The Next Video Game Crash Has Begun
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"We are not gamers. We are developers."
And that is why you fail
Remember when it used to be "By gamers. For gamers."?
@@amadeusagripino6862 I know this isn't really related but I heard the term "gamer" came from "gambler", so all the gacha stuff makes sense 😂 (even if it's really bad)
Agreed. Back when gaming was in it's golden age the main reason why is because the "developers" were gamers themselves. They had the passion required to make entertaining fun games. Much like how movie makers of the past had the passion & vision to make great movies unlike the hacks of today.
Part of this is because of things like the XNA framework, Unity, or Unreal. These were frameworks that lowered the bar for 'developers' to be able to make games with less experience and passion. You need passion to make quality products.
The companies order lunch for them everyday too. Even as a low level call of duty qa tester I got free lunch ordered every single day. "darwinist jungles"
The ESG money is running out!
And the ESG money is running out because free money from the Fed has been cut off after 15 years of QE/ZIRP. It's not just ESG money. It's also all the forms of venture capital (VC) that are gone as well. The market has been levitating on fake money sloshing around for a decade and a half. The hangover is going to be epic for the entire economy, not just gaming.
No it's more like they're going to stop giving the money cuz I think they ran its course.
@@mikecampos1193 Nope. Blackrock lost 2 TRILLION last year.
@@Smooshmouf whoa that is news too me if its true well that might actually be great news for everyone in spite of hard times.
Now devs who were fired can buy a new xbox controller, Ironic.
Dont weep for people that hate you
Don't weep for the stupid you will be weeping all day.
Most game developers are not woke idiots. That's just all you see on social media.
@@alan.smitheeee Yeah I dont care. The barbarians at the gate don't care if you agree with your masters and neither do I
"Don't believe your lying eyes. The economy is doing great, and everybody loves woke." -Every liberal corporation
Pretty much this. yep.
I'm soooooo far from "right-wing", and even I'm sick (to the point of nausea) of woke/esg/dei/msm.
It's all about manipulate the masses of sheep.
And every liberal politician
@@kathrynck Yet it's your side doing it, so in a way you kinda voted for it 🤷♂
@@unnamed715 Not really.
I was "low-information" in 2016, but not after that.
MSM used to be "slanted, but not batxxxx crazy"... took a while to notice that was no longer the case while mostly focusing on work & such.
Calling Young Blood a Wolfenstein game is so disrespectful to the FPS origin.
Wolfenstein ceased to exist after the 2009-game. So, all the other so-called "Wolfenstein"-games are fan fiction.
@@stevekramerf242 New Order is great. I have no idea what you have against it.
@@travismcnasty4239 Right. New Order,Old Blood & New Colossus were all great. Youngblood was dog 💩
@@patriciamorgan2521 New Colossus and Great don't fit together.
New Colossus was one giant woke proganadga trip.
Yazi were cartoon villain compare serious tone from previous.
Anti American to dunk on usa every chance it.
Pregnant lady going out on front line.
Black female leader
"Toxic masculinity"
Bad dad trope
Horrible diffcult balance
The so call second American revolution happened after the game.
Or even the 2 d original
I'm sick of it, I don't want games that require always online, I don't want woke BS, I don't want unfinished games that are broken, I don't want to full price for a game that has first day DLC. The companies aren't run by gamers anymore they are corporatists who are greedy and short sighted.
Then we just gotta keep drilling this message into the next generation of gamers coming
short sighted like you clowns who dont even realise xbox is adorably no vr, no gyro, no adaptive triggers, no haptics. TWO machines every dev hates. fk xbox.
To be clear, this is about AAA. Indie and AA will be fine. Nothing I'm looking forward to is from big studios.
Buddy most of the big game publishers are Triple-A they're going to take a hurt as well as indie games are going to have to be big they're going to have to learn to self-publish.
@@mikecampos1193 Yes buddy big studios are going to take a hit, that's exactly what I meant when I said AAA, buddy. Buddy.
There are only a select few upcoming AAA games I am looking forward to in the future. And those games are; Pragmata, Perfect Dark and Everwild. That’s it in terms of AAA games. The vast majority of games I’m looking forward to are either indie or smaller AA games like; Reggae, His Cousin Two Scientists And Most Likely The End Of The World, Darwin’s Paradox, Glyde The Dragon, Psilosybil, RKGK etc.
