Another important variable is that, historically, that $70 is extremely low for what a lot of “average gamers” expect from a game. A top-tier RPG in 1995 cost $80, which is about $160 in 2023 dollars.

Have you ever had a job before

This is like going to Walmart and holding a cashier to blame for how much something costs, or any number of shitty practices that Walmart employs.  No, the responsibility lies with their management who’s responsible for deciding how the game’s monetized and where resources are being allocated.  I’m not going to blame…

fuck the deadlines

Take the time, fuck the deadlines, balance (as best you can, as developers) your work and life schedules - we (gamers) will still be here when you feel your game is completed and up to snuff. We will pay the money and applaud your efforts.

Counterpoint - slightly - there are more resources available to learn about games ahead of purchase than perhaps any other products on the market. That isn’t to say we can’t criticize or get annoyed when those games turn out to be bad (or even just not what we expect), but they have ample opportunity to conduct one…

The idea of trying to enjoy art without acknowledging the conditions under which that art was created is just so foreign to me.

It really doesn’t help that angry streamer videos are far more likely to get attention.

I’m honestly a little shocked at the straightforward admission that folks don’t care about the human beings who create the things they love.

It’s a very good way to keep yourself misinformed (if you care to know what’s causing the problems you hate in the games industry, listening to game devs is probably a good place…

My favourite take on any of this is always ‘the devs are greedy shits’ as if they can control the state of the projects they work on to any impactful degree past the ticket of work they’ve got to slave over for that particular missed tea with their loved ones this weekend.

Honestly, it’s no different than what passes for political discourse nowadays, which is even more sad.

This is a good point, but I took a look at the Ghost of Tsushima article you linked, which seemed like a good comparison given that it’s a purely single player game. That article rounds up all the major updates, notable news, and other events surrounding the game in the first six months, which makes sense for a six…

Seems weird they didn’t ditch the ugly design of the regular PS5.

Like, fuck JK Rowling and her stupid racist fantasy world, and especially fuck people who claim to be allies but bought and played this game anyway, but it’s 6 months post-release and this game is a single-player RPG. I don’t think it’s a sign of anything that a lot fewer people are playing it every day.

You got my click, but not my respect.  Shame that you’ve circled back to the corpse to try to get a few more heartbeats out of it.

It makes zero sense to keep Gadot on as Wonder Woman while at the same time throwing Cavil and Affleck overboard and saying you are starting fresh with a new vision. Cavil was an excellent Superman, it was Snyder’s tone and scripts that failed Superman. Ben Affleck also was a good choice for Batman even though he…

Her quote in Flaunt, as quoted in Variety was ““I was invited to a meeting with James Gunn and Peter Safran,” Gadot said, “and what they told me, and I’m quoting: ‘You’re in the best hands. We’re going to develop Wonder Woman 3 with you. [We] love you as Wonder Woman— you’ve got nothing to worry about.’ So time will…

It’s insane to me that you haven’t seen Andor.

It’s almost as if Joe Rogan were a vacuous douchebag with no real expertise or strong opinion on any topic; a “go with the flow” kind of bro who routinely spouts a bunch of nonsense that millions of fellow vacuous bros find “entertaining.”