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/v/ - anon on slow game development

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: Anonymous >>674782245 # 04/28/24(Sun)10:17:54 No.674785729 Corporate structures are inherently glacial because of how many layers of management need to have meetings to discuss and plan future meetings where they may eventually take a vote on making a decision to have someone do something. Combine that with a widespread competency crisis fueled by zoomers coming out of video game college with curricula designed by non-authorities who arbitrarily decided on a series of "best practices" which are based on a flimsy latticework of theories that consistently fall apart in practice, and you have an entire industry full of dead weight from top to bottom coasting on the fumes of aging franchises and the life support mechanism of increasingly heinous monetization practices, all while the last bastion that is indie gaming stays propped up by an ever-dwindling population of old hats who largely moved on to crowdfunded passion projects over a decade ago. People are more tolerant of extended development times because the general shift toward infinitely replayable GaaS behavior loops has eroded the precedent of "beating" a game and moving on to the next, effectively making those longer stretches of time less noticeable. Where once an entire four year run of high school could be marked by the release of countless classics and the turn of an entire console generation, now those four years are marked by a single game that a teenager started playing before they entered and will continue playing after they graduate.

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PrivateerMan

May 18, 2024 at 03:05PM EDT in reply to Kenetic Kups

The way I read it, it was less "zoomers bad" and more "morons who taught zoomers nothing useful bad"

Also, I wonder who he's referring to when he mentions the "old hats" propping up indies.

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David "Garsedj" Touchdown

May 19, 2024 at 07:33AM EDT

Don't forget that nothing is broken, the system works exactly as intended.

Just as every service became a subscription, video games as a service are a trend that corporate 100% believes in. Just like they believe in blockchain, nfts and AI. There's no golden goose too bright, no lie too great, they make money out of hyping shit up and leaving. That's why there's so many layoffs, canceled projects and closed studios. Because the system perfected itself into realizing there's no money to make from a good video game, you just need to sell the promise of one.