I have completely given up on purchasing triple A games thanks to woke & greed ruining those games. I am only buying and playing games under the category of VR games, older games and indie games (maybe double A games too).
@@lenarmangum8630 If you don't think Perfect Dark is going to be a DEI-infested dumpster fire, I don't know what to tell you man.
They hate you.
They take every opportunity to tell you how much they hate you.
They, somehow, still feel entitled to your money.
They deserve to reap what they have sown.
And they will join your group just to make you so uncomfortable you leave
"Dont turn the workplace into darwinist jungles."
Translation: please allow us to fail upwards forever, and never fire us.
Life should be a "Darwinist jungle" But Those in charge coddle the willfully stupid.
Let's be fair here.... It's not even close to a "jungle" for all the Executives and Shareholders either who fail upwards the hardest. And it hasn't been one since 2008 thanks to business-conservatives like Henry Paulson and Timothy Geitner
Yeah, don’t let natural talent selection dictate who gets jobs 😂
This is where the participation trophy generation has got us. It needs to get back to a meritocracy.
@@iller3 don't forget how many companies got bailed out when they should have been gone, baby gone.
@@goodbloke8417 Female influence over the workplace.
Aside from the Tango Gameworks dev team, every other developer/studio effected 100% has pronouns and rainbow flags in their bio, and I couldn't be happier to see them exiting the industry.
Tango literally made the most trans game ever with Wi-Fi Slush and it flopped.
As they exit the industry they will leave behind a whole stack of pronoun employees that you'll need to make sure do not manage to migrate to the Indies.
Otherwise they will bring their ruinous ways with them.
@@sixmillionisimpossible it’s okay you have blind glasses now
i'd call it more of a triple A crash than gaming crash, indie industry is going to keep trucking on
I would agree, but then I guess with this logic the first video game crash wasn't really a video game crash, just an atari crash since it was atari games that was affected by this, not computer games.
I feel most indies and most Japanese companies will survive. The West will be the most affected by this. Especially the ones eating up ESG/DEI and seeing their games sell less thus they lose a lot of money.
Yeah I even have a couple early access games in my steam library that have announced that they are hiring more into the team. While AAA is shrinking, indie is growing. It's about time.
same thing with music, probably film soon, too
Indie and Retro are bound to boom soon for sure.
The difference between this and the 80s is this year it isn't just the Videogame Industry that is crashing!
And this time, it's being done on purpose
Both right. On purpose, and for all forms of entertainment.
Free money (effective 0% interest rates) cannot be separated from the growth of the entire tech industry. We had artificially low interest rates for over two decades, most of these companies didn't exist the last time a business had to prove they could survive without endless cost-free borrowing. The entire silicon valley VC business model doesn't work when money costs money, so expect a lot more of these contractions and closures.
Under appreciated facts
we dont need that 1001th mobile game or app though. it gonna sting a bit then new dawn opens.
Please tell me this means Bethesda will quit updating Fallout 4 and Skyrim...
Were not that lucky
I refuse to mod until they stop. I'm tired of the updates that cause the scripts to fail. Beyond Reach, VIGILANT, UNSLAAD, Sofia, Auri, etc you'll be missed.
Umm no.... skyrim stealth archer super combo edition is going to be announced for Christmas 2024 at a price tag of 79.99 all it adds is an extra 20 skill points to the stealth and archer trees 3 new bow skins for each bow and a now house with a proper archery range with standard targets and monster targets. For some reason the monster targets will be glitched and always a mirror of the player... it's not a bug its a feature. Oh and a handful of quests that were cut before and never completed that is for he community to do and Tod to make money off of later
Fingers crossed!
Once, it was said that two things are certain in life - death and taxes.
This has since been proven to be expanded to "death, taxes, and Skyrim getting a new release every year"
"We don't want Darwinist jungles" is pretty explicitly just "We don't want a meritocracy"- And that tells you all you need to know about the situation.
The gaming industry is going through what Hollywood is.
Too many studios chased the streaming bubble and making filler content versus making quality content and pimping it out to one or two streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
And a lot of them are in serious financial trouble. As far as I’m concerned on both counts, tough.
This is reaping what you sow.
It is reaping what they sow, but I still mourn the existence of the apparatus of say, Hollywood, to create quality stuff.
