Does The Future Of Games Look Kinda Bleak To You?

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

One of the few positives in this gaming generation is that it's cheaper than it was 20 years ago. You can still purchase a AAA title for $50 or $60, just like you could in 1995. Adjusted for inflation you're paying LESS for superior technology. Of course publishers and developers are furiously trying to close that loophole with pathetic DLC and other nickle and dime techniques.

 

[Blackout]

That they could probably pull off

I wanted to say the hardest part is finding people who can character design, level design, prop design, weapon design, and programmer but won't break the budget. But that could be because I'm a designer

@Data-Hawk knows about this.

I think he wants to make a game designer company.

 

[winb83]

One of the few positives in this gaming generation is that it's cheaper than it was 20 years ago. You can still purchase a AAA title for $50 or $60, just like you could in 1995. Adjusted for inflation you're paying LESS for superior technology. Of course publishers and developers are furiously trying to close that loophole with pathetic DLC and other nickle and dime techniques.

Back in 1995 when you purchased a game you got the whole game. in 2015 games are sold in sections.They're conceptualized and a decent chunk of the content is gated off as DLC. you get at most 2/3 rds of a title for $60 now. The rest of the game is part of the season pass and extra DLC meaning full games cost $90-$100.

 

[Data-Hawk]

@Data-Hawk knows about this.

I think he wants to make a game designer company.

Good Looking Breh..yeah I've talked with @MarsPunka before about game dev.

to add to this thread though. IMHO the reason for the increased budgets is you have alot more people employed that have nothing to do with the game directly. Community managers, Marketing. etc Sure the technology is more advanced now, but most companies use existing engines.

edit: forgot to add, you guys forget about the generation that grows up only knowing about DLC's. If that's all they know, they won't have a problem with it. For example my son stay bothering me about buying in-game weapons for him. Its all he knows.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

The problem with this gaming industry is this is an industry that doesn't respect it's customer. It's one simply looking to exploit their customer any way possible.

Mainstream titles are simply made to be avenues to make money. I'm not saying one shouldn't be in business only to make money but there should be a love there. Whatever love of making games developers have isn't well conveyed once the publisher gets their hands on the product and modifies it into some twisted platform to squeeze money out of customers.

Look at GTA V. Rockstar at the very least should have put out the PC and PS4 / XBO versions at the same time but they really knew if they staggered the releases impatient customers would purchase both. We've got customers buying the same game 3 times.

That's another problem with gaming is the customers typically bend over spread their asscheeks and let publishers and console makers have their way with them. Very rarely do gamers stand up against these businesses. In many cases gamers apologize and defend these companies for them essentially doing free public relations work for game companies.

The bottom line is this. If they don't start respecting their customers eventually this whole thing is gonna collapse on itself. As I get older I notice my backlog growing. I start to notice I purchase titles on day one intending to play them but never getting around to it and find that several months later the game is half what I paid for it and I've still got it sitting there sealed on a shelf.

I'm gonna start to be a more selective customer. Not interested in being part of this industry's problem anymore.

There is literally no reason to buy games on day one. Within a month they are half priced and are patched to actually function properly. I buy MAYBE 1 game a year day one and thats only certain games. I can wait. If you wait a year,which I usually do you can get the goty editions that come with the over priced dlc paid for by idiots.

Id rather buy 3 games for $19.99 brand new then buy one brand new day one and have a broken game I cant play properly anyway.

 

[winb83]

There is literally no reason to buy games on day one. Within a month they are half priced and are patched to actually function properly. I buy MAYBE 1 game a year day one and thats only certain games. I can wait. If you wait a year,which I usually do you can get the goty editions that come with the over priced dlc paid for by idiots.

Id rather buy 3 games for $19.99 brand new then buy one brand new day one and have a broken game I cant play properly anyway.

