Whatever happened to the games that live between something like Journey and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? Do those games even exist anymore? CraveOnline examine.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
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RIP middleclass
I imagine most people won't spend £40 on a lesser product when there are enough top class games out there. You wouldn't pay £15k for a mondeo if ferraris were the same price
Great piece. My wife and I actually have to budget my gaming in yo our monthly budget because they are so expensive. Though games do quickly go to deal pricing so that is re invigorating that middle class in a way
Isn't this exactly the situation that the major kickstarter projects are trying to resolve?
Project Eternity, Wasteland 2, Shadowrun Returns, Torment ect are all games that are made by experienced studios and are looking to provide much more content than a typical indie title can and yet are clearly not a AAA title in terms of production values. That sounds like mid-tier development to me.
I think the days of large publishers funding mid tier games are dead, at least for the moment, but I don't think that means mid tier development itself is dead.
My solution usually:
* Buy 1-2 games you really want that will last you a bit.
play those and wait until the other 4-5 games you want drop in price.
* Either trade in games or wait for a deal at Gamestop and get the games much cheaper only 1-2 months later.
Having a backlog helps with this. There are tons of 3DS games I'm going to want but don't have the money to get right now. So I'll play my DS games I've yet to beat in the mean time until those game prices drop or GS has a deal or trade in deal or I'll use a coupon from the powerup rewards or something.
If you plan around your purchases you can get amazing deals.
I saved $300 at GS last year using the Power up rewards thing.
I know GS isn't for everyone and some hate it but the option is out there to get games you know you want, for much cheaper, either used or new.