It's actually what's called a humiliation ritual. They destroy the things people love, for all to see..and ironically, they've been doing it in a way that gets the target to destroy the thing they love on their own. It's all been done, on purpose, to demoralize the masses. It's effectively scientific, in the way that the social engineering is done.
MTX, DLC and charging premium for a game that's unfinished and sections locked behind paywall, and D31 is what is going to hurt the gaming industry
Right, just look at the 2010's, lots of companies trying to get a piece of the Fortnite pie, not realizing everyone that plays live service games are not going to replace their favorite game for another.
@@SammEater I still don't think most of the big companies have realized this, yet.
The employees at arcane looked like the heaviest thing they pick up is the controller.
Those Fired Staff are FEELING THE BURN!!
At least they know how to code already...
Spotify - became the only radio station posing as record store,
Look where the "music" industry is now.
Netflix - became the only TV station posing as a Blockbuster store,
Look at where Hollywood is at now.
GamePass - wants to be the only GameStop and pose as Steam,
Look at where it's heading.
This trend of turning every physical product into a physically intangible subscription service is economically unsustainable.
I would say Triple-A is in trouble, which is great! Indie is thriving... as long as they stay away from greedy publishers.
its shocking to me how BAD Starfield was.
Yup. I played it for quite awhile too for the first few months after its release, pretty sure I have a hundred or so hours. But when I look at No Mans Sky (NMS) & ALL the crap that you can do, vs Starfield & what you can't, I just shake my head. Even the only thing that Starfield had over NMS, which was ship building, is now moot, since you can do that in NMS now.
Sad to say, but just like the original Star Wars trilogy was G. Lucas' "lightning in a bottle". I think Skyrim was Bethesda's "lightning in a bottle". In both cases, never to be repeated.
It's made by woke devs
Wait till TES 6 finally comes out. I guarantee it'll be a flop.
@@user-ip6wq7vr7m Sad commentary, ain't it?
@@Harrison11106 the fact that there wasnt a in game radio kinda struck me as odd. i know this is set in the future so who knows what kind of music is popular but at least have a space news channel that you can tune into in the more civilized systems to get a level of immersion and see whats going on.
And Bethesda itself gets the axe next year. This is the scythe of the hyprinflationary dollar as well. It is time for a new age of new studios.
They got what they voted for. Hyperinflation and no mean tweets.
What makes you say Bethesda will be gone?
@@lashed1980 Unless they get their act together and or the economy does an abrupt turn they will be next. Just look at the Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony necropolis. The companies who made Ultima, Deus Ex, and Fallout originally can be found there.
@user-zu7fr8qm8r I don't know. I think every other company around them will go first...
With the promise of elder scrolls 6, I just think they will release more and more to jeep their heads above water first.
After that game releases...that's a different matter.
@@lashed1980 That is the crux of it. They make Elder Scrolls Six great again. Or they make the axe great again. Up to them.
The problem with triple A developers is that they're not people who want to make fun video games, they're a corporate business first and foremost. They may not be financially bankrupt yet but they are creatively and morally bankrupt. If I can write down all the problems they have I would've written a book longer than some novels.
amen.. gaming blowing up the way it did and becoming this multi-trillion market was the worst thing possible.
@@clarkecorvo2692 No. The problem is people having agendas, not that gaming has become so profitable.
@@clarkecorvo2692 Agendas, and corporations resurrected done stories to reboot or add on a new addition that sucks more balls than golf balls through a hose.
@@Krypto121 you don't see the forest for the trees. becoming this big invites all this corpo BS and the pandering that comes with it.
also, gaming was profitable before, otherwise it wouldve died out.
Losing Tango is really sad, they're a bunch of old school Capcom devs from the OG Devil May Cry and Resident Evil days. They're incredibly talented, passionate, and creative. It's really sad to see them catch strays here.
The game industry crashed years ago. Nobody noticed.
The difference with the early 80's is the size of revenue was huge for decades it has many platforms now as well so a crash would be very different now indeed.
It's not going to be a full tilt.
the quality crashed years ago... yeah..
@@AdrianGrave Around 2004/2005.
*Recession
The gong has sounded for the AAA industry
Helldivers had a bigger impact on the AAA scene then most people are talking about.
