EPTWas I just naive when I was younger, or did companies actually care?
I am not happy with the gaming industry
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UmmTheHobo
United States650 Posts
Was I just naive when I was younger, or did companies actually care? | ||
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Monokeros
United States2493 Posts
... What you want more of an answer? Both, for reals. | ||
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DamageControL
United States4222 Posts
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Chef
10810 Posts
I don't understand what you're complaining about... As long as StarCraft exists, I'm content. I've liked every Mario and Zelda game I ever played, except maybe TWW... There's random shoot em up Bond games that are always cool, the Final Fantasy series is usually okay... You get odd gems like Body Harvest and Eternal Darkness too... Super Smash Brothers and Mario Kart are good games to play with a bunch of people... Half Life has always been considered a good series... I don't know what you're talking about really... If a game is bad, don't buy it and let the company lose money on it... It's their prerogative to make games that are good, because if logic serves me, that's what sells. | ||
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Nitrogen
United States5345 Posts
On July 26 2008 06:05 UmmTheHobo wrote: Whenever I think about the gaming industry I become unhappy. So many horrid companies like Bethesda and EA. Do they even care about making good games? Or do they just want money? It makes me sad. Even nintendo is making less quality games, I used to love nintendo D: Was I just naive when I was younger, or did companies actually care? a game is bad --> don't buy it bethesda used to make good games... morrowind was awesome. | ||
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DamageControL
United States4222 Posts
On July 26 2008 06:31 PsycHOTemplar wrote: How about you stop buying games you think suck... Or make your own games? I don't understand what you're complaining about... As long as StarCraft exists, I'm content. I've liked every Mario and Zelda game I ever played, except maybe TWW... There's random shoot em up Bond games that are always cool, the Final Fantasy series is usually okay... You get odd gems like Body Harvest and Eternal Darkness too... Super Smash Brothers and Mario Kart are good games to play with a bunch of people... Half Life has always been considered a good series... I don't know what you're talking about really... If a game is bad, don't buy it and let the company lose money on it... It's their prerogative to make games that are good, because if logic serves me, that's what sells. Agh why do people say the exact same things as me but more intelligently | ||
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Chef
10810 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/3817/kruemelmonsteryn0.gif) It's a mystery! | ||
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MrRammstein
Poland339 Posts
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DoctorHelvetica
United States15034 Posts
It's a market. They are only concerned with money. | ||
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Ideas
United States8145 Posts
In today's industry it is more and more expensive to make games, and very very very few developers have complete creative and distributive freedom (being able to say "it's done when it's done) such as Blizzard, Valve, and id. While publishers like EA, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo still push for creativity, they still have deadlines they need to enforce. And while I think it's still bad a lot of times (games getting released very buggy or just being a bad uncreative game), it is getting better. Actually I've noticed that it's the smaller publishers that are needing to rush out games more and more compared to the giants (EA/Activision), as they cannot afford to delay games as much as the bigger guys. It's sad that probably this time next console generation, there will only be about half as many publishers, but that's just the way businesses like this work out. | ||
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Fr33t
United States1128 Posts
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Ideas
United States8145 Posts
On July 26 2008 07:40 Fr33t wrote: EA is certainly taking its fucking time with releasing BF3 -_- One of the main things I am most unhappy with the gaming industry about is the dwindling amount of focus they are putting into developing PC games. It's always console games first now, games that are awesome and fun for 2 weeks and die out a month later. There's much more money to be made in console games though so why wouldn't they focus on them? Very sucky situation for a PC gamer. I would say that about 99% of games (regardless of platform) die out very soon. Only a very few last a long time (SC, CS, WoW). Part of the problem with PC games is that more and more people are okay with playing FPSs on consoles, and that the PC market is not nearly as big as the consoles any more (what with the "high price" of buying a gaming PC). Not to mention that already in this small market, pirating is rampant (I even remember reading an old thread from this site where people debated whether or not to pirate Bioshock). Pirating above all else has made PC gaming the pathetic essence that it is today. Because of it, essentially all developers have gone console-first multi-platform development (besides Blizzard). It's a goddamned shame, but I don't really expect any more major AAA PC-only games to be released outside Blizzard ever again (I think Crysis is the last one). At least Valve still makes their games PC-first I guess. | ||
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teh.pwnerer
Canada110 Posts
Same thing for Super Smash Bros Brawl imo. | ||
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Goosey
United States695 Posts
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