Profit is more important to these chucklefucks than the customers happiness, their loyalty, the staff that make the product, hell, even the product they’re selling… This includes your life; profit is more important than your life. If they can bump their quarterly earnings with you doing something dangerous that turns you into a fucking grease stain, they’ll fucking do it. They’re psychopaths.
Only because of laws does any company do “the right thing”. Everything else they do is to reduce expenses, or increase profits.
They wouldn’t try to make the next fortnite, if fortnite didn’t make its creators disgusting amounts of money. Games wouldn’t become micro transaction hell if microtransactions didn’t rake in shitloads of cash steadily.
Video Games are simply their tool to extract the maximum possible value they can from you. First it was stupid one-off horse cosmetics, then it was paid DLC, then they started shipping half of a game before it was ready (cutting dev costs so they could get their payout faster), then releasing paid “DLC” which was the rest of the fucking game… To now, when we have little more than an idea, some mechanics, and somewhat unique art design before the streaming pile that they call a game gets to be “released”, and they’ll literally add everything later.
Look at halo. Let’s use it as a case study. The original game had its share of problems on release, but it was at least pretending to be a full game when it came out. Full single player and multi player, with a fully fleshed out campaign, complete with working cutscenes. Halo 2 followed a similar path, for the most part… Eventually, the Halo dev team became beholden to the almighty shareholder and now we have halo infinite with an infinite amount of bullshit and no single player campaign… Unless you want to pay extra for it, or for these skins, or for… You get the idea.
I played, and liked Halo. I fell away from it after Halo 2/3 due to life stuff, and at this point, I picked up the matter chief collection for the nostalgia, but that’s probably the last money I’m putting into the franchise. I just can’t be bothered. It was good while it lasted.
Halo is hardly unique in this. I only used them as an example because it was easy. I could have also used Diablo…
Part of the reason that happened with Halo is because Bungie lost the IP to Microsoft when they separated. Everything after Halo 3 was done by another studio that was part of M$. I believe it was called 343 Studios or something like that.
My intention wasn’t so much to dispute your claim rather than to give context as to why it happened. Really the core of the issue is the fact that Microsoft was able to take the rights from Bungie at all.
Most of the shit in our lives comes from these massive corporations just hoovering up all the smaller entities so there’s less choice for the consumer.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
This one, right here OP.
Capitalism is, at its core: Profits > all
Profit is more important to these chucklefucks than the customers happiness, their loyalty, the staff that make the product, hell, even the product they’re selling… This includes your life; profit is more important than your life. If they can bump their quarterly earnings with you doing something dangerous that turns you into a fucking grease stain, they’ll fucking do it. They’re psychopaths.
Only because of laws does any company do “the right thing”. Everything else they do is to reduce expenses, or increase profits.
They wouldn’t try to make the next fortnite, if fortnite didn’t make its creators disgusting amounts of money. Games wouldn’t become micro transaction hell if microtransactions didn’t rake in shitloads of cash steadily.
Video Games are simply their tool to extract the maximum possible value they can from you. First it was stupid one-off horse cosmetics, then it was paid DLC, then they started shipping half of a game before it was ready (cutting dev costs so they could get their payout faster), then releasing paid “DLC” which was the rest of the fucking game… To now, when we have little more than an idea, some mechanics, and somewhat unique art design before the streaming pile that they call a game gets to be “released”, and they’ll literally add everything later.
Look at halo. Let’s use it as a case study. The original game had its share of problems on release, but it was at least pretending to be a full game when it came out. Full single player and multi player, with a fully fleshed out campaign, complete with working cutscenes. Halo 2 followed a similar path, for the most part… Eventually, the Halo dev team became beholden to the almighty shareholder and now we have halo infinite with an infinite amount of bullshit and no single player campaign… Unless you want to pay extra for it, or for these skins, or for… You get the idea.
I played, and liked Halo. I fell away from it after Halo 2/3 due to life stuff, and at this point, I picked up the matter chief collection for the nostalgia, but that’s probably the last money I’m putting into the franchise. I just can’t be bothered. It was good while it lasted.
Halo is hardly unique in this. I only used them as an example because it was easy. I could have also used Diablo…
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Enshittification. Image
Aspharr@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Part of the reason that happened with Halo is because Bungie lost the IP to Microsoft when they separated. Everything after Halo 3 was done by another studio that was part of M$. I believe it was called 343 Studios or something like that.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Yeah. The point doesn’t really change from this fact though.
Aspharr@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My intention wasn’t so much to dispute your claim rather than to give context as to why it happened. Really the core of the issue is the fact that Microsoft was able to take the rights from Bungie at all.
Most of the shit in our lives comes from these massive corporations just hoovering up all the smaller entities so there’s less choice for the consumer.