Arrowhead produced a great game that players need to work together to progress.
and they did it with a $40 price tag. That price point and popularity shattered the $70+ talking point coming from AAA
That and Helldivers 2
The main (or at least a major) reason for mass layoffs is the change in the US Fed raising the rate up from zero. Zero interest essentially meant free money for people who already have a lot of money, b/c free loans. When the rate went up, it was inevitable for FAILING BUSINESSES to be shut down. So, you're right, these businesses were not successful, but the rate hike forced the hand of those floating these bad businesses.
was this also coinciding early 1980s? Im waiting to see if madness of world goes away via that money side getting more normal.
It's like everyone seems to forget that we have a huge stockpile of nearly 40 years of games to choose from that are either free through emulation or are available at a fraction of the cost of modern games. If the servers for the modern warfare and Black ops series were still up, that would eventually be the only reason I would be paying for game pass
Indeed and lots of old games to replay over and over again ^^
Again everything is happening I said back in 2015 that there would be another video game crash if the game industry kept pushing toward the inevitable.
I've seen the writings on the walls and look where we are.
If you never learned from history you are doomed to repeat it and the industry crash should happen to humble itself from its mistakes and delusion.
Many people say "Oh the video game crash won't happen again", I am a crazy person.
How wrong they are as many continue to talk about the first crash and refuse to admit that it will happen again in the future.
I also had the same sentiments for years particularly back when micro transactions took off in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s when devs would release unfinished games.
You do know the 'first game crash' only happened in America right? I know the gaming industry is more centralized now but if Predominantly American triple A studio fold other 'arguably better' things will fill the void.
I don’t think newer studios are going to get the memo as we might hope. History is just as likely to repeat itself for the worst and we don’t know if we are truly safe.
I have a big backlog of games to fall back on!
Hi-Fi Rush's studio shuttering doors makes me sad. They didn't do anything wrong. They just went into business with unscrupulous people. Putting it on Game Pass screwed them over and then Bethesda went and released Starfield, and then decided to cut them out instead of taking the hit themselves.
Absolutely. Xbox didn’t even put enough effort to sell a physical version of it
Bethesda is well known for murdering studios so they can loot the remains. its no surprise their business practices have translated even when being bought by microsoft.
Take one look at the BLOAT in development teams and then also consider that this BLOAT is both interested in, and has the power to enforce, their own job security. That's just about half of the problem. CUT. THE. BLOAT.
2:37 the Bernie Sanders controller 😂😂
Also, why does every game need to be a 300mil techdemo made by 1000 people across 4 different countries? What happened to western games that it basically completely erased AA or smaller games? Remember when DOOM was made by like 10 dudes in an apartment?
Because any new developer entering the industry went to the same colleges as everyone else, had the same professors as everyone else, who all had the same politics, fashion sense, and insipid idol worshipping as everyone else.
If you destroy the working parts, what you get is a broken machine.
A beacon of light from a burning screen. Light up the Night!
They did it to themselves. No sympathy from me.
I just feel bad for the Hi-Fi Rush studio. Everyone else is closer to apathy.
Is it not just the economy sucks and people don't have money for games because they don't even have money for food rent etc?
That's part of it, but far from the full picture.
Gaming is the most cost effective entertainment, by far.
Compare that to the cost of movies.
Part of it but it is also gamers fighting back against the stupid decisions these companies are making.
Its not the only thing, hiw many people would have bought these games anyways?
Most of the money in gaming is not from the lower-income class gamers. It is from the normie-esque casual gamers who work dead end jobs with no family, no kids.
They have enormous expendable income and nothing to spend it on.
See the first week of earnings for Diablo 4 and you'll get a great idea of where the money for AAA comes from. The companies produce slop for an audience that comes home from their worthless job to their disgusting apartment with their worthless after-work life and they play video games or buy music, whichever vice is theirs they ruin that industry.
Been the way for like 50+ years, before I was born the music industry was the one corporations and slop consumers were ruining.
The problem is, you are showing footage of Arkane Lyon. The studio that got shut down was Arkane Austin. I'm sure if you found footage of the Arkane Austin studio, it would look like a darwinist jungle.
Mikami must have know this bs was coming. Hope he can pull a lot of that japanese talent with him on a new studio.
XBOX is simply out of touch with the consumer. That's why they're not growing. Going around and buying up Gaming Studios is not growth. It's the games and the austerity that comes with it owning an XBOX game. 💯
Instead of the awesome "bounty hunting in space" Prey 2, we got whatever Prey 2017 was.
