exdeath said:
Activision, EA, Microsoft are the three main culprits. The maximum profits at all costs and appealing to the widest possible audience, buying out the competition, buying popular niche games and ruining them and squatting on the IP so nobody else can take the torch, subscription services, all these things spearheaded buy the evil 3.
And not just those three but it's infected everyone else. Everybody wants in on the Cod/halo/Madden casual pie now and it has all but destroyed other genres and franchises. Resident Evil and Final Fantasy I'm looking at you.
I too yearn for the SNES and PS1 era when games were about games and not about investors and unsustainble record breaking quarterly statements.
Square was doing perfectly fine. The SNES Chrono Trigger one of the most revered games of all time I don't think sold over 500k but Square did just fine.
What happened? Why does a game have to break 6 million sales to be successful now? Where is the money going? Not the developers.
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PS no nostalgia about it either. Has nothing to do with growing up either.
Absolute gems that appear far too infrequently like Ni no Kuni and The Last Us and Xenoblade Chronicles constantly reaffirm that I haven't changed at all. Games are indeed just too commercialized and shitty these days.
