potato_hamster said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:
I'm sorry, but the industry needs journalists and critics. It can't just be the developer/publisher and the consumer. There needs to be an independent press to monitor and evaluate the industry. I'm not going to give up my job because I hurt your feelings. If YOU can't take the heat, then maybe YOU should quit developing games.
How would I fix the game industry? I'd start by lowering barriers for consumers - both in terms of cost and technology - and encourage publishers to make more modest games with more modest budgets. That means a greater number of people buying systems and games, and fewer studios closing because development and advertising budgets spun far out of control.
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Hilarious. My feelings aren't hurt, yours clearly are however. I don't actually have any issue with writers or critics for that matter, but I do think it's rather odd that someone who is so against how the gaming industry is evolving would continue to participate, consume, and promote the very things they encourage others to not consume. I'm not the one who has a problem with the gaming industry as it is. You are. Yet here you are thinking I should leave because I called out your hypocrisy? That apprently means I can't "take the heat" because you have a problem with the game industry and I don't? How can your mind work in a way that that makes sense in your head? Sounds to me like you're projecting pretty hard here.
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So your solution is to make cheaper game consoles and cheaper developer tools huh? That's nice. That's a question hardware manufacturers have been trying to answer since the dawn of the console. The lower the price, the more you sell, the more you sell the more games that get made for your console, the more games that get made, the more you make in licencing and certification. This was true when the NES hit the market, and it's true for the PS4. So why didn't Sony put out the PS3.1? Why didn't Microsoft put out the Xbox 365? Why didn't Nintendo put out the Wii-Ohh wait they did. Have you considered that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo spend millions a year on market research and know a bit more than you about what consumers want and what they don't? Have you considered that Sony stood to make more money releasing a PS4 instead of a PS3.1 in the face of MS releasing the X1? Have you even looked at the likes of the OUYA or the Wii U? Aren't they more or less what you're asking for? Have you looked at how developers that make highly-profitable multi-million selling games might not want to make games on your console if its power is so limited it holds the game back? Don't forget that PCs don't give a fuck about console peasants, and like it or not consoles always have and always will be competing with them. How does that factor into your cheaper, more consumed friendly console?
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Dude, I don't know where all this hostility is coming from. But I'm getting tired of you calling me a hypocrite and questioning my integrity. I play all types of games on all types of systems because that's how one covers the industry. Why do I need to enjoy all of it? There are plenty of crooked journalists out there who simply conform to what publishers demand of them, spitting out puff pieces and dishonest reviewers. I'm not one of them. If I see a problem in the industry I'm going to point it out. I'm going to make a big deal out of it. If I don't, who will exactly?
Is the NYT reporter who attends a Donald Trump speech and afterward writes an op-ed chastising him a hypocrite? No, it's his/her job to cover things he or she might not like, so he/she can provide consumers with information and analysis. The gaming media is not supposed to be a cheerleader for the industry; it's supposed to be a watch dog.
I'd be happy to have a civil debate over the state and future of the video game industry, but I'm not going to suffer any more ad hominem attacks. So start treating me and this forum with respect, or kindly move on to a new target.
