This might be against the grain but as an avid overwatch player I don't think overwatch needs to be inundated with content to stay alive, I think it'd be far healthier for them to make the existing content enjoyable. They have enough heroes, they have enough maps. They should be polishing those heroes and maps (which they did do this season, the changes to watchpoint are really good but the map was already really good, they need to focus on fixing things that are terrible lol).
It isn't about keeping it alive or improving the game, it's about milking the idiots who keep shelling out money and defending battlepasses + mtx, once the money runs out they'll just kill it and move on.
From what I read it isn't on PC for some reason. Also they moved a bunch of vehicles behind a real money paywall? You can keep them if you already own them but if not gotta pay real money.
I don’t mean to dismiss you but I think a more relevant statistic would be for people in game development since it’s mostly creators, not consumers on scene.
With that said, I don’t think the ratio will be that different for developers and gamers, so maybe this was a pointless comment :D
Mm.. it's a bit different. I'm a female game dev working in one of my country's bigger studios, and I'm one of two women who touches code (aka, software engineer/developer). Out of the whole company of ~300 people, there are only ~50 women. Most of those are artists, designers, QA, production, audio, HR , or other higher ups in the company.
It's no secret that they're desperately trying to get more female engineers on board, but there's just a huge shortage of tech talent where I live, and a lot of women are driven off from game dev because of the reactions and treatment that are so typical of the environment. Even getting here, everything has been very male-dominated through my entire career; women in tech just aren't as common for countless reasons.
I'd love to see statistics for some of the really big companies, actually.
My personal experience going to a school in that field (now 20 years ago), back then, there were practically no girls there. Our school had 5 years, and in the first year, of 5 classes, only 2 had any girls at all. By the end, I think of the 2 classes finishing, there were only a handful girls in about 50-60 people. So I think it is still no wonder there are so few female engineers around.
I honestly don't know why so few girls choose a tech career. At least where I live, there is nothing preventing them from doing it. The only thing I could imagine is the "social norm" or peer pressure from their friends in middle school, to just choose a more social or non-tech school later on.
It's the sexism, honestly. I cannot tell you how many times I've been passed over, talked over, belittled, and mocked for being a woman in tech. I have a lot of support from half of the industry, but from the other... well. I've been told to make sure I stay behind the man because he should always be walking into a room first. I've been ignored by coworkers. I've been screamed at by my boss in a way he only ever did to women. I've been seated in a boss's office for him to leer at me whilst lecturing me over nothing because he wanted to stare.
That, and then the pay gap... It's unsurprising. There's so much sexism in the industry and there's even more for someone young trying to get into it - both with the social pressure, as you mentioned, to do something else, and the general rude bollocks of 'girls can't code'. I'm so proud of all the young female devs I see starting to get into tech.
It looked in what they showed F2P. Super sad, just another way of killing off the Maxis games. Hopefully Paralives will be coming out soon to save the genre
Suffering from the Telltale disease. Pumping out more and more licensed games that are just a different coat of paint on the same game is going to lead to diminishing returns, I expect. Especially with a live service game, I have to imagine that at a certain point you’re just fracturing your userbase.
Niantic seems to have trouble telling if a franchise is a good fit for the tech they have and the gameplay it enables. Marvel, Transformers, HP, and Basketball don't lend themselves well to the grindy collection and exploration mechanics.
We'll see how well Monster Hunter holds up, gameplay wise. It at least has a repeatable thing that sorta makes sense thematically (like fighting several Rathalos to gather parts) as opposed to having 5 clones of LeBron James or getting... stickers of stuff that you might recognize.
I think a lot of stuff could fit their tech, if they were willing to go the extra mile and develop standard game features as well. Pokemon Go could be so much more if they implemented more RPG stuff. Ingress might have reached its limit, I dunno… But everything they’ve produced since those has been incredibly bare-bones and boring. And they all sounded like they had potential.
They want to do the absolute minimum amount of work to support their main mechanic, and nothing else… And it’s killing them.
Pikmin was a pretty decent fit, but they dropped the seemingly easiest ball on gameplay! Niantic already have a flinging-objects mechanic, and Pikmin has a central "throwing Pikmin on the enemy" mechanic. They should've had some kinda action mechanic where you chuck your pikmin at the target!
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