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God of war, Cyberpunk 2077, witcher 3, skyrim, fallout, Zelda, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy (not the mmorpgs), Assasins Creed, there's tons. I wouldn
by fckgnad 4y ago
God of war, Cyberpunk 2077, witcher 3, skyrim, fallout, Zelda, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy (not the mmorpgs), Assasins Creed, there's tons.
I wouldn't say they are billion dollar game franchises but I would say billions and billions of dollars in total are part of games where multiplayer is not the central aspect. This sector is huge.
I think games with a huge online component tend to be bigger franchises but fewer in number. Overall online gaming as an industry is bigger then single player gaming but they are both huge enough in size that they are comparable.
- thom 4y agoBut in the context of career advice, it still seems like a decent bet that the online gaming industry is and will remain pretty robust. Especially for people transitioning from traditional 'enterprise' programming jobs.
- fckgnad 4y agoWhy specifically the focus on online gaming vs. gaming in general? I would imagine the "safety" of both travel in lock step. And I wouldn't think gaming is "safer" then other fields of programming. In fact even in good times, I feel gaming is less safe.
- thom 4y agoThat was the point of contention upthread. Someone said doing backends for online games was a good transition for a general programmer, which intuitively seems plausible. The concern was whether that was too niche but the size of that market implies otherwise to me, however much bigger the whole pie might be.
- unnouinceput 4y agoWitcher 3 shot CDPR from under a billion to over 8 billions market value. So yeah, that game single-handedly made that, up to the point when CDPR dropped the ball with the buggy release of Cyberpunk 2077 - but nowadays they released a nice update for CP2077 which is what should've been the actual game launch 2 years ago.