There are differences between a studio, publisher, and distributor. Sometimes they are the same corpo, sometimes they aren’t. But whenever you see some enshitification of games, it’s most likely the publisher. You might want to direct your anger at Sony in this case, not the studio.
It’s a more general comment aimed at the overall attempt to completely destroy the industry by some people. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if a decade from now every large game company but Indies wasn’t struggling to keep their doors open.
They’ve backed themselves into a corner with this expectation that every game be an open world game with hyper realistic graphics. The risingg costs are their own fault.
There’s always a dissonance between the money you can do, and the money you think you can do.
Sony “see” companies like Google, Facebook (and alike) making huge profit by hooking up their server with people’s wallets. Sony see these companies not hiring artists, authors, directors, operators, developers. Sony see these companies huge flood of money thanks one simple, magical mantra “just, make, one, account”.
Honestly it’s talked about a lot. Isolated to online you would think most people are against these kinds of things but reality is the average player just doesn’t care. These companies have the statistics that show how much they’re making vs losing and when they take a chance and it sticks all the other companies align with the new money making way. That’s how we have gotten to where we are. This HD2 thing will blow over for now but it’ll come back in other ways. Likely next time you’ll see them just launch the game with the requirement and it won’t be stopped as it was this time. The issue this time was they did it after it got ridiculously popular especially with the PC community the community that sticks to being PC instead of consoles so trying to force them won’t ever work like that.
We can hate it all we want but sadly we can’t out weigh the immense amount of people who don’t care.
Why are studios trying so hard lately to drive the entire game industry into the ground? I don’t get it.
There are differences between a studio, publisher, and distributor. Sometimes they are the same corpo, sometimes they aren’t. But whenever you see some enshitification of games, it’s most likely the publisher. You might want to direct your anger at Sony in this case, not the studio.
It’s a more general comment aimed at the overall attempt to completely destroy the industry by some people. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if a decade from now every large game company but Indies wasn’t struggling to keep their doors open.
They’ve backed themselves into a corner with this expectation that every game be an open world game with hyper realistic graphics. The risingg costs are their own fault.
There’s always a dissonance between the money you can do, and the money you think you can do.
Sony “see” companies like Google, Facebook (and alike) making huge profit by hooking up their server with people’s wallets. Sony see these companies not hiring artists, authors, directors, operators, developers. Sony see these companies huge flood of money thanks one simple, magical mantra “just, make, one, account”.
Honestly it’s talked about a lot. Isolated to online you would think most people are against these kinds of things but reality is the average player just doesn’t care. These companies have the statistics that show how much they’re making vs losing and when they take a chance and it sticks all the other companies align with the new money making way. That’s how we have gotten to where we are. This HD2 thing will blow over for now but it’ll come back in other ways. Likely next time you’ll see them just launch the game with the requirement and it won’t be stopped as it was this time. The issue this time was they did it after it got ridiculously popular especially with the PC community the community that sticks to being PC instead of consoles so trying to force them won’t ever work like that.
We can hate it all we want but sadly we can’t out weigh the immense amount of people who don’t care.