Thread 716205485

Video games used to be amazing. What the hell happened to the industry

>>716205485 (OP)
Passion got driven out, they became slop. A product.

>>716205485 (OP)
It got eaten by suits and metrics. Games stopped being about fun and started being about engagement, microtransactions, battle passes, FOMO, and pre-order bonuses. Every dev studio’s scared to take risks now unless you're an indie. Everything’s a sequel, a remake, or a live service that dies in a year. Gaming's not dead, it’s just buried under 10 layers of monetized garbage.

>>716205485 (OP)
Lack of imagination and creativity

>>716205485 (OP)
>Consoles get left behind in 6th gen, but that's where the lowest common denominator is and all the console brands are clinging on except Sega (Nintendo manages to stick based on their IP, the PS2 manages due to its DVD player and the Xbox is Microsoft's foot in the door)
>Over the course of the 2000s the lowest common denominator starts steering the market and they usually get the worst versions of games and the worst iterations of popular franchises, which naturally leads to tastes and surveys becoming weird and distorted
>By 2009-2012, the gaming industry is convinced that their playerbase simply wants pure, unfiltered shit and proceeds to give it to them, leading to the release of games like TLoU
>By the late 2010s even this much has become distorted and major publishers are swimming on investors and grant money, not game purchases

>>716205485 (OP)
>the industry
this, games shouldn't be an 'industry', they should be a hobby that can make you a little bit of cash sometimes

>>716205485 (OP)
>What the hell happened
you became the target audience. yes, that's how much of a subhuman failure you are.

nothing happened to the industry. you should be asking what happened to you, and the answer is you didn't touch enough grass.

>>716210872
retarded zoomer

>>716205485 (OP)
Liberals and commie killed videogames

>>716205485 (OP)
You stopped playing Nintendo games and fell for Sony/Microsoft scam, frognegro.

>>716209125
Don't pretend like the corporatization of games hasn't been an absolute boon for indies. They would be nowhere without XBLA and Steam.