Gaming Indusry Giants Need To GO

[Terente22CmRecords]

I am looking at the giants today, ea, blizard, ubisoft, microsoft, the quality in those studios go down, all they are doing now is basicaly try to rush every single game, puting tags like 70$ on them, and than polute them with hundreds of dlcs. And heres come one of my delemas, people still buyng crap for them, wich means they are happy with low quality products and anti consumer policies. In that case i hope those people will get that kind of quality in continuity for the rest of theyre gaming time. But, to be honest, i am looking to get some quality for my money. Some stuff and companies that bother me in the current giants:
1. Riot Games: from a giant in moba name, with a decent comunity and brialiant game back in the day, now is one of the most toxic game on the planet, they removed the tribunal, they made the game newb firendly just to find new people to spend those money on the skins, they realease 500$ skins, but wont fix the troll problem, any fixes to the infinity of client bugs, looks at tft, mordog and his team are more focusing on streams and his new cosmetics promoting when the tft balance was a bad dream all this set!
2.Ubisoft: ceo and staff from ubisoft with all those comments on social media, even insulting players at some time, removing games from people acounts (the crew situation), all the bugs in old games who are never fixed but they still want to be bought, also uisoft is stil selling dlcs on theyre games you cannot use, on the steam version of assasin creed revelations, they let you buy dlcs you cant activate or use anymore (strange how valve alow that kind of stuff). Later realeases were nothing but craps, with low quality and content. They even masacrated my favorite game series, heroes of might and magic, after they bought the rights after the hit of the 3rd game, 4 was a terible disaster, 5 is the decent one, the rest nothing but trashes, for the fans in here, dont have hopes for 8, look at what ubisoft realeased nowadays.
3.EA the greedy dudes, or they were til blizzard sayd hold my beer, they are realeasing same games each year, and honestly they dont add anything good in them, fifa career got negelcted for years, now the fifa works with 2k to make a game, and if 2k does something good is the campain, bf4 wich is till being playd had the texture distant glitch for years and never was fixed, look at the new steam family sharing groups, notice what games from what companies arent shared?
4.Blizzard, from a giant to some small indie company when it comes to quality and content. If you think ea was greedy, look at diablo immortal, they removed overwatch 1, a game people loved, and payd for, and replace it with this garbage we have now, and didnt deliver anything from what they promised, warcraft 3 reforged, they dont alow you to download the old 2gb client, you need to waste 20gb for a crap who again comed with nothing they promised for, in the activision side, cod aint cod anymore, in a fps where having skill at shototing aint enouph, you need to move and spin to win, also speaking of cod, i belive this post will be longer than some of its campains. Another thing, most of the old cods on steam, are a security risc if you play them!
5. Valve: they removed cs go, the game was originaly buy to play, had it for a while, around 3k hours in it, they didnt evem had the guts top make a separate game, they knew it will be bomed and nobody will play cause its justy bad, the proof? they lose around 200k avg players. Another thing with valve, is what i mentioned above, they alow some sketchy stuf on it like those dlcs.
6. Microsoft: unlike the rest, at least microsoft dont take youre game away, forza 4 will be delisted, but servers will remain on (microsoft doin something good is strange, even forza 3 servers are still up). But same thing, new realeases are just bad, also we had hopes with the blizzard deal, that the ruling of bad games and decisions will go, nothing changed....
I can continue this for hours, like euro truck simulator 2 and american truck simulator, base game (or the first piece of the puzzle) is like what 4 euros? But if you want the full puzzle spend 300+ euros. Battlepasses and skin packs on 60-70 dolar games, dlcs who cut the content of the game in 35-40% at realease and than spend again 20$ a dlcs for the rest 60% of the game. And yet, people still suport this kind of behavior, wich after my not so smart brain, means they are happy in the way those companies treat them. And for those people i wish the situation will go worse than its now just to see how much of that stuff can they suport from those companies,
There are also good games out there, bg3, wukong, palworld, helldivers (even tho sony tried some nasty stuff there). But the gems and quality, are in the old games. Some of them yes, are not so flashy and good looking for the new fortnite kids who grew with a ps4 4k as first gaming platorm, But the quality of gameplay, and the amnount of content and the replay options are net superior to anything this giants does now, I told you earlier about heroes 3, a game made in 99, Only the story is 55+h, random maps generators, so new map every time you want, and the gem, the comunity, mods, tons of fan made mods and expansions with new facions, even new campains, after all this years, they even mentain (the fans) the online part up, recently there was a tournament sponsored by the guys from lenovo legion, on a game from 1999! And the list of gods who are still geting new content cause of the love from the comunity of moders can continue, old games with tons of content, quality content, I realy wish to live the day when the above companies close the door (ubi might be the first one), they were big once, but they forgot who maked them big, and now are just desacrating those names. I wish more companies will be like the dudes from bg3, and helldivers, in terms of respect towards those who buy those games. But sincer every kid spends hundreds on same fifa packs every year cause it want it, doubt we will see to many actualy decent and well made games in the near future!