Some of us spend years waiting to play these games. By the time they're released we don't wanna wait anymore. That being said there's only certain games I will play from day one and finish and most of the games I've been buying aren't of that category. I bought Assassin's Creed Unity day one and played it a few times the first week and haven't touched it since. People recently were getting the game for $20. I paid $38 all things considered with GCU at Best Buy.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

Some of us spend years waiting to play these games. By the time they're released we don't wanna wait anymore. That being said there's only certain games I will play from day one and finish and most of the games I've been buying aren't of that category. I bought Assassin's Creed Unity day one and played it a few times the first week and haven't touched it since. People recently were getting the game for $20. I paid $38 all things considered with GCU at Best Buy.

Whats another few months then if youve been waiting years? Its just impatience really.

 

[lutha]

For now we're still okay. Lots of dope AAA games to come in the next 12 months. But yeah, the mid-sized publisher is being phased out. In five years, it'll probably be

EA
Activison
Ubisoft
Bethesda
Warner Bros
Square Enix
Take Two
Namco
Blizzard
Valve

Konami looks like it's finished. Capcom is probably gonna get weaker or get bought out. Take Two I can see being bought out my Actvision or some shyt.

Warner Bros, I like em, hope they stick around. It's good having a powerful movie studio on the games industry. I hope Disney tries stepping into the game again.

they're not finished, they just have switched to making tablet and phone kinda games mostly...also, they are in the gambling industry.....

 

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they're not finished, they just have switched to making tablet and phone kinda games mostly...also, they are in the gambling industry.....

yeah most def, I meant more as far as making AAA games, it looks like they're on their way out. They won't go bankrupt or nothing like that.

 

[lutha]

as for this thread: you're right, the gaming industry's future is bleek just like music, movies, tv, autos, planes, etc....oh wait, those industries still around?...just like gaming will be....there's too much money being made to stop the industry....the industry will adjust and we'll get smaller studios backed by the big boys to make smaller games, while the big boys worry about the AAA titles....

also, we gamers have just as much blame in the state of the industry as the devs do....we the ones that only bought AAA sequels instead of everything, so the games moved that way, which means less games....we the ones that demand a lot of technical shyt in games when it's not needed like 1080p, so the costs of games are going up; which means less games...we the ones that bytch and complain about not having games, but when companies rush out games, we bytch and complain about that....hell, even if the game is fun as hell to play, we rush to bytch and complain anyway just cause that's what people like to do; so that's meaning less games.....yall muthafukkas want a brighter future in the industry, along with asking for change from the devs, yall gotta start changing shyt yall do too....

 

[lutha]

yeah most def, I meant more as far as making AAA games, it looks like they're on their way out. They won't go bankrupt or nothing like that.

oh, ok...i get what you saying....I still disagree...they still gonna make mgs games, those shyts sell like hotcakes...in fact, think they finna start putting them out faster now that kojami gone...

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Back in 1995 when you purchased a game you got the whole game. in 2015 games are sold in sections.They're conceptualized and a decent chunk of the content is gated off as DLC. you get at most 2/3 rds of a title for $60 now. The rest of the game is part of the season pass and extra DLC meaning full games cost $90-$100.

And even then the $90 is still cheaper than $60 in 1995

And that's bullshyt to say that the games are sold in sections. Compared to a game in 1995 the average game in 2015 has an enormous amount of content, resources, and work put into them.

Most DLC is not even worth buying. You get a lot of game for $60 in most cases.

 

[Rigby.]

DLCs are fukking ridiculous


I gotta pay $15 to play with Jason Voorhees and get some extra costumes you nikkas could've put in the game anyway?

And DLCs on Xenoverse are absolutely insane

All DLCs are crazy, gaming has been boring as shyt for the past 2 years

You know how bad this year is? DB Xenoverse is a serious GOTY candidate and the shyts like a 8 at best

 

[Rigby.]

I would LOVE to see indie studios get a crack at ips. You see it happen here and there. For example sly cooper 4.

But studios like capcom are just sitting on ips for no reason. Well. Lack of funds is a reason.

nikkas are literally masturbating over Spyro, Crash, Half-Life, and a college football game

C'mon industry

 

[Hagendas]

the sky is falling the sky is falling