Hot take but I blame gamers stuffing the pockets of these sort of publishers by lapping up early access and pre orders. It gives publishers no incentive whatsoever to change their ways because they still have the only thing they truly care about: money.
It’s absolutely the gamers. They’re in a competition with Apple fans to see who will purchase literally anything a company makes. Patient gamers is where it’s at. Buy the good games a few years after release with all the bugs fixed, extra content, and on sale.
with the enormous amount of old games available for trivial cost, and games like terraria, stardew valley, and deep rock galactic which cost less than a AAA title and the devs just sort of refuse to stop updating their game for free, we’re at a point where dropping 70 dollars on a game is just self harm.
Also:
boggles my mind that game devs don’t unionize, like… what do they expect? of course they’re gonna be exploited without a union
I imagine that if they try to unionize, the large game companies will just cut off their income until they either become bankrupt or until they crack.
And then they will get their ass fined in a way that they will go bankrupt instead.
Comedian Frank Caliendo used to do an impression of John Madden:
“You know what I’m thankful for? Kids who pay sixty bucks each year for what is basically the same video game. A-heh-heh-heh, cha-ching!”
But but but! The next CoD has different gun skins! That makes it a completely different game that isn’t like the last game at all! /s
I actually moved the artist’s information to the middle of the image so that I didn’t crop it out. So thank you ;)
