books,

Because lethal company is a much more fun game than anything the big guys are putting out and it only costs 10 bucks

Secret300,

Same with Battlebit, that’s $15.

It’s annoying seeing people buy the same copy paste games from AAA companies then complain that games aren’t good anymore. Like no shit, you just preordered it without even looking at a review

dylanTheDeveloper,
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

Top heavy teams suffer the problem of play it safe don’t innovate mentality. Especially if a publisher is pulling the strings.

Evotech,

Same reason as every other tech company

KuroeNekoDemon,

Why is it that in my own experience Atlus and Nintendo are the only two companies that provide fun games that run with little to no issues and meanwhile every single other triple A company doesn’t anymore? Look at both of them, Persona 3 Reload, Mario Wonder hell even indie games like Palworld are more fun to play. Wtf is wrong with the gaming industry nowadays?

Maalus,

Why spend millions on QA, delaying games, etc when people buy millions of copies regardless? You get an influx of cash that can sustain further development. If the game sells badly, you saved millions when you sunset the game without fixes. If not, you fix stuff, add content that was meant to be in the game and diehards love it.

People aren’t patient and they buy the next big thing. They don’t want to play a game half a year after release, they want it now. They want fifa 24 or whatever it is, not 22. You wait on Baldur’s Gate 3 - you got to play an excellent game way after everyone. What if the next Call of Duty is as good as BG3 was?

Obviously we all know that won’t be the case, but if gaming is what you do for an hour every week, you probably won’t do a lot of research.

KuroeNekoDemon,

Exactly I waited 6 months for Persona 3 Reload and I am very happy with my purchase just like I was with FES/Portable. These companies need to do better

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Atlus is Sega, though

Renacles,

Pokemon…

Both those companies have the advantage of owning a ton of beloved IPs and Nintendo releases a lot of stinkers as well.

rustyfish,
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

Nintendo is not exempt from this.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Nintendo isn’t really pushing the envelope on, well, anything and they are basically the Disney or Apple of video games with hordes fans who can see them doing no wrong.

Alexstarfire,

Pursuit of bigger numbers.

AMillionNames,

Because it’s about greed, not culture. And anything having to do with culture has itself been traditionally appropriated by greed anyway.

kaffiene,

Greed

TypicalHog,

Maybe they overhired when we had “cheap” money in 2021.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Mergers.

JohnnyCanuck,
@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca avatar

They do this every year and nobody cares.

BolexForSoup,
@BolexForSoup@kbin.social avatar

Not at this rate and not nearly as many studios close per year.

Mango,

Hey don’t call me nobody! I have a whole body.

PrincessEli,

Funny how all the retarded NPCs cry about greed, over the fact that they think every random idiot is entitled to a paycheck for all of eternity regardless of whether or not anyone actually wants to employ them.

BolexForSoup,
@BolexForSoup@kbin.social avatar

all the r—- NPC’s

  1. Who straight faced says NPC’s?
  2. It isn’t 1999 don’t use that word.
BeigeAgenda,
@BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca avatar

Some people love universal basic income, other people love to see people starve.

KyuubiNoKitsune,

I’d recommend watching this

youtu.be/-653Z1val8s

thorbot,

Got a TL;DW? Shits over an hour long fam

KyuubiNoKitsune,

There’s a hype cycle that companies like MS ride to bolster stocks, during the hype they over hire to give investors the impression that they are doing really well, when the hype starts to fall, they use layoffs to inch out a bit more, because it shows investors that they’re slimming down now that the hype is falling off. One of the interesting things he mentioned is that the hype is more important than the product, the product is just there to increase the hype and justify the hiring, showing investors that something great is on the way.

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