Thread 719737207

And just like that 'gaems' are dead. PS2 or 360 would get fully fledged games all the time. Now these games are being cancelled left and right, or they come out and they flop. PS5's software sales are anemic.

The kids are playing Roblox and other free games rather than buying consoles so the average "gamer" is north of 30. Old gamers age out of the hobby, and kids have to replace them. But if no children replace them, then the entire system is unsustainble.

And many of thsoe adults are mono-gamers - they just play Counter Strike, or other games forever and nothing else.

The "social media-ification" of gaming is beginning. The future is slop, quickly produced, none of it with too high a budget, and quantity rather than quality. We will get to a point where making a game with the kind of polish of a PS2 game is functionally impossible. It already happened to TV and Films.

There's still some games that are good but its becoming few and far between. The companies that used to make good games are churning out dogshit and fell for the DEI meme. Western devs fell off 15 years ago and rarely produce anything worth buying. I've always preferred Japanese games and something I've never thought I'd say in my life is that there are Chinese games that are actually looking good and 2 of the ones that I have played have been really good

>>719737207 (OP)
is that a gaijin 4koma reference

Yeah and where is Gaymasutra now?
That's right in the land of the "nobody cares" kek

>>719738718
based

>>719737207 (OP)
She ended up marrying a game dev and got a nepo job as a writer on a devolver game for a game of thrones version of reigns.

I mean, the industry stop cantering to gamers... so she should be happy they took her advice.
The whole industry is collapsing for taking her suggestions, but at least the listened to leigh Alexander!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Alexander_(journalist)
Huh, her husband was removed from her Wikipedia. Surely has nothing to do with the mass firing

>>719743605
https://old.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/575bfo/ethics_leigh_alexanders_husband_gets_paid_to/

Oh shit, I forgot her husband was tied to woke consulting faggotry and some failure to disclose scandal crap.
She is hiding him cause of the backlash in GG2 Electric Boogaloo!
Well I do approve of the answers that are being generated as a response to Leigh hiding her husband from the public.
Wow, this is so wild to me.
This was on her Wikipedia like a year ago. It wasn't any kind of secret trying to be swept up and hiden that she got married or was trying to use her connections to get back in the gaming industry as a writer.

Something must have happened for her to hide this all of a sudden.

>>719737207 (OP)
Reminder that Intel pulled their advertising from gamasutra over that article and they were all on twitter absolutely seething over it.

Also the woman that wrote it (Leigh Alexander) got shitcanned not just from gamasutra, but from the entire industry. She doesn't write about games anymore.

>>719744129
>leigh alexander was a notorious alcoholic, showing up regularly to industry events and podcasts absolutely shitfaced and making a fool of herself
>husband is named Jack Daniels
my fucking sides!

>>719744129
>Something must have happened for her to hide this all of a sudden.
she and/or her husband are probably on the list

>>719744129
>drew criticism
He should be accused of fraud and taken to a civil court over this.

>>719745603
I mean its scummy to have you wife shill your project but I wouldn't go that far.
I still laugh at Leigh Alexander, but I don't wish her ill.
I don't want her in control of a website that is control of developer applications ever again... but I don't think she should be broken and destitute forever. I just want her to grow up a little. Maybe work a real job. Maybe admit she might have been a little wrong and a little too unprofessional for her position.

Even Brianna Wu, Anita Sarkisian, or Randy Harper I look at now and think "sure, maybe you deserved to be laughed at a little, but I'm over the outrage of GG"
WELL, over it for 99% of them.
Zoe Quinn caused someone to kill himself with false rape accusations, covered for her ex taking nudes of other girls while they slept, scammed everyone who funded her Chuck Tingler game and over all is a special kind of horrible person that is a scammer that hurts people. Fuck that bitch.

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>>719744797
>Shitcanned from whole industry
May wanna read her Wikipedia. Oh don't get me wrong, she suffered HARD for fucking up the "Gamers are over" campaign to damage control what the ACTUAL scandal of GG was, the Dept of Defense funding feminism and attempting to inject certain people in the industry to act like mass censors for certain antiwar ideology.
She was unemployed and living at home but her friendships didn't just go away because she fucked up. Some contacts threw her a speaking gig here and there, boing boing threw he some free lance work, some insider married her and she got 2 game writing credits under her belt while no one was looking for an inder tinder swiping game.
Personally I prefer a steady honest job with health insurance and a 401k, but for someone obsessed with "muh achievements" these were little feel good victories and her husband could pay for her existence.
Don't count on her becoming as powerful as she was at gamasutra again though. Make no mistake, these "achievements" are charity not someone genuinely trusting her with responsibility again.
>>719745286
>On a list
I don't think that's the case, I think ALL woke consultants are getting this treatmentand being married to Leigh Alexander is enough for companies to want nothing to do with you.
Smells more like "trying to get work again and needs you to temporarily dissociate" than "You ruined my career bish"
>>719745268
I fucking wish.
His last name is Quinns. AI for some reason is giving Jack Daniel's as the answer.

I used to have a subscription to Edge magazine. Each issue they had a monthly column by various people, Leigh being one of them.
Her column was the worst one every month, she wrote about complete nonsense that was at best, barely tangentially related to video games.
I always thought it was a scam, knowing she was getting paid an extremely good commission in the most expensive games magazine, to just write about completely vague horse shit.

She was a good writer I'll admit, but she knew nothing about video games and just seemed to be taking gigs pretending to write about them merely to earn a paycheque.
Apparently if you've got a massive rack you can just con your way into any position in this industry.

>Gaming is dead
>Gaming is healing
Make up your mind, fucking schizophrenic.