▲ 122 ▼ What's something you once had a lot of respect for but now have no respect for? (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 135 comments fedilink hide all child comments Original question by @zachimusprime44@lemmy.world
[–] TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (2 children) The video game industry. (Indie games are on fire lately, though.) permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tehmics@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (1 child) AA is where it's at now. There's still insanely good games coming out, there just not by companies like EA and Activision anymore. In some ways I think the good development studios are the same size they've always been, it's just that a new class of mainstream games has risen to profit on the masses. If you ignore those, it's not so bad. At least not until one of the AAA publishers gets their hands on them to ruin the IP and layoff the original devs permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago A lot of AA studios have been cramming in a ton of microtransactions still, whereas indie is mostly devoid of it, but it definitely gets a lot better the more A's you remove. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MudMan@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago I am screaming at this sentence both internally and externally. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (1 child) AA is where it's at now. There's still insanely good games coming out, there just not by companies like EA and Activision anymore. In some ways I think the good development studios are the same size they've always been, it's just that a new class of mainstream games has risen to profit on the masses. If you ignore those, it's not so bad. At least not until one of the AAA publishers gets their hands on them to ruin the IP and layoff the original devs permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago A lot of AA studios have been cramming in a ton of microtransactions still, whereas indie is mostly devoid of it, but it definitely gets a lot better the more A's you remove. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TrippyHippyDan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago A lot of AA studios have been cramming in a ton of microtransactions still, whereas indie is mostly devoid of it, but it definitely gets a lot better the more A's you remove. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MudMan@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago I am screaming at this sentence both internally and externally. permalink fedilink source parent