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With the torrent of live service games failing spectacularly over the last several years, the Economist is here to tell you about why making good games is bad f
by qwery 4y ago
With the torrent of live service games failing spectacularly over the last several years, the Economist is here to tell you about why making good games is bad for business, that single-player is dead, what a 'live service' is (now and looking ahead to 2017), and the infinite money circle powering some of the sexual predators at Ubisoft.
Also,
> Developers used to finish making a game and go on holiday.
Citation needed? Maybe they meant: "holiday" /s/s/s
I assume 'developers' refers to the people who make the game, as the company can't really "go on holiday". With that in mind, developers used to, and still do, after (nearly dying) shipping a game, get laid off.