Why are most games crap?

[Tiberius]

The market on steam is flooded with old games that are not compatible with new systems and games that are simply an unfinished mess.
You cant tell me this is just in my head, this seems common practice now, let alone the fact of all the micro transactions some devs add at a later stage, almost feeling like a scam after you paid the full price for a game.

Change my mind

[EASY PETE]

Pretty much

[Tiberius]

Oprindeligt skrevet af EASY PETE:

Pretty much

By the way, I noticed this especially with mp games.
Games like God of War or Assassin's Creed, usually feel worthy the price for me and give me many hours of stressless fun.

[F]

dont forget the large amount of DCLs

[Tiberius]

Oprindeligt skrevet af F:

dont forget the large amount of DCLs

DLCs are alright, but not for the prices they expect you to pay nowadays

[Lime]

narrow scope

[Mega Ultra Chicken]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNPk_arv_Ko&t=54s

[Coinkydink]

It has always been this way. Video games are mostly junk because coding sucks and designing good games of any kind takes special talent.

[Xero_Daxter]

Unpopular opinion but GTA 5 (single player) is a masterpiece.

[Hexi]

Usually you can get older games to work on modern systems. Check the pcgaming wiki for the game or there is usually a steam guide to get the game running. Although there have been games I haven't been able to get to work. And I don't mind dlc if they are adding new content to the game and giving people the option to pay for more. It's scummy when they sell parts of the original game as dlc though.

[Tiberius]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Hexi:

Usually you can get older games to work on modern systems. Check the pcgaming wiki for the game or there is usually a steam guide to get the game running. Although there have been games I haven't been able to get to work. And I don't mind dlc if they are adding new content to the game and giving people the option to pay for more. It's scummy when they sell parts of the original game as dlc though.

I don’t want to be forced to out time into getting the game running. They have to optimise it to a useful extent

[abcd]

The market is built out of companies taking seed money (usually from investors) and playing it on the stock market, crapping out a byproduct in the form of a game, and then handing the stock money back as profit.

If people actually like the games enough to buy them the stock push gets disrupted.

As such, there's a market incentive for no games to be good, in order to maintain the stock market. Instead they are a spectrum of low and high-production crap, and any successful dev is buried under money then bought out and relegated to publishing. So that their market interests begin to mirror what the wider market wants them to want: money. Stocks. Bad games.

[someone]

you should give this game a try

https://store.steampowered.com/app/223470/POSTAL_2/

[Vince ✟]

Look at who makes them. Ie the ferret guy pirate software. Have you ever seen anyone so pretentious? Game dev royalty and hacker idol, its laughable and easy to see how its more about being the dev than it is making good games.

[abcd]

Oprindeligt skrevet af MD:

Look at who makes them. Ie the ferret guy pirate software. Have you ever seen anyone so pretentious? Game dev royalty and hacker idol, its laughable and easy to see how its more about being the dev than it is making good games.

I'm immediately inclined to believe that's another segment of the market making a parody dev to undermine people who are tired of all the bad games. But I have no idea who you're talking about.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Yeah, it's kind of odd GoG seems to have more success with keeping old games running on newer systems. Especially when it's exactly the same title from the same publisher.