Johnny R is just trying to save his own ass after screwing the shareholders with 2022’s stock decline, by screwing the devs instead. Niiice, real classy move Johnny. 

I agree so much to this. There are bazillion peeps on the planet who are younger, older, stupider, wiser, chiller, anxious etc. than ”you” and if ”you” have a problem seeing this you are a liability to the community. Different strokes for different folks.

Dont listen to Crevox, I like the way you write.

Ive been working as an artist and making a pretty good life out of it for 15+ years. Been drawing all my life. I can honestly say that talent is more like an abstraction for apptitude paired with passion. So ”talent” for art (picture making) for example; You have the natural ability to cordinate eye and hand plus the…

Uhm care to explain that? Maybe thats what you see but thats rarely how inhouse politics function. Many studios still rely on a male auteur/creative director to ”steer the ship”. 

So priorities are good? Cant have the cake and eat it at the same time buddy!

Uhm the world is alot bigger than the states my friend. Scandinavia has superfast and cheap internets because some folks in the 90s realized internet was gonna be big and needed pre-emptive infrastructure. Blame your government for sleeping on this. 

Alot of this could be circumvented if developers, publishers and investors talked more openly about the process behind making games and the challenges therein. Is it is now, the gap between consumers/fans and those involved in development is crazy big. Like most people I talk to who are gamers think they know how the…

Yeah, this is all, like, your opinion man. I see what you mean but Im wondering if you are not making argument for arguments sake.

But the creative process CAN be horrendous. Its not always fun and somehow you are driven to suscept yourself to it anyways. I think the devs wants to lean into this.

So this happened with Godhand as well. Pretty much noone but Shinji knew what was going on during development.

No you dont have to establish rules to make it interesting breaking them. That sort of box-thinking is exactly what hinders interesting development.

The math is easy ya’ll. An extra 10 munnies on top is, if the game sells 10 mill copies (which zelda did after just one week) is an extra 100 million dollars. Theyre just not gonna say no to that if they think they can get it. Its like, I dont even understand why ya’ll are dicussing this like its some sorta debate.

No but you are being pretty blunt about your opinions about arts functionality in society. Everything you have is based on art/culture/imagination. If you wanna downplay it and feed the idea that ”companies only want to make money” I think you are wrong. Plenty executives understand the idea that that in showbizz good…

How is that you think these writers all care about money first and art second? Are you a writer in Hollywood or have any prior experience? 

Uhm, companies who operate in showbiz whish is a bizz that producess art /culture as entertainment so I think its fair to say; if you are a company who only cares about munnies, choose a different bizz.

Although its not true only want to make AAA games. They sign up small stuff for their playstation store all the time. Also put alot of funding into smaller developers etc. So its basically not true at all what the article is trying to say about ”prestige”

The executives are NOT doing their jobs to the letter. They are just running their shareholders errands. Showbiz is not just bizzz its also Show and too many folks now working in the industry pantheons dont give a flying fuck about show, only munnies. They should go deal with real estate or sum such instead of trying…

Ok hot take here; alot of gamers play thousands of hours of videogames every year and then think they know how to make videogames. So early access and the likes gets flooded by naive ”know-it-alls” who feel entitled to an opinion about ”whats best for the game”.

Well, games do make profit while in development. They have speculative value. Ginja is pretty much correct on most accounts. Ive also worked in the industry almost 15 years now and im sorry guys but theres just more going on than folks on the outside can understand without having some experience on the inside. Its…