The Gaming Industry Needs To Die For It's Own Good.

[iDoom46]

You seem to be overreacting a bit here, your tone is fairly alarmist.

Yes, the gaming industry has it's problems at the moment. But that doesn't mean the whole thing should be disposed of. Every system has problems, nothing is perfect, but you don't see any other industries self-imploding every time they run into an issue.

You don't wipe the whole board clean just because of a few problems. These problems came in incrementally and that's the way we have to solve them, like weight loss. Just nuking the entire playing field and going back to square one does nothing to help anybody, nor does it prevent these problems from coming back up again in the future.

 

[hooksashands]

I get the unsettling feeling Xanthious wrote this while building fruit basket bombs. Let's not do anything rash, okay buddy? The buyouts and moneydumps and sequel cash-ins are problems we've faced since the start, the inevitable result of success over decades. We all want to go back to the way things were, when game studios were just 8 or 12 developers making something out of nothing in a year's time or less... but we can't, that age has passed. Still, to bring everything to a halt isn't a conclusive thought, unless you are willing to trade some stagnation for total obliteration, which is a madman's philosophy.

Your heart is in the right place but you are refusing to look at this rationally.

 

[Anxxiety]

ITT: Another poor, jobless gamer nerd raging because they have to actually pay for games.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

No it doesn't. Good game are still being made. People are complaining that major companies are remaking the same games every year like COD but can you blame them when you are all going to keep buying it?

 

[theheroofaction]

It does, huh?


I get it, I mean How dastardly it is that people try to make money for their work.

Truly these are dark times when obvious sellouts like Deus ex: human revolution get rave reviews based solely on the gaming experience.

Truly despicable that gamers are so much yearning for change that they respond positively to announcements by those Bethesda devils that skyrim will play radically differently than it's predecessors.

Utterly tragic that independent developers are slowly becoming the monetary giants they seek to overthrow

And, darkest of all, the absolute catastrophe that the hardcore group and the blasphemous "free Gamers" are cross contaminating, truly these are the end times for our poor art form

[/sarcasm]

Seriously, if you don't want to play the house rule, then find another house to play in

 

[Kurea]

Entertainment media is all about death and rebirth if you ask me. It always goes in cycles. The film industry is in the same cesspool of pandering shlock currently (see: Transformers). Sadly, the ones with the real power are the consumers, and if something works for the publishers, we're going to see more of the same. If you want to see change, you have to make it happen yourself. Don't like the assembly line of copy-pasted CoD clones coming out year after year? Don't buy them. Want to see more of a certain type of game? Demand it, and buy games that you do like and want to see more of. Have an original idea for a new style of gameplay? Take a whack at developing, but know that you're in for an uphill climb. It feels pretty bleak to me too, but with the emergence of dozens of indie developers we're seeing nowadays, I do feel rather optimistic. I think we're on the verge of seeing a major shift away from corporate-controlled gaming. We've all but reached the graphics plateau already. All that's left is to await games that are actually fun and memorable. And for humanity to evolve a bit faster, and learn to understand what really matters in a game.

Just my two cents though. I don't *want* to be a cynic, I really don't.

 

[KingCrInuYasha]

While it's clear that you're very passionate about this I believe that you are somewhat misguided and don't really understand what the implications of your ideal rehash of the video game crash would be, in short, total abandomment of the video game industry (like I said before, right now we're too big to survive a total collapse like that, we have far too much to lose).

I understand fully the implications of what I'm saying and what I'm saying is (to quote myself from an earlier thread) the video game industry in it's current form needs to die a quick and hopefully painful death. I have nothing but total and utter disdain for this industry anymore. It's all about how the publishers/developers can get every last penny out of our wallets while screwing us over as hard as they can legally get away with (and sometimes even illegally get away with). Just look around at some of the bullshit EA has tried to pull lately with the TOS of Origin (yeah you can monitor every file on my HDD when you get in line to kiss my ass).

The people in charge now care nothing for actual games and everything about profits and control. The people who actually care about gaming and the customers are being driven out of the industry like cockroaches running from light. Customers are treated like criminals and the actual criminals enjoy a better experience than the paying customers more times than not.

Again, I want the video game industry to fucking die, and die horribly. I want to see anyone who currently works in this disgrace of an industry unemployed. I have no use or sympathy for this industry and the sooner piracy and other factors drive more studios to close their doors and cause more people to be unemployed the better. This industry is corrupted from the ground up and if it is to ever be rebuilt into something palatable again this current incarnation needs to be burned to the ground leaving nothing remaining.

I stopped being a paying customer a long time ago. It will be a cold day in hell before any maker of video games sees a penny from me for a long time to come. I still play mind you, but I do so in ways where I milk Gamestop's return policy on used games on a weekly basis. In the past year and a half I've given Gamestop 50 dollars for a used title and have to date played most releases through to completion happy in the fact that none of my money is going to the parasites in charge of this industry while I enjoy their products legally for as close to free as makes no difference.

Wrapping this up I will say again that the video game industry needs to meet a quick death if only for it's own good. My only regret is that I am only one person and am unable to do more to hasten it's demise.

And while we're at it, why don't we do the same thing with music, art, film, or television? Or better yet, everything in the world? [/sarcasm]

There's nothing more pathetic that someone thinking you can magically fix something by going the Seymour Guado route.