And chasing trends when it can take up 5 years or more to complete a project is utterly moronic.
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Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 days agoMoreover, 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.
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 days ago
msage@programming.dev 4 days 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.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Sports games
msage@programming.dev 3 days ago
WHY DO PEOPLE BUY THAT??!
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The same reason there aren’t bear-proof trash cans. There’s a lot of overlap in intelligence levels between people and bears
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Seems to be the basis for 90% of the economy at this point.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
EA is a publisher that goes against that, bad example to use
msage@programming.dev 2 days ago
I don’t know what you mean.
Every sports game is barely an asset flip, sometimes even with wrong years.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Most recently Split Fiction would be an example of not trend chasing
Unraveled, Fe, the rest of Hazelight’s games, Knockout city
The Sims and the sports games also aren’t trend chasing