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potato_hamster on 02 August 2016
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Veknoid_Outcast said:
potato_hamster said:

But don't you see that you come off as a gigantic hypocrite by essentially berating consumers for condoning these practices by supporting those practices with their money, when you do the same yourself. You have a PS4, and from what I can see from your signature, have many games for it, and have played many games for it. You probably have a PS + subscription as well based on your ownership of games that were free on PS+ recently. You also own games like The Last Of Us, and Heavy Rain, which have tons of mocap and voice acting. You're supporting the very thing your railing against. So what does that make you?

What gives you the right to criticize the industry and those that support it when you support it so heavily yourself, and consume the very things you claim developers should not be making?

Dude, calm down. Why loose your venom on me? You do realize I'm a writer for the site right? I play these games for a living. I need to know what's going on in the industry so I can write with authority.

Anyway, I never said these things should not be made. There's a place for cinematic action games because there's an audience out there for them. I would never deprive fans of games by Quantic Dream or Naughty Dog. I just think there are a lot of negative trends that make the industry less engaging and less sustaining. Producing more expensive games with less margin for error makes publishers less likely to take risks and more likely to find supplementary sources of income. That's just the reality of the situation. That's what I'm railing against.

And I'm a console game developer making the games you apparently don't want to see made the way they are. It's really irrelevant that you're a writer for the site, or why you play the games you do, the fact of the matter is that you're a part of it. You're a part of the very problem you're railing against. If you don't like how the industry has grown, then why do you continue to support that growth? If you have to play these games and write about them as part of your job, and you don't support the creation of these games, then get another job. Quit writing about video games you don't want to play and an industry that you don't like. Don't offer it up as an excuse for your hypocrisy.

But here's the drag of it. It's easy to be a critic and say "this is broken", but anyone who is bold enough to criticize should also be offering insight as to how to fix it. So how would you fix the game industry? How would you mold it to fit what you feel it should be, and how does that solution put as least as much money in developers pockets as they have now?