. The next dlc is looking great and they added additional content to the previous shamefully overpriced dlc. It's possible to make things change, we just need to be willing to fight for it and maybe sacrifice not getting to play the latest call of assassin's mon hyper remake 3.

The PS2 was the golden era of gaming. They managed to stuff as much content as they could fit into a compact disc you owned, with a finished full offline game, additional game modes, online multiplayer and unlockables without installing anything. For less than $60. I had a 8mb memory card with more than 10 games saved on it.