ease of access tends to be the death of everything

we were better off when the barrier to entry was learning assembler for some new console architecture

lowest common denom production begins, everyone loses

or bitwise compiler optimizations for x86

making games used to be really hard

and there was a huge number of people who could not cut it and never got out the door

so only the fanatically dedicated would ever see their game published

also the fact that various weirdos and dreggs shitted up every major company at every level

well, i mean, here's the reality

its not just a bunch of old nerdy white guys making cool shit

you are a gaming company, all your actual real developers and artists who were good have retired

you want to leverage your brand but you can't make a good product

what can you do to have an audience?

you can prostitute your brand to political causes

it's pretty apaprent too..."writing" in games was pretty good because of the strange perfection of the team of Interplay and Black Isle....now it's almost all women

and...yeah...

ya thats probably a good point

in hopes that adherents to that ideology will buy stuff even if it is crap

mr. laughter is right

mass effect: andromeda made $110 million in revenue

how many times can u really do that tho?

pump out a shit product on name alone

in the first quarter of release

who knows

we know bethesda has done it like

I mean, blizzard at this point is going all out on "on and off platform censorship and banning based on written speech" and not actually developing games and they make an absolute wrecking each month, even WITH sub drops

how many times now?

starwars seems to be failing at it only 4 movies in

okay, we can say like, you ruin a brand with 4 bad movies

or a game franchise

but let's say there was a good star wars tomorrow

how many people would come back and be like

FINALLY THEY ARE FIXING THE MISTAKES

thats true

and think of how much the paid youtube support crew would push it so they can make money from clicks

its a brand thatll never really die cuz people have such fond memories

the feedback loop for branding is pretty severe

yeah

and now that the bar is lower they only have to make something halfway decent to get massive praise

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