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>where at times developers appeared afraid of their audience Good. The amount of abuse the gaming industry has heaped upon consumers the past ten years is alm

>where at times developers appeared afraid of their audience Good. The amount of abuse the gaming industry has heaped upon consumers the past ten years is almost beyond belief. Microtransactions. Day-1 DLC. Season Passes that don't include all the DLC. So many versions of games you need a literal spreadsheet to keep track of how to get what feature. Broken piles of shit that rely on a "90-day roadmap" to tell us when they'll be playable. Using gambling mechanics to make children rob their parents to pay for loot boxes. The list is endless. Every second game dev could have night terrors for the next decade and it still wouldn't make up for how they have mutilated their own art form in the pursuit of unlimited profit. Almost every major games publisher, from EA to Activision-Blizzard to Ubisoft to Warner Brothers has behaved absolutely reprehensibly and in a just world would be burned to the ground by an angry mob.

ohithereyou 7y ago
>Good. The amount of abuse the gaming industry has heaped upon consumers the past ten years is almost beyond belief. Not to mention how they chew up and spit out the people making the games.
lbeltrame 7y ago
> Good. The amount of abuse the gaming industry has heaped upon consumers the past ten years is almost beyond belief. Microtransactions. What's funny about this is that part of the press actually encouraged microtransactions and what not when they were still not widespread (I remember a piece on FFXI/XIV arguing to drop subscriptions and go microtransactions). Cue a few years later, everyone in the press is screaming about how microtransactions and pay to win ruin everything. Quite ironic.
raxxorrax 7y ago
I believe this cannot honestly be blamed on artists and developers. These are just people to be exploited by corporate practices. The only real boss of a publicly traded company is greed. And even a CEO isn't really free anymore in todays world.

ohithereyou 7y ago

>Good. The amount of abuse the gaming industry has heaped upon consumers the past ten years is almost beyond belief. Not to mention how they chew up and spit out the people making the games.

lbeltrame 7y ago

> Good. The amount of abuse the gaming industry has heaped upon consumers the past ten years is almost beyond belief. Microtransactions. What's funny about this is that part of the press actually encouraged microtransactions and what not when they were still not widespread (I remember a piece on FFXI/XIV arguing to drop subscriptions and go microtransactions). Cue a few years later, everyone in the press is screaming about how microtransactions and pay to win ruin everything. Quite ironic.

raxxorrax 7y ago

I believe this cannot honestly be blamed on artists and developers. These are just people to be exploited by corporate practices. The only real boss of a publicly traded company is greed. And even a CEO isn't really free anymore in todays world.