• GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    To put it bluntly, if they make something I want to buy, I’ll participate, but this live service shit isn’t anything I want to buy, so.

    They’ll learn eventually, I don’t care what they make. It’s all mostly cookie cutter garbage. Support devs going against the grain like GSC and indie devs. Let AAA die. What’s it alive for, constant disappointment?

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      1 day ago

      Let AAA die.

      I don’t give a shit generally about AAA games but the value of having large stable game development studios goes beyond the direct games they create, this is a crucial stepping stone for would be indie game development studio founders detonated and destroyed and mark my words the collapse of stable, consistent employment in the game development industry will play right into a brutal deleveraging of worker’s negotiating power and lead to further consolidation in the industry around AAA studios that have to try less and less hard (and pay their developers less and less) because very few indie studios will be able to weather these manufactured and designed shocks to the system.

      This is the same old strategy cut throat robber barons/capitalist oligarchs always use to steal from workers.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      This. There are very few major games that remotely get my attention nowadays. I’ve spend most of my gaming time and money on indies