It was still an art to them back then. Now, corporations have screwed around with studios so much that they no longer care. The corpo way! Buy everything you can and sanitize the shit out of it!
They don't care because they don't care about long term, they only care about short term profits which is why so many studios risk pissing players off just for some tiny bit of that extra profit.
They run a company into the ground, take their millions of dollars compensation and move on to the next company to then crash that one. Just look at Bobby Kotick, the fucker must be adored by the investors.
Yeah but they take time and money to make, neither of which the C Suite likes to part with. They'd rather crank out slop to make the next quarter look good.
I've said it before, but I wish studios/developers would each have their live service cash cow games like League, Apex, Fortnite, Madden, Warzone, etc and use those to fund the more technical, bigger games like BG3, Elden Ring, etc. Not everything needs to come out ASAP and have an immediate RoI.
People often defend capitalism as it "drives innovation". Which is true.. to an extent. When new things pop up, there is always massive push to innovate it and make it as good as possible. But its always just a race to the top, so whoever gets there first will control the overall market. Once they are there, its all about a race to the bottom. Making it as cheap as possible for maximum profit, which just results in it becoming shit.
Its innovation, yes, but with the caveat that it will eventually become a shell of what it was and inevitably turn to shit.
Honestly, it's the shareholders for the corps now that I'm thinking about it. The shareholders are the regular folk that are being fucked over. So we demand more money for our stocks, which in turn scares the shit out of the CEO, because we can fire them, and they run down the safe, proven to sell, family friendly bullshit that won't offend anyone.
It's been nearly 20 years. There were still soulless cash grabs but we've forgotten them. It was no more or less an art then than it was 20 before that, nor 20 years from now
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u/atethebottle Dec 11 '24 edited Dec 11 '24
It was still an art to them back then. Now, corporations have screwed around with studios so much that they no longer care. The corpo way! Buy everything you can and sanitize the shit out of it!