Originally posted by Die Aufseherin:

Originally posted by Moonshine Fox:

Sadly, no they don't. For so many people that's all the gaming experience they've ever had, and are told that a game must constantly do higher numbers or it's "dying and unplayable".

it just seems weird that the younger generation does not even know the concept of playing a game and moving on afterwards anymore. but what really grinds my gears when I read stuff like "yeah devs got the money and dont care anymore" man this is some really stupid bull**** to say when the exact opposite is true

It's not too strange when you realize that just that sort of thing has been actively opposed by corps for so long in every form of media. A mass of things are put out largely unsupported till one lands just right, then they churn out every iteration of it possible till people are sick to death of even looking at it and the cycle continues. It's why you have AI algorithms doing programming choices at Netflix now, and major game companies putting out 'Medal of Duty' and 'Call of Honor' 37 or whatever at this point.

Trying to come up with something new is too much a risk for the model of infinite capital growth that is SOP for corps, and all that a lot of people have known.

And as far as that 'Devs rich they don't care' attitude, it's a real one for every AAA company, and quite a few smaller ones. It's hard to imagine otherwise, even when it stares you in the face you want to suspect an ulterior motive.