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Message: [QUOTE="medisinn, post: 65330, member: 157567"] Gaming is fine. AAA gaming is struggling, but that's because it's been infected by corporate bullshit. Out of touch executives make out of touch decisions and the hard-working developers and artists are the ones who pay the price. It's the same with movies, TV, journalism, etc. The corpos looking to cut costs and minimize effort to maximize revenue don't care about art, because they aren't artists. Business and art are inherently different, there's of course overlap but what is creatively fulfilling isn't what looks best to investors and vice versa. It reminds me of when I worked for a plant laboratory startup and the CEO and sales people exaggerated our production numbers and had us send out bad-looking rootstock because it looked good to investors. Which is fine, until it's not because you pissed off all of your customers and clients with a bad product. These companies know the games aren't ready, but because they don't want to upset the shareholders, buggy and incomplete games get pushed out, and it's like there's an assumption that they will still sell well and be liked by people. Followed by surprise when it doesn't happen. Indie gaming is doing well, and has the capacity to be doing AMAZINGLY well at any given moment. On any given day, a game can come out that can go viral because it does something new or does something familiar in a new or satisfying way. You never know where the next Balatro will come from. Konami isn't making Castlevania games for some reason? That's okay, indie devs will make great metroidvanias and sidescrollers influenced by them, like Bloodstained, Infernax, and a whole bunch more. Squaresoft won't port Parasite Eve to modern platforms or remake it? Someone is making .45 Parabellum Bloodhound inspired by Parasite Eve. That's not to mention romhacks and translations of games that people do for free out of love for the game(s). Technology is no longer an issue, developers seem to have the means to go for whatever style suits them, and more developers should do that. A game doesn't have to look realistic to sell well. I mean, there's also mobile gaming, which apparently makes more than console and PC gaming combined. Even if the industry imploded, mobile games would keep things going until the more conventional games are able to be made again. [/QUOTE]

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