I’m not sure even that would fix it. It’s clearly a capitalism-needs-to-learn-what-actually-makes-games-good problem. Unionization might be the real-world fix, but I’m worried that, even with that, getting a company to create unique games that are fun and high value to gamers could be out of purview.
It’s a money-people in charge problem, the same way that money-people are in charge of things like healthcare. I’m really not sure that unionizing a publicly traded company will have more effect than just changing who is being told what medical procedures are authorized, or in gaming’s case: what decisions to implement to make the investors more money.
And now that this structure has been in place long enough and has gotten so ingrained in the surrounding structures, like education and standard business practices and expectations, and also in culture, it’s going to take more than unionization. Maybe if the whole industry suddenly unionized and had a very clear goal of telling the bean counters to collectively fuck off, but good luck with that happening. We’d all like to see that happen.
Appeal to the authority you give yourself based on *past experience (leave out any negative past experience) *religious/spiritual “insight” can be a substitute here
Present an ambitious “vision” that claims to require said past experience to fully grasp
Allow your targets to start building the product in their imagination based on the crumbs you gave them with step 2
Sell disjointed tangential products that don’t interfere with the player’s dream logic and promise they will connect to your cohesive vision with time
Find “technical delays”
Express that you need backers to buy more of the dream to help get through the “technical delays”
Repeat for 9 years until the market begins to retract
Open the dream up to asian markets
???
Profit
All it requires is being a soulless piece of shit.
ARC Raiders is definitely of the “life-consuming live-service” multiplayer games in my view, same as Helldivers 2. Basically anything that is live-service, since it demands you play continually or otherwise miss out on timed events.
I hope multiplayer non-live service games are the sort of casual FPS that is making a comeback, a la Space Marine 2.
I feel almost the exact opposite; I can jump into Helldivers 2 as if I’d never left and keep on playing but trying to play Space Marine 2 now feels like I’m constantly behind everyone else and trying to catch up.
I guess for me I’d feel like I’ve read about all these cool events in HD2, and they’re gone and done and I can’t replay them, because they were live events only.
Compare that to something like Mabinogi (which is still an MMO, but doesn’t follow the same live-service philosophy), where you can start as a first-time player today, and still play through every campaign/ storyline since its ~2003 release (and there are a LOT of them).
I think that depends on the way you play. You can lose everything pretty quickly by getting swarmed from a few low level bots or someone shooting you in the back. Which at least for me makes it feel not that casual.
The game does try and match you based on aggressiveness so if you chill and don’t shoot other players you’ll filter into the nicer lobbies although you still never know if the person next to you will choose that day to decide and PvP. Its famous for people to send the ‘don’t shoot’ emote then as soon as you turn to walk away they shoot you
Making the matter even more frustrating is the fact that Horses is apparently quite good—or at least, it accomplishes what it sets out to do. The content is decidedly uncomfortable but reviews and reactions on social media are largely positive
Horses is not low-effort, throwaway trash, but rather a game that genuinely seeks to provoke consideration and conversations.
Exactly, bringing in all the feces and dirt and gravel and everything else from outside in the streets. So nasty. Like okay, if you live your life in your shoes and you take them off only to shower and sleep, even that is… workable, if that suits you. I don’t understand it, but fine. But laying your shoes on your bed? 🤮
I don’t think so. It’s unlikely, but not implausible. I don’t think ICE have a list of “don’t arrest” people, and not everyone knows what every CEO looks like. They might run into him randomly and just act on it.
I don’t think Satya Nadal is going out in public like regular people, but it could still happen.
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