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@Anonymous #9EEF
No, the industry consistently deteriorated throughout the 2010’s as well. People have been complaining about their greed for years.

@FeatherTrap
The video game industry as been a cesspool of bad quality and terrible decisions since the very beginning of the 2020’s; the biggest companies and developers started to earn tons of money due to the COVID-19 pandemic with less effort, given the fact everybody were locked in their homes with the quarantine protocols, and one of the easiest ways to kill the time is playing games, so most of the people were spending their savings in games and consoles.

Nevertheless, the idiots forgot nothing lasts forever, and fortunately, the COVID-19 was part of those things; too bad for them tho, ’cause they thought their increasing monetary gains would be everlasting. However, as soon as things went back to normal, and people started to spent their money and time in work and other human priorities, the bubble exploded, and everything started to come down because, as I said, nothing lasts forever, what a fucking surprise!

Since then, and in a poorly attempt to recover that profit stream, the biggest video game companies have been taking a series of terrible decisions. Releasing incomplete and mediocre games is only the tip of the iceberg; please, don’t force me to talk about that time when huge companies unironically believed the NFTs were the future of the industry.

@Twiface
Indie games are polluted with this stink too, you want quality? At this point it’s time to play old games, maybe go through that steam library of yours and play those games from over a decade ago that you never touched.

The most exciting release recently was the Legacy of Kain Remaster, if that don’t tell you the absolute state of things right now, the no words will.

You’re better off using GoG to browse for quality…even if you don’t want to purchase with GoG (fair enough they’re up to some shady shit with Tencent) you can at least use it’s catalogue for what to look for, since steam is so cluttered with trash at this point it’s hard to find an old-goldie unless you know specifically what it’s name is.

Microsoft needs to start getting its studio purchases blocked. The list of devs they’ve acquired, run into the ground, and/or shuttered is getting depressing.

Hello. Yeah, I’m getting tired of AAA games coming out with bugs, problems, and promises to getting fixes in the future that SHOULD BE THERE DAY ONE. I am fucking jaded of greedy companies treating their consumers like shit, and expecting us to give them our money for a half-done job. No, thanks, go to hell.

I re-discovered my love for games with indie games, and nowadays I rarely play any new AAA game, with a few exceptions. Want me to recommend you a cool indie game no one talks about? Midnight Fight Express, 2022. Fucking nice if you love Beat ’Em Up games. Kinda sad no one mentioned in any Top of the best 2022 indie games, because the game deserves more recognition that it gets.
I assume it is because the publisher, Humble Games, published another game on the same year, and that one got much more recognition: SIGNALIS. Another little gem I would recommend you if you like old school survival horror games; damn, the game has even an option to emulate that fisheye-like characteristic old TV screens had!

I would hope that by now anyone who cares about quality in games has moved on to play indie games, either exclusively or at least 80-90% of the time. By now, everyone should be well aware of what they’re going to get from AAA.

Three years later and nothing has changed, except the number of dead studios, with even more lining up to charge over a cliff in pursuit of DEI. It’s currently an open question if BioWare, Ubisoft, and Obsidian will survive 2025 in their current forms.

There’s even a new version of ‘Gamergate 2.0’ out, since the gaming press is even more desperate now to rekindle their relevance.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
@Officer Hotpants  
Their own community warn them years ago that outlets like Kotaku was gonna thrown out hit pieces towards their game. THEY HAVE ONE JOB! It was either Ignore them like six days in fallujah or tell them to get bend like the developer of Factorio.
 
I really sick of tried seeing all these developers not standing up to their principles and allowing these busy bodies to bully them into submission. This image say it all:  

@RD8K  
Wow. Preemptively driving me away by making my first impression of their product a negative one. A bold marketing strategy, I must say.

@RD8K  
Fuck. I was just beginning to look forward to RoN again.

@Officer Hotpants  
Their not. The diversity department however is relatable due to game publishers hiring them.

@RD8K  
I don’t understand. Is Better a game publisher?

CEO Fires entire diversity department and the press is outraged  
The most based CEO since GOYA.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
They couldn’t sex-swap him since they already had his daughter. Who–you watch–will be trans.

Apparently Halo is getting a TV show, and there’s some controversy about blackwashing Captain Keyes.

@Officer Hotpants  

@Twiface  
Since this is current year/clown world, the chances of it getting made is high. Especially if it get on Netflix Because that service doesn’t care about what goes onto there platform.

@RD8K  
First episode: “That time the international hitman known as Gamergate firebombed my house and killed me. Based on a true story.”

@RD8K  
What are the chances it will actually get made? Most shows that get pitched to networks never get picked up, and Brianna Wu’s entire life is a constant stream of failure.

@EverfreeEmergencies  
Hoist the colors, brother.
 
And remember, the actual nazis-slash-destruction-of-USSR is them. USA’s current cultural situation resembles both the 30’s in Germany and 80’s in USSR; smearing a specific race while diminishing and destroying former accomplishments of the country and its people.

The more I see companies and communities falling for the nazi boogeyman the less inclined I feel to keep paying for products.