Neuroshock
But Prey 2017 was awesome, and so was it's DLC, which is rarer than gold dust. I don't know where this new narrative has come from, but people have always loved Prey 2017. Fyi, 70% of the team that made Prey 2017 left the studio while they were making Redfall, because it wasn't a game they wanted to make.
@@facerip2222 Prey 2017 is not a bad game, but to say people were not disappointed that it was the game we got, instead of the incredible looking "bounty hunter in space" Prey 2 is an understatement. Honestly, it should have been given it's own name, and probably would have sold really well.
That trailer, still looks better than any thing we have had in years.
@@facerip2222
it sucked.
Go make a botted comment somewhere else.
"and so was its DLC!"
yeah, totally organic.
To dinga bakaba,
Corporations are NOT your friends.
That is all.
To Dinga Binga;
Guess being a DEI hire didn't pan out.
@@sixmillionisimpossible It seems to have worked out for Bethesda Game Studio despite having a series of garbage titles released in a row and now wit MS hyper focusing on their established IPs.
@@alan.smitheeee
Yeah sure, that's why they needed to sign away their IP to amazon after spending millions on a massive flop that was 76.
which was followed by lawsuits, refunds and a cumulative net loss.
Right?
To be fair, the entire American economy is collapsing.
It's the industry starting to heal from all the diversity hirings. Quite literally all the recent video games that had weird looking "diverse" characters with that abysmal looking Killmonger hair (The Saints Rows of the world, the Redfalls fo the world and the Forspokens of the world) were all absolute failures. Not even their own people want to support them.
Diversity is not why the AAA gaming crash is happening. It’s a problem for sure, but it’s not the sole problem you culture warriors think it is.
50% crash, 50% retooling for AI
I think the woke money is finally running out.. we may not be looking at a crash, this may be a Phoenix rising from the ashes.
All the markets will go with them, unfortunately, so this gets worse before it gets bettwr
@@robertbeisert3315 Indies will be fine.
@@Rebellions not if the stock market crashes as hard as it probably should have in 08 or 00.
@@Rebellions
Nintendo will be fine.
It's been orchestrated
if its an orchestra.... it has a conductor.
@@forkittens a Red Orchestra one might say.
Orchestrated by whom, and for what purpose? To boost the tinfoil hat industry?
Booms bust. They always have, and they always will. That process is often accelerated by rampant idiocy, but I'd love to hear what you think 'their' objective is in this case.
@theritchie2173 well, last time they used it as an excuse to rapidly increase the money supply and transfer wealth directly to investment firms.
there is no grand design. its like over intellectualizing something, every step made sense until you take a step back and look at it as a whole.
well, we are in the "looking at the whole" part now and it will ALWAYS happen again the same way.
The only studios that I was sad to see Microsoft gain control of were Tangoworks and Machine Games. Since they ruined what made Rare special, it was obvious that Microsoft would ruin them somehow.
I swear man some of these devs are so deluded, its like they think they can just pump out trash and everyone is gonna coddle them and tell them its great. Get over yourself, if I sucked at my job I'd be fired too, you aren't special.
The bloated corpse is rotting away? Oh no....
AAA gaming crash? What a sad story! (laughs)
Oh, you’re serious? Let me laugh even harder! 🤣🤣🤣
"Crash" over there in the over-priced, buggy and content-free, "AAA" world.
Meanwhile, back in reality, there are thousands of better, and better value, indie games.
Movies cost a fortune, but there are thousands or millions of us who can write games at home and post them on the internet.
[Poe's law indicator: while it is true I started working as a programmer in 1981, I deny responsibility for the 'crash' of 1983].
"thousands"
I bet you only play 3.
Nintendo stopped a lot of garbage releases, their still was just no where near the amount that atari allowed
It hurts every time Razor makes fun of Prey. 🥺
The Game Pass is a horrid joke, 80% indie garbage and the rest are sub mid games.
tons of DEI crapware that nobody wants. i cancelled it not long ago after being tired of checking the new additions only to be met with total junk
And Microsoft expect the subscription money will help pay for the AAA Games, it is not sustainable.
You know what we call those? Shovelware
The establishment gloated about "winning" gamergate. This is the consequence. We told you so.
The piper must be paid, and they can't delay it anymore now.
Microsoft is a trillion dollar company and Phil promosed specifically to foster creativity in their purchased studios.
So I guess it's safe to expect another 'Group REE at GDC' next year, huh?