[someone]

Rockstar games gud.

(I dont use chatGPT for posting, so that’s all i can type 👌)

[Terente22CmRecords]

Originally posted by ~~~~:

Rockstar games gud.

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rockstar has gta and rdr, im not familiar with other games from em, cause im not realy into those games genre, i dont think those games were bad, not in the bad ubisoft - blizzard quality range

[Tazor]

Originally posted by ~~~~:

Rockstar games gud.

(I dont use chatGPT for posting, so that’s all i can type 👌)

Nah bro. They do everything in their power to ♥♥♥♥ the GTA modding scene. I'm talking even fixes that make GTA 3 run on Windows 10. They pulled down the superior OG GTA games (3, Vice City, San Andreas and IV) from every platform. We are left with the downgraded remasters.

Rockstar games are only good for a time. They have a built in expiration date until Rockstar swings their corporate member around ruining everyone's fun.

[Nuheni]

Originally posted by ~~~~:

Rockstar games gud.

(I dont use chatGPT for posting, so that’s all i can type 👌)

There are too many typo`s for it to be AI, not that i care, js

[ℭycaleo]

tl;dr Split the big

[Coinkydink]

I almost exclusively play 2D games and skip cutscenes by default in all translated games and most others.
The gaming industry is pure exploitation of minors and rabidly anti-consumer and needs regulation yesterday. Gaming industry is dominated by man-children, and, now, man-haters. About 90% of all games is garbage both in gameplay and in thematic content (video game stories, LOL) that I do not want myself or my kids to waste any time and energy on.

[oldirty`]

90% of gamers are casuals. They dont care. The average ubisoft / EA triple A title is enough for them.

I dont think they need to go. I think we gamers need to acknowledge that the times these companies provided good, fun and innovative games is over.
Leave them to the people that play video games 50h per year.
There are plenty of non triple A but high quality fun and good games. Probably more than there have ever been.

Leave them at thhe kiddy table and come to the adult table were real games are played.

[Tazor]

Originally posted by oldirty`:

90% of gamers are casuals. They dont care. The average ubisoft / EA triple A title is enough for them.

I dont think they need to go. I think we gamers need to acknowledge that the times these companies provided good, fun and innovative games is over.
Leave them to the people that play video games 50h per year.
There are plenty of non triple A but high quality fun and good games. Probably more than there have ever been.

Leave them at thhe kiddy table and come to the adult table were real games are played.

You see, this is the paradox I don't understand. Modern AAA titles are designed for casuals. No longer for niche hobbyists. These casuals don't play much as you just said. But games are somehow becoming longer and longer. While the quality is decreasing.

Look how long it takes to beat Assassin's Creed Valhalla. And compare it to AC 2.

