Comment on Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty"

TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• wirelesswire@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There’s a difference between being unhappy about a game and making your voice heard to the studio/publisher responsible, and singling out individuals who worked on the game to harass. This happens a lot with voice actors being targeted because people don’t like their performance, despite them just doing what the voice director told them to do.

  There’s also a difference between saying “I don’t like ____” or “this game sucks” versus “I’m glad you got laid off, serves you right” or straight-up death threats. Just like the VAs, the development staff were working at the direction of the lead/director, who were possibly working at the direction of the publisher, so directing vitriol towards individuals is likely not productive, on top of being cruel. You are certainly allowed to make your opinion heard, but don’t be an asshole about it.

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  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yanno, that’s a fair line to have.

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• Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think they make a valid point that there’s a difference between critique and criticism.

  $70 is a lot to spend on a game for most people, so people want to feel they got their money’s worth, but you have to admit that the internet does have a bad habit of turning everything into hyperbole.

  Still, a company with a multiple million dollar budget should be able to produce something truly amazing, especially when there’s indie devs and publishers that make truly memorable gems for what’s a comparatively shoestring budget.

  If the big companies want to have more critiques and less criticism, perhaps they should start listening to players instead of producers.

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  • LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    People could avoid paying $70 for bad games by not preordering. Like seriously, it takes maybe two hours after release for the criticism to start pouring in.

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    • Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      With physical copies of games essentially being non-existent, there is absolutely no point in pre-ordering a game. Hold on to your money, and wait for reviews.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  NES games cost $60-$70 nearly 40 years ago. That would be like $150 if adjusted for inflation.

  And if anything, the scale and cost of developing video games has skyrocketed since then…

  Just something to consider…

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  • termus@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Back when you also got a physical product with an instruction manual and possibly a poster or something else. Now we get a digital license and yay.

    Just something to consider…

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And 40 years ago the federal minimum wage was $3.35, which adjusts to $9.89 today. Inflation for businesses isn’t an excuse when the inflation for consumers isn’t keeping up.

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  • Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’ve purchased many games at $40 or less over the past year that have given me hundred of hours of joy and entertainment.

    If I spend almost twice that price on a game, and it’s unfinished, buggy, and heavily monetized; you can bet your ass I’m going to be upset.

    It’s not about the cost of development. It’s about quality of the experience. For indie devs, the game has to be good to do well. For a lot of AAA studios, the game is merely a product that only has to be as entertaining as it needs to be for them to make enough profit.

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  • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    if we accept 70€ then they increase the price to 80€. when we accept that they increase it to 90€ and so on. Though i guess this becomes kind of moot point when high price on game has started to correlate with lower quality on every aspect except graphics.

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  • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The cost of developing games hasn’t skyrocketed. Developers have more means than ever. Many things that was handcrafted on crappy slow computers then are auto-generated in seconds now.

    There’s no massive shipping costs or printing of physical mediums anymore. And no losses if the already printed cassettes or CD’s didn’t sell.

    If a game costs hundreds of millions to develop, in this day and age, it’s by design and/or because of bloated companies.

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