Comment on Every game developer company should be like this
traveler01@lemdro.id 2 years ago
They’re all like that until investors get involved.
You’d like to think that, but there’s a lot of people who got into gaming for the wrong reasons (making a lot of money. Fame) and not the right reason (I want to make something awesome that people enjoy).
There are definitely good people in the industry, but there are a number of devs (designers and managers) who only care about the bottom line or money. They’ll think huge profits mean they’ll get massive bonuses, and ignore how the product will be received.
True, not all investors are bad, just greedy people can ruin everything.
I’m looking forward to people supporting open source game development, like actually paying the wages of Dev teams to produce content for the community - we’d have some amazing games come from that
The best games have budgets of millions of dollars, so very hard to do that.
Fortunately the majority shareholder said he has no intention of selling for this exact reason.
Yup. Which is why I look at things like these and the words that comes to mind is - “for now”.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 years ago
Most Sony exclusives are exactly this way as well.
It’s typically when multiplayer gets involved that the investors start rubbing their hands together.
traveler01@lemdro.id 2 years ago
Some single players, specially ones made by Ubisoft are becoming absolute money grabbers as well. Gran Turismo 7 was also a bit disappointing since they are also selling the virtual currency for actual money, while forcing you to grind a lot.
Ser_Salty@feddit.de 2 years ago
There are more armor sets in Assassin’s Creed Valhallas premium store than are in the base game
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 years ago
Thing is I played some of the recent Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry games, and I noticed them holding the begging bowl out, but much like with Mass Effect 3 (which was the first place I saw this), I can’t work out who it’s targeting.
Just basic playing of the game and the actual main and side story content (and I’m not grinding repeatable quests or doing randomly generated content dotted all over AC Odyssey’s map) will get you everything you need to finish it, and leave you with giant piles of resources left over. Just who is buying this?
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I think there’s an absurdly rich demographic out there that just wants the “skip” items for a strange sense of prestige. They’re not very logical people, and some would argue they probably didn’t earn their millions.