| badgenome said: He's got some points about the dire economic situation, bad demographics in advanced nations, shit games, and so forth, but man, is his attitude ever off-putting. "YOU DIDN'T MAKE THE GAMES I WANT HAHAHA YOU LOSE JOB NOW!!!" What an embittered little cunt. |
Aye, he's one of those economic purists that laugh at people with Liberal Arts degrees and anyone who doesn't do what he lovingly calls "real work."
Given my situation, he can die in a fire.
But until then, he does have a fair bit of a point, although i think that the problem he describes doesn't apply just to the games industry, but to everything in general. The advance of technology is just causing the death of "the middle," whereby, in a lot of industries, you're going to see middle-sized players either shrink or die. Like Malstrom said, the game industry will be (even more than it already is, anyway) dominated by a group of megapublishers and developers on top, and then a sea of microdevs, with nothing in between, and that this will be replicated in other industries as it becomes easier to distribute more niche projects
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
