| Aeolus451 said: Fairness? I think that when politics get injected into the market (into a game) that it's unfair to gamers and the game creators. The gaming market is highly competitive and because of that, mistakes are costly. One of the most notable mistakes I see devs and publishers make is not marketing their game well or at all. |
Which leads us directly to the unfair part, because only the big publishers have the means to fund big marketing campaigns. Smaller or independent devs will never get such sales no matter how good their game is unless they have the one-in-a-billion chance that the whole internet goes gangbusters about them like with Minecraft and basically does the advertising for them.
Which I consider also a failure in the vast majority of gamers themselves. Instead of properly informing themselves they wait for the next bullshot hype trailer to sway them over, no matter how crappy the final product is. Worse, they preorder the game, complain how crappy it is after they got it and then preorder the next one because that one's bullshot trailer swayed them again
