Quotes that prove game companies don't understand their customers.

[THE VERY REVEREND MISTER BONK]

My first vote is for the infamous - "Hey, do you guys not have phones?"

Any better than that please let me know.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Satoru Iwata on “what customers want”: “Customers do not want online games.”

Hiroshi Yamauchi on RPG gamers: “[People who play RPGs are] depressed gamers who like to sit alone in their dark rooms and play slow games,” This was said in a 1999 interview. Yamauchi, went on to say that RPGs are “silly and boring.”

Former Nintendo chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi on graphics: “I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the videogame business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.”

[Grimmz]

YoU tHiNk YoU dO, bUt YoU dOn'T.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by MISTER BONK:

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Any better than that please let me know.

This just happened:

https://www.gamesradar.com/cyberpunk-2077-studio-congratulates-no-mans-sky-dev-on-new-game-light-no-fire-and-jokes-you-can-always-fix-it-later/

"you can always fix it later" - CD Projekt Red


So, here's a quote likely heard in the offices of many off the AAA publisher failure-releases in the past two years:

"Go full speed ahead for release, since we've already paid for all that marketing. Those suckers won't know the game isn't finished yet, isn't fun to play, and doesn't really have much content. We'll all be rich before they know how bad the product is!" - AAADEVPUB.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

This one for Diablo in a room full of PC gamers:

https://youtu.be/VGByCvWDINA?si=zjE5U1t_v3OqE5pZ

dO yOu GuYs NoT hAvE pHoNeS?

[Electric Cupcake]

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loot-boxes-are-surprise-mechanics

[THE VERY REVEREND MISTER BONK]

Originally posted by Morkonan:

Originally posted by MISTER BONK:

....
Any better than that please let me know.

This just happened:

https://www.gamesradar.com/cyberpunk-2077-studio-congratulates-no-mans-sky-dev-on-new-game-light-no-fire-and-jokes-you-can-always-fix-it-later/

"you can always fix it later" - CD Projekt Red


So, here's a quote likely heard in the offices of many off the AAA publisher failure-releases in the past two years:

"Go full speed ahead for release, since we've already paid for all that marketing. Those suckers won't know the game isn't finished yet, isn't fun to play, and doesn't really have much content. We'll all be rich before they know how bad the product is!" - AAADEVPUB.

NO! Fix it later hu? Well, in that case I'll buy it later...when it's been fixed

[CircuitGhost]

"Why don't you play something else?" - Mathieu cote, dead by daylight dev

[THE VERY REVEREND MISTER BONK]

Originally posted by cheecho:

"Why don't you play something else?" - Mathieu cote, dead by daylight dev

LOL - and they did.