>>713424123
Gamers must be a marketing nightmare. Think about it:
>Your game MUST offer good replay value, gamers now expect NG+ or content that will last a 2nd playthrough
>Game must also be competitively priced, if your straight-to-PC title isn't on Steam you are kneecapping yourself
>If you're a AAA company, your audience will expect frequent content updates
>No sex? No sell
And a shitload else I can't think of right now. No other entertainment medium has a tougher audience to please than video games. Film studios can shit out 7 mediocre films in a row and still turn a dollar, but a game studio? One bad apple will permanently fuck up your image. The only reason the big game studios can get away with this is because literal government institutions have shares in them to keep them afloat, and we are just now seeing the effects that shit game fatigue is having on these studios: they are CRUMBLING, they are DESPERATE to appeal to an audience which is so verdantly jaded that they are killing them by doing NOTHING.
So yeah, it feels pretty fucking good to be a gamer.