Famed developers who criminally are out of job in the industry

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Mnementh said:

Turkish said:

To me this sums up the state of gaming perfectly. Japan is becoming more and more irrelevant and the industry is moving towards Western oriented, often cinematic, hand holding games and less about stylized, skill based games. That's why studios like Platinum, games like Dragon's Dogma and certain indies that try to imitate the stuff from the good ole days are so valued these days.

Wait, what? Western devs aren't affected?

Tim Schafer

Ron Gilbert

Ken Levine

Feargus Urquhart

James Schmalz

 

Add Lord British (Richard Garriot), Warren Spector, John and Brenda Romero, Tom Hall, Jon Van Canegem, Will Wright, Peter Molyneux...

Lots of the biggest and best Game designers of the 80's, 90's and early 2000's are jobless or just heading a small Indie studio. That's also why they all jumped on the Kickstarter Bandwagon in 2012-2014, as even their big names don't mean anything to a bank if you need money