I just dropped $800 on a modded Halo CE edition original xbox with a 1.4ghz CPU and 128mb of ram with native HDMI and a 2tb SSD... And working Xbox Live. There isn't many out there and I only found 2 for sale.
I'm praying for the crash because I have a large backlog on my PC to keep me happy and this Xbox too
i need one.
@@BrandonTheAnimeGuy There is a black skeletal one being sold soon on Mercari.
The Seller is called luvbuckets.
There is also a site called wired opposite were you can customize a original xbox's hardware before you buy it.
There is no 1.4ghz cpu on those one though but not many games can use that cpu properly without patching anyways.
@@BrandonTheAnimeGuy RUclips is deleting my comments but the store is Mercari and the builder is luvbuckets
800 dollars? That is way overpriced. I paid 150 Euros for my XBox 360 RGH.
I've got some bad news for you: you just got scammed hard. With that kind of money you could have bought a mid to high end PC which would have given you access to 40+ years worth of video gaming history both PC as well as consoles through emulation.
Craig :"it is terrible that these people lose their jobs."
Razorfist:"if he dies, he dies."
Microsoft really hated those people they let go. They timed things. So they could feel the burn. Or not. But let's have happy thoughts. Celebrating however we want.
I said this to people I knew back in 2015 that eventually the gaming market would crash because modern game do not have the same heart and souls games back then did. Fast forward 2024, it is here.
Crash of 83 ...
I was a Junior in High School ... I had a Mattel Intellivision, I never noticed any change in the availability of video games at that time.
Then on through the 80's Commodore then I got into Macs in 1988 Shareware Ruled the day.
I think AAA gaming is headed for a reset, budgets and prices are way overvalued I have watched Collectors editions go from $ 100 ish for the Fallout 3 to $ 200 for the Fallout 4 ... now the prices are beyond.
Game prices were cheap enough I could by all of the Fallout NV pre-order versions to get all of the bonuses. Caravan pack and so on.
I came in after the crash. I had a NES, adored that system. I'd love being able to play Rad Racer again.
Immersive Sim specifically means a game like Deus Ex. A first person shooter with multiple approaches to completing the missions and some RPG elements.
controversial opinion: i hope for a really cold gaming winter.
quality will survive, the bloat has to go.
Look, I don't know about all of you, but I've been stocking up on 360 and PS3/4 games when they were pennies on the dollar. Let the industry collapse. I've got plenty to do. My backlog can handle it 😂
i sayd goodbye as a customer and went play Genshin Impact. best decision. i get want i want from a game and everything for free.
Dinga was a DEI installed employee.
It's all cyclical. We're just seeing the conglomeration of AAA into a few megacorp hands while AA rises into the next AAA studios. There are always winners and losers in this process. This has happened before. It will happen again.
People are broke, and the woke money is running out.
There's a difference between a bad game to a low sales game both have some link but not always and with arkane they were that difference
Fire everyone
3 are justified, Tango feels like collateral damage.
I seriously thought we were already in a crash. It feels like it did between 2014-16 where nothing came out and it was crap on top of crap.
Not too long, and Skyrim will be the game of TWO generations.
Tango Games was started by Shinji Mikami and when he left, I felt that studio was on notice.
When Dinga mentioned 'darwinist jungles', I don't think he meant the office interior design.
I own a PS5 and a Series X. Games are long, tedious. Derivative? I hooked up my PS3 and I’m streaming stuff. I forgot how much fun WWE All stars was. Just an example of a game that wasn’t that famous, but compared to the crap that about now, All stars felt like a piece of art.
Video Game Crash 2: Electric Boogaloo! Let's goooo!
It’s a contraction, for sure, especially among AAA publishers. But an industry-wide crash? I’m not seeing it.
AAA is failing and that's OK. Focus on Indies and AA games.
Prey was a great game.
But Arkane Austin really took a tumble with Death Loop and Red Fall.
But Phil Spencer openly lied about not dropping support for these games and studios. Bethesda expanded in the wrong areas. They should have expanded into two or three studios to work on their titles to close the gap between releases. So one works on Elder Scrolls and the other Fallout, then another for Starfield. I'd love a Starfield 2, but they'd have to narrow down the game and add quite a bit more weapons, ship parts, and gear.
By this point Microsoft has more successful special edition controllers than AAA exclusive titles.
