I have realized that the long term direction of the games industry is to push for more and more complex games; That require about as much capital as a game ever should need. And to achieve this level of capital they have gone to all the most wealthy companies and individuals. Along the way caring about the game had to be sacrificed in order to organize these mega companies otherwise they would not have gotten big enough to compete. I agree that it is going downhill because I don't know how it will get better. We need a mega company to go all in on caring. I think the last and maybe only time that happened in my life was for world of warcraft. The sad thing about that was that it was a huge success. But in the complete lack of competition afterward the game was able to continue doing well enough even when they stopped caring. It took a long time to demonstrate how much caring matters and that even a billionare CEO can be fired for this mistake. But I don't think anyone actually paid enough attention to learn from it.
Yeah, big companies are doing too much at this point
I have realized that the long term direction of the games industry is to push for more and more complex games; That require about as much capital as a game ever should need. And to achieve this level of capital they have gone to all the most wealthy companies and individuals. Along the way caring about the game had to be sacrificed in order to organize these mega companies otherwise they would not have gotten big enough to compete.
I agree that it is going downhill because I don't know how it will get better. We need a mega company to go all in on caring. I think the last and maybe only time that happened in my life was for world of warcraft. The sad thing about that was that it was a huge success. But in the complete lack of competition afterward the game was able to continue doing well enough even when they stopped caring. It took a long time to demonstrate how much caring matters and that even a billionare CEO can be fired for this mistake. But I don't think anyone actually paid enough attention to learn from it.