The argument could be made for microtransactions. Tricking those normies into spending more as they get bored. But you see plenty of whales who spend a ridiculous amount of time and money on bland shallow games.

Nothing makes sense and yet the numbers go up.

[Ulfrinn]

Time to pave the way for fresh talent.

[Incarnate]

As stated above by other users, these companies make money by appealing to the least educated, least discerning player. Consumers get the industry they deserve.

I'm not saying anyone who likes CoD, Ubisoft, Sony, or FIFA games are stupid, but "casuals" view games as a disposable thing, and quickly move on. When a game is pay-to-win, full of sleazy gambling mechanics, or a soulless copy-paste of the last year's installment, these people won't abandon a franchise, let alone boycott. Ubisoft knew exactly what they were doing when they killed The Crew. Sony and Nintendo can screw over paying customers, and still will have fierce defenders buying every new product.

[vkobe]

Originally posted by oldirty`:

90% of gamers are casuals. They dont care. The average ubisoft / EA triple A title is enough for them.

I dont think they need to go. I think we gamers need to acknowledge that the times these companies provided good, fun and innovative games is over.
Leave them to the people that play video games 50h per year.
There are plenty of non triple A but high quality fun and good games. Probably more than there have ever been.

Leave them at thhe kiddy table and come to the adult table were real games are played.

nope ubisoft and electronic art begin to flop

only fifa and apex legend still selling, other just crashing

[vkobe]

Originally posted by Incarnate:

As stated above by other users, these companies make money by appealing to the least educated, least discerning player. Consumers get the industry they deserve.

I'm not saying anyone who likes CoD, Ubisoft, Sony, or FIFA games are stupid, but "casuals" view games as a disposable thing, and quickly move on. When a game is pay-to-win, full of sleazy gambling mechanics, or a soulless copy-paste of the last year's installment, these people won't abandon a franchise, let alone boycott. Ubisoft knew exactly what they were doing when they killed The Crew. Sony and Nintendo can screw over paying customers, and still will have fierce defenders buying every new product.

nintendo yes

sony i am not sure anymore, concord flop badly

[wesnef]

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Not going to read that whole thing, so I'll just toss in that I disagree with the general "Game Devs Bad! Industry must burn!" thing that comes around on these forums every so often.

[☎need4naiim☎]

SCS is one of the most consumer friendly game companies you can ever stumble upon. Their American Truck Simulator and ETS2 have been HUGE success and they release new contents fairly cheap and upgrade their aging games pretty well with new features every year. And ALL OF THE TRUCKS are given away free of charge. Aside from extremely detailed interiors and exteriors of several truck models, all of the existing trucks are LICENSED. Believe me, licensing costs aren't cheap, especially for American Truck Industry.

[Terente22CmRecords]

Originally posted by ☎need4naiim☎:

SCS is one of the most consumer friendly game companies you can ever stumble upon. Their American Truck Simulator and ETS2 have been HUGE success and they release new contents fairly cheap and upgrade their aging games pretty well with new features every year. And ALL OF THE TRUCKS are given away free of charge. Aside from extremely detailed interiors and exteriors of several truck models, all of the existing trucks are LICENSED. Believe me, licensing costs aren't cheap, especially for American Truck Industry.

to bad more than half of the map is locked behing dlcs, prety expensive ones, and some nice jobs also hidden beneath paywalls, lets see you get the base game cheap right>?? but that is the first piece of the puzzle, lets say you dont want the cosmetics, lets say you want the game and the game content cause more than half the game is under dlcs (to much), lets see game plus all the content related dlc like map pieces and jobs are a total of 175,88 euros, yea cheap price to have all the game content, and i just saw another expansions on the way, another 17,99 things, wich will give over 200 euros just for the content of the game with no cosmetics, lets say around 220 euro with all thats coming, cheap right? lets say you can buy em all with 75% discount, that will still be 55 euros, the price of a brand new triple a game