We are living in the best era for gaming

[Mnementh]

Doctor_MG said:

Mnementh said:

That is actually untrue, there are literally hundreds of publishers. You choose to ignore everything that is not big, but that is on you. Publishers like Ratalaika Games. Chucklefish, 3909 LLC, Nacon, Paradox, NCSoft, Annapurna, Circle Entertainment and many others. SImilarly to developers, publishing is actually as easy as never before.

And about variety. Look around, the indie scene produces experiences that push the boundaries of gaming, while also reproducing the experience of the 80s and 90s which are abandoned by the big companies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_publishers

It's actually entirely true. Anything in yellow is defunct. Anything in blue is bought up. There is FAR more yellow and blue than white. Take a look yourself. People are fooling themselves about the state of the games industry.

Yeah, that list is massively incomplete. Some of the ones I mentioned aren't in the list. Actually most of them. Of my list only Nacon, NCSoft and Paradox are mentioned here. You make the error you make throughout the thread: you take the big companies and believe they are represent all of the gaming landscape. They don't.