The "bedroom coders" (indies) saved Gaming in the 8-bit era. Outside of North America, microcomputers flourished. My first micro was a Commodore 64, and the amount of games released in the UK was massive. The budget titles especially kept the industry and the hobby afloat, as a lot of those budget titles were great. Sure there was a lot of crap, but budget meant budget, usually around 2 or 3 quid, so literal pocket money for a kid at the time. You didn't feel too ripped off as much if you didn't like the game. That's how Codemasters started out, and they're still about all these years later. Then again, so is Activision. Oh, well. Anyway, the point is, a crash was inevitable but I'm not at all worried. The indies saved Gaming before, they'll do it again, where some will eventually replace those AAA studios that will inevitably collapse.
Shinji Makami bailed at the right moment.
Regarding getting burned by microtransactions: look up what Bandai Namco did with Tekken 8. They delayed the MTx shop 1 month after release, reaped the positive reviews and then stealth dropped it on the community.
That's the evil greed we are dealing with. People need to completely stop buying from these offending companies till they close
I’ll push back on the snarky workplace comments Craig made. A company can provide its employees with all the food, energy drinks and free laundering services you would ever want and still be a disgusting, manipulative and awful place to work. Those tend to be the businesses that never want their employees to leave the building. They want your entire life to be at work, and they will psychologically condition you to believe that you owe them far more than your contract states because of all the “nice” things they do for you.
🤔 interesting
a longtime coming. across all industries, karma has come to collect on the bill. and its only beginning. in 10 years time, the landscape will look so entirely different
It is instructive go look at some of that Arkane developer's past posts about DEI. When they were riding high on Peak Woke and the lockdown-induced tech sector boom, he was making some very brave and bold pronouncements.
Now that the money is tight, he's suddenly very afraid of "Darwinian jungles" (read: meritocracy) because he knows that when getting (and keeping) a job goes back to being dependent on actually producing a quality game that people enjoy, he brings nothing of value to the table.
You know, i remember coming home from school on a Friday, popping Rachet: Deadlocked into my PS2, and just going ham all weekend. There was no dlc. No updates. Nothing to pay for, aside from the disk.
That's how games should be.
Kara has to be one of the most endearing streamers I've seen in some time. I remember first seeing her on a Palworld stream with Az.
8:25 If "Immersive Sim" doesn't mean anything, then RPG means even less so and "action" could be literally anything.
I always just assumed it meant the old school sims like tank, helicopter, jet, mech and space games that came with a huge keyboard chart because only 4 keys on your keyboard will NOT be used in the game, every single other key is binded to something.
It's not clear what Microsoft want from their studios. Hi-fi rush feels like the perfect game pass game. Tangoworks is a strange studio because the founder left and even the director of Ghostwire Tokyo left. Surely there is value in that studio? In the end it doesn't really matter if another independent studio grows from the ashes. A lot of these publishers push nonsense on their studios to build a game that follows industry trends rather than making what people want. The problem with Arkane is that their games are very niche, and you can understand why they would close the studio.
Must be pretty chill to sit down to talk about gaming and not really have any idea of what's going on. Dream job, right here.
I respect Razorfist's opinion, but I loved the Dishonored games and Prey.
Deathloop was lazy. It was an interesting idea, but it was basically reusing content over and over.
MS has some pretty crazy advanced A.I. they use in house. My neighbor(s) I would say 75% are MS employees. Two weeks ago we had a little community bbq, and I was asking what they thought the future was with A.I.
His take was that "FANG" is going to push A.I. very hard mush like the auto industry did with robot assembly lines. MS specifically is going all cloud. We will no longer have high powered PC's doing the heavy lifting at the office. We will just subscribe to a monthly use of a portal that gives us all of our programs. Once this is implemented MS will begin laying off. They will be able to run on skeleton crews with A.I. filling the gaps. MS is in the building phase currently. Around 2028-2030 they will have had all their data centers build to have the capacity to go all cloud.
They also realize that A.I. may advance to the point where they will not need huge data centers anymore as programs/hardware become more, and more efficient though A.I. So they are gutting their gaming division,and are using it too see how A.I. make that industry "leaner".
Hmmmm. The mothership's revenue is only up 30%. Something had to be done.
Commodore 64 and Amega great times. My high school even had Apple 2e and that was 1989-90.
When the marketing team runs the company and the product team doesn't.