[–] Clinton-Warren_2020 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
It's funny, I just got a switch and was over on the nintendo forum. They have a huge thread about how they don't need EA games for the switch to survive. There are a few faggy fanboys, but a lot of them hate EA and don't want their games on the switch.
http://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch/we_dont_need_ea_on_switch
[–] Fukensmoken 1 point 15 points 16 points (+16|-1) ago
You forgot to mention that the £99 option was the “best value”.
[–] Hall_of_Cost 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
What is a season pass? I never played a game with that because it turns me off from the game. Sounds like I have to pay each season to play, like a ski pass.
[–] ixaxxar 1 point 16 points 17 points (+17|-1) ago
I hate each and every gamer of this generation, you stupid fucks have ruined video games.
If you stupid fucking asshole niggers didnt pay for micro transactions, dlc, season passes, paying alpha test games that after years dont even go into beta, ect ect and all the cancer that is gaming now, THESE COMPANIES WOULD NOT DO THIS SHIT.
Its you fucks that keep paying for this trash that enable it. So fuck you, every single one of you. You used to be able to go to a store and buy a finished game. That game came in a nice box with a booklet and maybe a poster or some other gay shit, and you owned it, could play it all you wanted. Now you get your digital copy! After you install it in a few weeks months they want you to pay more for what should have been in th release, ontop of paying for stupid shit like bonus skins or weapons and other crap that should have already been there.
So thanks you retarded millennial trash faggots! Thanks for being so retarded with money. Thanks for perpetuating the current generation of gaming into micro tansaction cash crab pump and dump disposible games that are shit and have you pay extra money to play less.
You stupid fucks.
[–] NeaKillerMain 3 points -2 points 1 point (+1|-3) ago
My friend I think your anger is misplaced.
This nonsense going on in videogames is just the way markets age. At first the barriers to entry for making games were high, so there were few game companies. There were also few players, so the market was barely able to function. It was super risky and just wasn't really profitable. People who made games were really passionate about it, since doing it for the money alone would have been silly.
Then as games became popular, game companies started raking in decent cash, but barriers to entry were still high. There was no Unity and no Unreal, so each company had to write their engine themselves or pay another company to use theirs. This was the sweet spot in the market where there were enough gamers to make decent cash but the barriers to entry were still so high that you needed to be already well-established to profit. This is when all of your big companies became big, like Epic, Valve, etc., as did the big publishers. A lot of companies separated out into the 'production' and 'distribution' categories. You either became a publisher or a developer, depending on where your interests lied. That's how you got all of your EAs and Activisions.
Once people started making affordable game engines, selling art assets online, and teaching videogame design classes in college, it became a whole lot easier to make games. You didn't need that one brilliant developer who could code an entire game engine themselves... you just needed to pay a bit of money for Unity and 3D modeling tools. Currently Unity is free and you can get Maya for like $30 a month. A 12 year old who is fed at home and pays no rent is now in a position to make a shitty game and publish on Steam.
But now the market has shifted and you have the reverse problem: too many games (mostly shitty games), not enough players. The AAA game companies still make money, but they're only making money because they're doing this microtransaction and gambling shit. Just look at the evolution of the cost of making videogames. One way to read this is that games are making more money, so the companies can afford to spend more money on financing a game. But the other way to read this is that to stay on top, AAA game companies have to spend more. The amount of gamers available has reached a ceiling, whereas the number of games out there keeps growing exponentially. The market is collapsing under the weight of shitty games, and big game companies need to release cash grabs that they spend millions marketing just to stay big.
The big publishers have been around long enough that they've established an oligopoly. They suck all of the money out of the game sales to the point that the studios they publish for starve and collapse. So on the one hand you have to produce an epic, awesome-looking game to entice gamers away from stupid shit like Minecraft or Goat Simulator. On the other your publisher is taking you to the cleaners. You do the stupid microtransaction bullshit to beef up sales to keep your studio afloat, but then the gamers hate you. It's lose-lose. If you don't believe me go look at the studios that swore not to do microtransactions... they just ran themselves into the ground. They made great games that people loved, but their publishers just took all the money and they collapsed.
This is the same awful shit we're seeing with the internet. All market cycles have a beginning, middle, and an end. It's always great in the beginning and decent in the middle. We're just seeing the end of the videogame market cycle. It's just going to get worse until it collapses so hard that it can restart some different way. But it's going to get worse before it gets better.
TL, DR: We're just at the end of the economic cycle for videogames. It's nobody's fault. Or everybody's fault, whichever way you want to look at it.
[–] ErnieTheEarner ago
Any thoughtful post gets downvoted on VOAT. Yes, this is the end of video games on consoles (Xbox and Sony) anyway. I think Candy Crush put an end to that. Why build a game for a few when you have the masses playing a game so simple with micro transactions. Yea, people who want to play serious FPS games are feeling the hurt. Got a feeling it will go back to PC gaming like the late 90's where their are dedicated servers owned by other players and the code is open enough where you can design maps. I did like 15 maps...all pretty bad, but others did a great job and were used on public servers. Quake Rocket Area 2!
[–] Hektik 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I would say its not a free market when Publishers have to be held legally to increased demand for profit for shareholders. A private company doesnt have that overhead expectation and can run circles around those companies that are expected to generate more via shareholder demand.
Fanboyism and useful idiots shell out the money and AAA developers get increased funds for projects but the capital is split by overhead which screws the developers and gamers. It is built like a ponzi scheme.
[–] ixaxxar 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
that was one nice wall of text trying to convince me that some how I should support these kikes and their cash grabs instead of laughing as they go bankrupt as more and more people like me don't buy their shit ever under any circumstance.
At some point a company will do things they way they are supposed to be done, and the cycle can repeat.
[–] GoBack2AfricaNiggers 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago (edited ago)
If you stupid fucking asshole niggers didnt pay for micro transactions, dlc, season passes, paying alpha test games that after years dont even go into beta, ect ect and all the cancer that is gaming now, THESE COMPANIES WOULD NOT DO THIS SHIT.
This is why the free market is a stupid idea as long as there are jews trying to scam money from you left and right. What was once an esoteric hobby for men has become a bastardized parody of itself. At this point the best you can do is ignore triple A developers and their jewish micro-transaction schemes in favor of smaller gaming companies, atleast until they COD out and start releasing the same skinned over games once a year like dark souls has devolved into
[–] NeaKillerMain 4 points -1 points 3 points (+3|-4) ago
What's with Voat's obsession with Jews? With the way everyone here talks about them secretly running the world, it's like you think they're superior human beings or something. Markets are bigger than people, even very rich people. A group of Jews with infinity dollars could mess with a large market, but even they couldn't "control" it. The current videogame market isn't the result of Jews. It's the result of a long-running series of transactions between game developers, publishers, investors, and gamers. It's the collective result of everybody participating. You'd have to put a Jew on the same level as God to say that he 'controlled' all of that. And besides that, it's easy to blame a Jew for what essentially was everybody's collective fault, but it doesn't solve any real problems with the state of videogames.
[–] numberonewebhandle 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
People's tits would be rustled for shur