Do corporations just hate people? Once I used to think that sure you have big bourgeoisie who act in their class interests but you still has creatives who could flex their muscles and produce something great and then it would make a shit ton of money for publishers. But it seems that publishers these days just absolutely hate developers and moreso despise the consumers and now you have what the modern gaming industry is today, record profits with absolute gutted and half made releases with microtransactions to "buy" the full game. Also physical copies aren't useful anymore and digital copies can basically be "erased" at any time. All of these problems make me think that they just hate, like actually hate their consumers.
There is hope, stop playing that bullcrap and browse
https://itch.io for games.
>>26405AAA gaming is always going to be like this. They don't 'hate people', the love money, and that means making sure the games are as inoffensive and have as wide an appeal as possible. You'll very, very rarely find something original or interesting from a AAA game.
Take Hogwarts Legacy, for example. That game could have been so much more interesting, but they soullessly forced sterile gameplay elements into it. The open world, ubisoft-tier design of it is entirely intentional and likely a decision from the higher ups who wanted to imitate what they considered to be a successful formula.
Ultimately, the only interesting part of gaming is the indie scene as that is where most of the passion is.
>>26472RDR2 is a good example of a great AAA game. The only people who seemed to hate it were rightoids upset that women were allowed in the gang and that you couldn't massacre the Indians in the village, and /v/ zoomers who thought the pace was too slow. But then they squandered it and focused entirely on the continued profits of the online mode.
The Witcher 3 was also part of the swan song of big name video games before the studio entirely lost its soul with Cybershit.
>>26405>The state of the gaming industry No, that's just AAA gaming.
>Do corporations just hate people?No, worse. They don't care. They absolutely do not care. That's what caring about your class interests means: you don't care about the interests of the other class. And why should they? As long as the money's flowing, it doesn't matter. As long as the masses are brainwashed into buying tbeir games, it doesn't matter. They would turn all of you into gambling addicts if they could, that's an even easier profit.
>>33631This. Nobody should be playing AAA trash. It should be flushed down the toilet, where it belongs. Though I'm not sure that the AAA publishers will go bankrupt. Especially since the platform holders actively promote and serve them (console platforms display their crap on the front pages of their stores, Steam allows them to add Denuvo so people can't pirate their shitty games, etc.).
>>33663Sounds based. If only it happened tomorrow.
>>26495Cyberpunk was unironically the better story with better characters and ironically you should say that given the author of Witcher literally just did it as a way to make money and he really didn't give a shit about the world as I understand. It was a fluke his cash grab really paid off. Meanwhile despite the fact I hate Hollywood and its bullshit influence on gaming, and despite all wrong with CDPR and nVidia, it was a truly great and memorable story. I appreciated Cyberpunk very much honestly, far more so than the base game of Witcher 3 which pretty much sucked. Like I'm sorry but that main questline is so fucking tedious and dull, boring or annoying characters, Gaunter o'Dimm was cool. The DLC was cool. I liked the Crones, that was really memorable. But a ton of it was pretty meh, it was just a well done openworld is all. Of course all this goes to my original points, I basically just don't deal with the Americans anymore and haven't in years, this is a literally dead society. It is as spiritually dead as Calhoun's rats. It is deader than Soviet society in the late 1980s. Nobody believes in anythingabout the place, it's a fucking cash grab and always has been a ponzi scheme, the only people that're worth a damn here are the immigrants themselves maybe not entirely clicking yet on the scam, or they did and it's all about the remittances.
Anyway that's another exceptional studio and they still had all that cancer, in fairness GTA V was one of the better games ever made, shame it all goes to shit like all else because the corpo is hellbent on rock squeezing using micro, DLC, online and other bullshit scammery.
>>26442I refuse to give EA, Activision or Blizzard my money and Paradox has been added to that list
>>26424I'd literally rather smoke crystal meth and be homeless
>>34262Three words:
Blair
Witch
Project
Fucking literal student project winds up making millions of dollars. Fucking corpos try and lightning in a bottle it, fuck it up and fail hard as usual, big budget, bad returns.
This is because the exact sort of people doing this are centrally soulless. You basically just can't even make money without the fucking creatives. I mean you technically can but only when it's so watered down and soulless it becomes capeshit, which is hilarious seeing these fucking narcissists have to watch in jealous rage whenever some shit like Disco Elysium comes around and blows their hundred million dollar project out of the fucking water and gets all the awards. Oh man I can not deal with you right now f.lux please don't start making the monitor turn different colours on me
>>34270I keep underestimating how dumb, bydlo, and childlike the Western masses are true. Like I never gave a damn about Starfield. I am shocked people are still paying for this crap game. I am shocked people bought with honest to God working class wages, a fucking console version of Toddout 4. Or Toddout 76. Or that they pay for all that Paradox shit, or give EA their money.
I am shocked the amount of money people actually spend on these complete trash games, though maybe it's because they saw like one ad, are childlike and stupid and impulsive the way the corpos like it, and based on some shitty marketing thing pull the trigger then never play it past the character creator and never learn from their own mistakes.
It's almost like the Americans treat the act of buying itself like a rat pressing a cocaine button.
It would be easy to just hijack that mechanism preying on their fears and insecurities to then make them feel better about themselves after the buy. I strongly suspect this is why apple retards exist that buy iTrash.
>>34284>the Western massesHave you considered there are material reasons that AAA companies put out uninteresting intellectual property receptacles for games that isn't "le heckin sheeple aren't voting with the wallet hard enough."
Your favorite youtuber buying $200 open world games to tell you how poorly made they are is not representative of the proletariat as a whole. Slapping a national flag on that line of reasoning doesn't do anything.
>>34284starfield wasn't that bad. yeah it wasn't high art but whatever, it was a waste of time for a few dozen
actually hundred hours. you don't have to call people rats just for buying something you think wasn't that good. also it was on game pass anyways
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