Comment on Anon pitches a new game

Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Moreover, like Hollywood, the gaming industry is largely run by people who truly do not understand the thing they’re there to make. All of the C-levels still think it’s the early 2000s where you could shit out anything that looked like a popular game and make 20 billion dollars from it. They think their entire market is dumb kids who will mindlessly play whatever is put in front of them without regard to polish, story, or even playability.

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And the market proves it’s true.

    How in the hell is EA still not dead?

    Many studios produce barely acceptable shit, yet people buy it in droves.

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How in the hell is EA still not dead?

      Sports games

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        WHY DO PEOPLE BUY THAT??!

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    • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seems to be the basis for 90% of the economy at this point.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      EA is a publisher that goes against that, bad example to use

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t know what you mean.

        Every sports game is barely an asset flip, sometimes even with wrong years.

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And chasing trends when it can take up 5 years or more to complete a project is utterly moronic.

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stephanie Sterling has been saying this for so many years, and it’s only getting worse. at least in the “”“AAA”“” space.

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been a fan since The Escapist days

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I started watching shortly after the escapist… thank god for her!

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• Niiru@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because sometimes that’s all it takes… See dayz vs pubg vs h1z1 (vs original fortnite to some extend). Or valorant vs overwatch (and csgo to an extend).

  Spins with just a little bit of change can be a massive success.

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That “little bit of change” is what these greedy cunts don’t get, though. You need creativity for that too work.

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