You may not believe me, but the collapse of videogame sales is a canary in the coalmine for an end of summer financial crash. Companies are realizing that Millenials and Gen Z literally don't have any money and that they also recently became the biggest demographic population wise. This is compounded by a Klarna driven consumer debt crisis and difficulty finding employment for recent college grads. There are 1000 stressors put on the 20-40 year olds right now and its this oversight that will cause the collapse. Unfortunately, no one thought about the damage that continually putting more and more hardship on their kids would cause. Spoiler: it will undo everything.
Oh no, the hollyjew method of videogames is dying, no one cares about aaa commitee developed slop, nooo!
>>714356954 (OP)Nah mate this is just the post COVID bust.
Look up boom and bust and remember when we could be arrested for going outside, depending on how your local law enforcement felt.
>>714356954 (OP)It's largely just mismanagement on the publishers' end, a big part of which was massively overhiring during COVID because the thought didn't strike them that people would stop playing videogames in such large numbers when they could go outside again
>>714356954 (OP)Something does have to give eventually. A few shitty games not selling well doesn’t signify much
How the fuck did the game development go from 2-3 years for a game to 5-8 years?
You may not believe me, but it was all me all along, I am the sole reason for videogame industry crash and all the layoffs
>>714363227Games got bigger, I suppose? Look at GTA6. It's supposed to be more detailed and better looking than RDR2. RDR2 was way more detailed and looked better than GTA5, Max Payne 3 or RDR1.
Most of the games released this year exceeded expectations for their franchise. What imaginary scenario are you spouting on about?
>>714364562bigger or more bloated? it's not like there is any innovation in the AAA industry, most games feel samey and most mechanics repeat, either they spend 4 additional years moving trees around in map editor or the dev teams (which also got much larger than they were 10-15 years ago) got less competent.
>>714356954 (OP)It’s just nature. Even companies must bend to the fundamental laws of life.
>>714363227Studios became big, inefficient corporations with larger budgets. Leaders answer to big parent company execs and shareholders, lots of middle management bloat with creative control, devs are low paid/contract/outsourced and hardly meet minimum expectations. It’s a miracle they can ever ship a game. You’d know it if you’ve ever worked in a corporate office.
>Unfortunately, no one thought about the damage that continually putting more and more hardship on their kids would cause
No, Op, you don't get it, the line must go up.
>Spoiler: it will undo everything
The day can't come soon enough.
>>714356954 (OP)I have plenty of money I'm just not spending it on shit games
>>714356954 (OP)I rent out living space to dumb gen z kids for money. Maybe their parents should have invested in property.
No, your living standards will just get worse. There will not be some major collapse that doesn't just consolidate power even more with the elite. You'll get sicker, be dumber and live worse lives because you allowed the rich to take everything from you. This has basically how humanity has lived for our history.
>>714363227videogames became serious business
>>714359665People also found new hobbies. After being cooped up at home for so long, even vidya can get old.
>>714372179Nice ivory tower you got there, how about we shove it up your ass?
>millennials
>recently
retard larp
>>714356954 (OP)>There are 1000 stressors put on the 20-40 year olds right now and its this oversight that will cause the collapse. Unfortunately, no one thought about the damage that continually putting more and more hardship on their kids would causeoh no the horror of living in peak humanity
shut up you fucking animal. did you vote for GDPR?
>>714356954 (OP)People should try to get a job, any job, asap because even openings at McDonalds are going to get flooded with resumes by this time next year. White collar jobs are going through a shredder and people with college degrees are going to be desperate.
>>714374586So you admit there was or is a peak and that it won't last?
>>714381635no. every new day is a new peak... unless you somehow lose knowledge
>>714363227over-reliance on freelance workers.If you are with a company so long, they have to give you a raise. Middle managers noticed this and realized it's slightly cheaper to kick the senior workers out and hire cheap freelancers to do the job. They are technically saving money short term but as you pointed out, development times balloon and the quality of their work is almost always subpar because not only do they have to be brought up to speed with how the rest of the team works, there is always going to to be animosity to the existing staff as you are essentially forcing them to work with the friends and colleagues of the guy you just fired. Also 9 times out of 10 they are jeets.
