Seems there is growing discontent among game Dev’s in the industry
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Honestly, this man is the last person on earth to call anything “crazy” considering his insanely absent hygiene practices. At least those people bathe.
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Thanks you get it all out, i know I will get this as soon as I posted asmon clips, people who have some weird hate love relationship with him and start talking about him instead of the actual content.
Though I do agree no idea why he thought it was insane, it is was just normal gamer behaviour, throw tantrum when you don’t have stuff your way.
Sadly I can’t get the source clips and have to post asmon and get his fans showing up.
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To me personally, I don’t feel like Asmon really ever has a point, he kind of just reacts and rambles.
But here is the article if anyone is interested: ‘Watch a bunch of game developers screaming in a public park to protest the state of the industry: 'It feels hard to be here and pretend like everything is fine'’
The frustration comes from layoffs. How as a game dev, at any moment, you could lose your job, even if you didn’t do anything wrong and even if the project you were working on is massively successful. All for that big juicy profit sitting on the other side. I’d be screaming too.
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I honestly want to just scream into the void at the state of the gaming industry as well.
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was checking out the steam reviews of dragons dogma 2. really bad right now and most of the reviews are saying that its a 70 dollar game with in-shop microstransactions. was thinking of outright buying that game but im kind of glad i waited to see reviews. the positive ones are saying people are exaggerating but i think ill just wait a couple of years or more to play that game when its in the bargain bin
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Ya that’s what bothers me too, mainly the relationship between the studio and publisher.
For ex take dice they poured heart and soul into Battlefront 2 and the frostbite engine by them is a marvel even if it has issues.
Now ea can just walk in and close starwars and move d them to bf2042
It’s like they have no control and people who made the game engine don’t own it.
So if they disband dice they can’t walk out with frostbite.
It’s mind-boggling.
The only studios who have managed to overcome this are larian.
Bungie, though bungie through working stuff out like doing games for others and get back into out.
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I wish protests did something, but its been proven time and time again that CEOs literally do not care.
Just look at Bobby Kotick; walked away with billions despite ruining Blizzard.
If you want real change, strike them where it hurts (The wallet)
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This is why I don’t praise eastern studios much, they always self sabatoge like idiots whenever you do, you veryone started praising capcom this is what happens, square enix did it with deus ex, bandai namco does it often enough.
That’s the huge issue, just look at the level of work and detail that went in here, they actually visited places were star wars was shot to get a feel and photographed it and used it.
That doesn’t come without passion.
But all that can be thrown away due to some idiot beam counter in a suit pushing a greedy monetization and then removing you of a game you spent years working shaping to go work on something you are not interested.
I find myself playing more and more indie/smaller studio games as time goes on. There are so many wonderful games for 5 to 20 dollars with no microtransactions or subscriptions.
It’s not that I’m trying to influence the market, or that I’m avoiding AAA games out of principle, but the value just isn’t there. Half the big releases just end up not being that fun, and I can’t even run them on my computer.
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I love indie games, studios the innovation happening there, but they can’t replace what AAA can do , they can’t give you a bg3 or starwars game.
There is a area that only aaa studios can do well and easily.
It’s just they seem to have gone compeletly off the mark with stuff
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heh yea right now im playing x-com enemy unknown. love that game and played it so much. still i like the strategy, building and turn based nature of the game. usually play on ironman and hope to have all my soldiers live through the whole campaign. usually tho i get some killed lol
i beat xcom 2 once but that is more stressful and harder plus have timers. still i think ill give it a go again
but still the old x-com game by mircropose is crazy good still even tho its like 30 years old or something.
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That’s cause old games wanted to make you have fun at all costs.
Often the Dev’s will do silly stuff that they think you will enjoy.
New games are made to make you grind and spend more time in game to get mtx or dlc.
They no longer want to sell you a experience but want to trap you.
Also older games were often handcrafted a lot and there were no templates so they were making them.
The joys of late stage capitalism.
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What happens after the late stage 
Nothing good, look at any cyberpunk or sci fi story, everything is controlled by one or two megacorps, a disaster happens everything the corp owns is rendered worthless and people fight over scraps, ala resource wars, humanitarian crisis, disease and famine (fallout storyline) basically what we are beginning to see with climate change.
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