Is making vidya really that hard nowadays?
Guys like Carmack made it look fun.

FF14 has no budget and can't produce content on the same level as other games like GW2 and WoW.

>>717714485 (OP)
>Carmack
Carmack is like Linus Torvalds where their idea of heaven is most likely being locked in a room with nothing but a laptop so they can code for a million years

>>717714485 (OP)
I dunno, but their so called graphics update was fucking pathetic as fuck. BDO Remastered is what you call an actual graphics overhaul. That shit was so good. It's too bad it has the horrible pop in it always had and will likely never be able to be fixed.

>>717714485 (OP)
>localizer tranny
>um ackshully I'm a game dev
Sick of this shit.

>>717714485 (OP)
carmack is a boomer who made simple games that a single guy could make in 2 months now.

>Gamedevs back then
>Passionproject homebrew free kinos
>Gamedevs now
>Literal slop "Ayy it only sold 200, people don't want indies anymore"

>>717714485 (OP)
Videogame development has blossomed into a disgusting, bloated, mess. Carmack was working with a dozen or so guys at Id, modern dev cycles are an entirely different beast. Hell, Dev teams in the 2000s were still reasonable. Something went really wrong the further we progressed into the 2010s.
Also anyone who defends the shitty practices of AAA should be castrated.

>>717715124
Make doom 3 then

>>717714485 (OP)
I mean if you get into it because you want to make games then yeah. If you're someone who is autistically into programming, it's probably pretty easy since you're just having fun the whole time anyway.

>>717714485 (OP)
Actual game dev? Yes.
FFXIV game devs shitting out the same content for over 10 years? Not really.

>>717714485 (OP)
I'm making a game using Unity and ChatGPT and I have ZERO education in development.
The hardest part is coming up with the creative elements. I have the creative talent of a plant, so yeah

>>717717847
>I have the creative talent of a plant, so yeah
We can tell by your use of ai

>>717717847
as a programmer who has occasionally used chatgpt for small systems and has seen how retarded it can be, good luck anon. if you can really get it to work you deserve success.

>>717714485 (OP)
>no proof
literally just sympathy bait. ball her a stupid cunt so you get blocked and move on.

>>717717726
Even getting generic crap into FF14 is probably pretty difficult considering the fucked up spaghetti code that game is built on.

>>717714485 (OP)
It probably was when you could just be a bunch of dudes living in a cheap house and getting paid decently when shit sells.

>>717718073
It's a lot of fun as a side project and I'm learning a lot as I go. It's more of a bucket list type thing.

>bluesky

Game dev has never been easier. You have prebuild engines, premade stock animations, textures, 3D models, sound effects, etc. Most games are also just imitations of other succesful games, so barely any risk either.

Most of the money goes into """marketing""" and hollywood accounting ie money laundering.

>>717718716
>Game dev has never been easier
Wrong

>>717719567
want to articulate yourself, or do you just want to be a faggot? How is he wrong?

>>717714485 (OP)
>pedosky

>>717714485 (OP)
>I know I say this a lot but
>people say thing
>and I say [not an argument]
Am I supposed to give a shit

>>717714485 (OP)
Creating video games is easier than ever considering that there's a million tutorials for everything, there's engines that are easy to work with, and you can get tons of help from AI.

The problem is just that AAA companies are extremely obsessed with things like "muh realism", "muh graphics", and other shit that's not even needed for a good game, which is what seems to make games take 10 years to make instead of 5.

>>717719567
the people who were real pioneers have already laid the foundation and learned the mistakes. even if you're starting from scratch, if you want to write your own render or physics engine or whatever, you're going to find resources and source code from people who have already done it

the only thing "harder" about game dev is that the bar is so much lower that there are more games to compete with and it's going to be infinitely harder for your game to ever stay in social consciousness compared to the classics. beside that, it really has never been easier

>>717714485 (OP)
ffxiv is a developed game
all they have to do now is get a bunch of artists to doodle and punch in a few numbers and maybe write terrible dialogue no one reads
not hard

>>717719662
we both know these wrongfags never do they just argue on the internet to validate themselves. besides this "making vidya" is such an ambiguous goal. make a playable NES 2D game or modern AAA?

You are WRONG anon!

>>717722634
lmao