People who try to use either woke or anti-woke as a marketing tactic to sell their games, always lose to people who just focus on making a good game and tell a good story with great characters. All for more great games with diverse casts, but don't let one become the enemy of the other. That just does us a disservice at this point.
Another brain rotted away by rabid anti-wokeism. This is an addiction, and your life is worse because of it. The other answers cover the matter at hand well, I just wanted to say that this is no way to live your life.
If you can't enjoy something any time it has a woman in it, because you impulsively have to make up some reason why that's "woke" i.e. "bad", you're not gonna have a good time.
For publicly traded companies, it's not specifically venture capital but private investors. Nearly every publicly traded video game company had a share price peak in 2021 (Take-Two, Ubisoft, Tencent, Nexon). Interestingly, Nintendo did not.
A really good video about private equity's impact on the gaming space here: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
For venture capital more spec...
Investment firms poured money into the gaming industry in 2020 - 2021, blindly believing the growth seen during Covid, when more people stayed inside, was sustainable. Then the lockdowns ended, and inevitably companies that had been pumped up on venture capital cash had to do massive layoffs.
We need to rethink private finance entirely, because it is fuelling all sorts of unsustainable bubbles that wreck people's lives. It's finance for the sake of money, instead of...
@VariantAEC Conservatives just aren't very good at living up to their stated values whether it's historical accuracy, "family values" or protecting people's lives or the environment. Modern-day conservatism is really only about protecting capital and the very rich, and everything else is just a bait-and-switch to convince anyone outside that small group of people to vote for them.
Cutting taxes, but only for the rich, and cutting life-saving regulation...
A key ingredient in any conservative project is to get people to forget what the past was really like
Pretty cool that Fallout 5 will release in the same year Fallout 3 takes place in. 2277
Microsoft is the king of acquiring companies and running them completely into the dirt, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were to blame
You don't have to be a communist to tell that something is deeply broken with running the videogame industry entirely on a profit-based motive. It has lead to massive consolidation (the risk of making a single unsuccessful game is too big for small companies), and an overflow of safe and formulaic games, as well as a focus on creating addictive formulas that are less about the experience or enjoyment of the player, and more about getting people hooked.
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I'm not an artist, I'm a consumer, but I'm not sure "Only the people who work in the industry would say that" is as much of a critique as you think it is? If the people working inside the industry say that, then they're probably onto something?
Also, if you think maximizing operating profit aligns with artistic and social value, I don't know what to tell you.
You have to understand that to Konami this is not a problem. The priorities of a company in a capitalist economy is to maximize profits, often in a very short-term way.
"Capitalists who don't care about fans or game quality, are still able to maximize their profits"
Just another day in the games industry.
Max operating profit does not align with max artistic or social value.
GT has had its highs and lows, but it's always been very easy to see that it's made by people who love cars
Not often you read a preview that doesn't mince words about the bad stuff.
So by your logic, he shouldn't really be blamed for the result of two projects he directed, but should get a lot of credit for the FFVII remake that he co-directed with Toriyama?
I don't blame Nomura for the delays, but the execution and final product. And ofc there are more people than just him that deserve blame (the choice to develop an engine and game simultaneously on Versus XIII, for instance, was a questionable one) -- but he was the director.
The Nomura era has been a real drop in quality.
FFXV development took a decade, and then final product felt really unfinished. KH3 downright sucked. The FFVII remake is pretty good, but then it's based on one of the greatest games of all time, and adds a lot of Nomura-style mysticism that ends up dumbing down the story.
Thank Jesus. One of the best dev studios Sony has. They really need to keep a strong 1st party lineup if they want to stay on top.
100 hour work weeks is not an effective way to manage your employees. Lots of studies show that anything past 50 hour work weeks for programmers, entrepreneurs, etc, makes them LESS effective long term (AKA they do more during 50 hour weeks than they do in 60 hour weeks).
As someone who's worked close to 100 hour weeks I know how damn stupid it is, and how much you can get done in 4 hours if you're rested and able to focus. 100 hour work weeks is bad planning, nothi...
Crysis looked MINDBLOWING in 2007 (at least the few frames I could render on my PC did), still looks good today, which is an amazing feat. But has definitely aged when you consider the wow factor it once had. Braid is a game from 2007 that's future proof bc the graphical style is so simple. Looked good then, looks as good now.