WC - Gamers live in a substantially different time than they did 15 years ago. Back then Nintendo was king and Sony had only been in the market for a couple years with the Playstation. We had game cartridges and memory cards and rumble packs. 3D gaming was a new and novel leap in technology, and it blew our minds. Most importantly, it was still a relatively obscure hobby that appealed to a certain niche of people.
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
15 reasons seem far too small... but after all has been said and pointed, gota admit, Modern Gaming has only gotten better in terms of Tech, something that drove our industry out of the toy concept and overshadowed game quality. However it think that when our Tech reaches both our Eye and Mind limits, we might start seeing a return to when it was all about the game and your experince.
This is how we have been evolving in this tech industry.
If people didn't complain then they wouldn't be people.
The death of many good franchises
Thank you for number 3 and number 1, and for not completely disregarding motion control gaming, as I believe it has some potential and can produce great games/gaming experience, it just isn't ready yet (if accuracy can improve, then maybe it can start appearing in more types of games)
Good article overall.
Don't agree with achievements, online gaming, budgets, and DLC. I feel no need to get achievements or trophies, I barely ever look at them. Online gaming is fun and if you don't want to listen to people then you can be in party chat or mute everyone in the game...not that hard. Big budgets don't make a game good, but they certainly help. And the price of games doesn't go up, they're less expensive now than they used to be. DLC extends the life of a game if it's done right. You can't tell me stuff like the Lost and the Damned, Ballad of Gay Tony, and Undead Nightmare are ripoffs.