>>719135207
Video games are going through a big crisis at the moment, although it's not a very loud one because people concentrate on crying about numbers of jobs. The field grew too fast and a large percentage of the people working in it are shoddily trained for assembly line type production, not making art. Even worse, the passionate people are retiring or essentially becoming senile. Big studios (very much comparably to the studio system in Hollywood) try to fix the problem by throwing money at it, thinking if they buy a proven franchise they can just pour some money on a studio and it will shit out a banger every time. Additionally they are perfectly happy to continue exploiting brand recognition every way they can which only adds to the problem.
Back around the 90's and even in the early 2000's you had to really want to work in the field and have some kind of passion for it that functioned as a natural filter.
It's not all doom and gloom though, there are still good games coming out every now and then and there are still a large number of passionate people developing the skills they need to make good games. In fact, measured in sheer numbers the amount is probably more or less the same, but it encompasses a notably smaller portion of the field at large.
Indies have the most potential for producing genuinely good games but it's also a festering ground for absolutely horrible shit so that balances out too.
