How Greed Ruined Gaming

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Read the title as "greed ruined gambling" and thought we might get a harrowing tale of gabi losing it all at the Las Vegas slots

just FYI, john ratatouille is not the CEO of unity anymore. He "stepped down" after the Unity runtime fee debacle last year

the sims team youtube channel has a community page where they talk about updates to the game, new items, new packs, etc. but most of the comments under those posts go along the lines of “wow thats great! fix the game.” it honestly makes me so mad just how greedy these big gaming companies are.

No joke a Blizzard manager just suggested that the industry should make a tipping system for developers. Like tell me you don't want to pay your workers without telling me you don't want to pay your workers.

Ubisoft more like Ubistupid

It really goes to show how shitty the gaming industry has gotten when Baldur’s Gate 3 won so many rewards and, yet, set a ton of “unrealistic standards” according to other grimey companies when all Larian did was release a complete game and put tons of energy, time, and love into the game. I absolutely love the game and the amount of awards it won were so deserved. They simply just reminded other companies how games used to be and that scared the other scum of the industry.

On celebrating indie games, gabi didnt mention them but Hades and Dredge are some of the coolest experiences ive ever had gaming

As an indie developer, thank you so much for putting the spotlight on indie games. I'm not saying that all indie games are amazing, but there are soooo many talented devs out there doing incredible stuff and many of these games goes unnoticed by the larger public. Check games like Dotage, Wartales, Core Keeper, Wayward, WitchHand, Songs of Conquest, Cyber Knights, Path of Achra, Dwarf Fortress. I could go on and on and on. I hope people get inspired by your video to dig in to the magical world of indie games. There are so may to discover. Thank you again for the video.

This is why I love Stardew. Concerned Ape keeps releasing incredible new content for the game, totally free of charge. And the game is less than half of the price of a AAA game.

Can we also gripe about the horrible horrible lack of couch co-op these days? My husband and I live in the same house but need to buy most games TWICE to play together and are expected to have TWO consoles with TWO yearly subscriptions!! It’s so stupid!!! So we just never get to play anything together anymore

Fun fact about Ubi. They shutdown The Crew and I bet many people here already heard about that but they also took all the assets away so you can’t even make a private server like the fans of Lego Universe did with LU Darkflame.

The PS2 was the golden era of gaming. They managed to stuff as much content as they could fit into a compact disc you owned, with a finished full offline game, additional game modes, online multiplayer and unlockables without installing anything. For less than $60. I had a 8mb memory card with more than 10 games saved on it.

Fun roller coaster tycoon fact: It was written in a language so basic that it could run on anything no matter what, ergo the strategy of putting it everywhere as a demo meant that people could see it ran on their system perfectly fine, even if their system was ancient. THAT is beyond what Triple A studios do now.

I have no shame in admitting that every Ubisoft game I've ever played was acquired sailing the seven seas

I think the fact that Helldivers 2, a game that got so popular there were server issues for the first month or so, was only forty dollars, and got released in a basically finished state, is one of the reasons I still play it today.

big companies do not care about us. and its such a weird thought of ''why would you sell this, yet nobody buys it, just so your stakeholders are happy and then complain when it does not sell''

I think you nailed it. We just need the gaming community to: 1) STOP PREORDERING! Don't pay money for the promise of a product. Wait for release and balanced reviews. 2) Stop equating open world with good game. Huge open spaces filled with nothing but scenery or irrelevant and tedious tasks is not actual gameplay. 3) Stop defending crappy practices. This is best done with your wallet but also going online to defend microtransactions or crappy dlc that should have been included in the original release, that needs to stop happening. We need to be willing to push back on crappy practices and say we don't give a damn about your shareholders (publicly traded companies suck) and refuse to fund companies that don't care. Over in Total War Warhammer, we pushed back on their new crappy dlc policy so successfully that we actually won. The next dlc is looking great and they added additional content to the previous shamefully overpriced dlc. It's possible to make things change, we just need to be willing to fight for it and maybe sacrifice not getting to play the latest call of assassin's mon hyper remake 3.

Stardew Valley (Concerned Ape) also just released a significant update to the game. For free. 8 years after launch. It is excellent. That’s why it’s made $300,000,000.

There's a quote from an excellent mini-documentary on the North American Video Game Crash of 1983 that I think fits here. "...Shelf space was stretched thin. and per-game revenue, raced to the bottom. Atari weren't concerned. They were in the lead. Millions of dollars spent on exclusive licences, tie-ins and massive marketing budgets. The more they spent, the more they earned. The games themselves, didn't matter." 40 years later, seems like we still suffer the same problem.