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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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  How in the hell is EA still not dead?
  
  Sports games
  
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  - msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    WHY DO PEOPLE BUY THAT??!
    
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    mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The same reason there aren’t bear-proof trash cans. There’s a lot of overlap in intelligence levels between people and bears
    
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- Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Seems to be the basis for 90% of the economy at this point.
  
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- ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  EA is a publisher that goes against that, bad example to use
  
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  - msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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    ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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
    
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Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
And chasing trends when it can take up 5 years or more to complete a project is utterly moronic.

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