| DanneSandin said: Interesting post. I think you said it best about consoles: PS4 and XB1 is doing just fine, but "seeing broken games day 1 full up the wazo of micro trans, locked dlc, pre-order/day dlc and season passes" is setting a bad trend. And I'm glad to see PC doing as well as it is! Although, like you said, there's some shady indie stuff going on there too. |
Really what I'd like to set a new trend is for us gamers to have a bit more input into what goes on, I mean after all it is our money that goes towards these games, we are the very people they want to make games for, surely having some sort of representitive parties would be a good deal of being able to do away with these horrid trends, besides most people that feed into these trends don't even realise the damage it does to those of us who see our games suffer for it so they won't really matter as much since they managed to survive before those bad trends existed (assuming they weren't born yesterday).
I'm being a bit of a dreamer though, I can't see those trend going away for at least maybe 10-20 years, they feel like one of those trends that are so bad but addictive to give up, that if given up a big loss of money will come from nowhere and cause a rupture within the industry, really we just need to get rid of it one piece at a time for say a 5 year run, 10 years at best, it's clear the "vote with our wallets" option isn't and hasn't done a major dent to the likes of EA, Ubi and Activision, the big 3 remain unfazed and Sony and MS seem content to allow it to happen, we need a message that's crystal clear without a hint of being vague but at the same time with composure, not anger (though we're mostly pissed at this stuff in the first place).
Then again after some thinking were the PS1-PS2 era days really that rosy and golden?, I still kinda remember the horrid first online attempts with my PS2 and the few bugs I had within both PS1/2 games I had back then, surely not as many as today and not enarly as broken but still.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
