DarkFury on 10 April 2014
People want bigger, prettier, more lavish games with far more features. It is the army of artists that pushes up the cost, to create all the high-def art assets, but that is not the only thing: more MP modes, more online features, more companion apps, and above all, more marketing will push the cost ever higher, as the industry is saying.
The list of downsized/closed top-tier developers is very, very long. Saying it is just people with no talent is arrogant in my opinion: surely no-one here says that Irrational, Criterion or Sony Santa Monica (just to give few examples) are talentless? And yet top-tier developers are being closed/downsized too.
