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Main issue with AAA gaming was studios consulting people who wanted to tell gamers what they should want, using their capital on paying influencers and media to

Main issue with AAA gaming was studios consulting people who wanted to tell gamers what they should want, using their capital on paying influencers and media to demonize said gamers for rejecting their games and so on. That's what pisses off the mostly straight hetrosexual male crowd that make up most of the gaming market. A big reason why many east asian game studios are doing so well by rejecting that tried and failed formula from the West.

ifjeicjwidj 3mo ago
> That's what pisses off the mostly straight hetrosexual male crowd that make up most of the gaming market. Honestly, the hell kinda remark is that? It’s nothing to do with sexuality or “companies telling you what you want” but everything to do with companies putting out complete and utter slop and people ACTUALLY buying it all. They wouldn’t waste all that time and investment money if they knew there wasn’t a market for it, but guess what? There is. Gamers seem to have the memory span of a goldfish. Horse armour? Bad. GTA VI at 80 bucks and no physical release on consoles? OMG YAAAAAASSSS GIVE ME MORE OF THE SAME HOOKER-SEX SIMULATOR WITH CRIMINAL ACTS SPRINKLED ON TOP!!! Don’t complain about gaming companies’ behaviour if you keep giving your money to them.
officeplant 3mo ago
You don't have to go full GamerGate non-sense to find plenty of issues that are hurting the AAA market. Private equity, shareholders, and greed have been far more damaging to gaming.
- zuzululu 3mo ago
  why can't you see that their greed has enabled the dynamics that brought AAA market to its where it is ? you dont think PE has influence on media with their vast resources ?
  - inigyou 3mo ago
    PE wants profit, why would they hurt profit?
- mlindner 2mo ago
  I mean GamerGate was the start of all this. It was the start of the end of the gaming industry. Games were made primarily for and by guys and they knew their target market. They didn't try to appeal to everybody they tried to appeal to to the people who bought their games. Now you have more games than ever before and gaming studios are going bankrupt left and right because they filled their staff full of people who don't even like gamers.

ifjeicjwidj 3mo ago

> That's what pisses off the mostly straight hetrosexual male crowd that make up most of the gaming market. Honestly, the hell kinda remark is that? It’s nothing to do with sexuality or “companies telling you what you want” but everything to do with companies putting out complete and utter slop and people ACTUALLY buying it all. They wouldn’t waste all that time and investment money if they knew there wasn’t a market for it, but guess what? There is. Gamers seem to have the memory span of a goldfish. Horse armour? Bad. GTA VI at 80 bucks and no physical release on consoles? OMG YAAAAAASSSS GIVE ME MORE OF THE SAME HOOKER-SEX SIMULATOR WITH CRIMINAL ACTS SPRINKLED ON TOP!!! Don’t complain about gaming companies’ behaviour if you keep giving your money to them.

officeplant 3mo ago

You don't have to go full GamerGate non-sense to find plenty of issues that are hurting the AAA market. Private equity, shareholders, and greed have been far more damaging to gaming.

zuzululu 3mo ago
why can't you see that their greed has enabled the dynamics that brought AAA market to its where it is ? you dont think PE has influence on media with their vast resources ?
- inigyou 3mo ago
  PE wants profit, why would they hurt profit?
mlindner 2mo ago
I mean GamerGate was the start of all this. It was the start of the end of the gaming industry. Games were made primarily for and by guys and they knew their target market. They didn't try to appeal to everybody they tried to appeal to to the people who bought their games. Now you have more games than ever before and gaming studios are going bankrupt left and right because they filled their staff full of people who don't even like gamers.