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Bo's avatar
Apr 18Edited

Devs need to ask themselves “is this cool? Is this fun?” Nothing else matters.

My two cents is that, once corporate America realized how profitable games were they immediately set about flipping studios into high achieving good girls and boys clubs with the “right” people in positions of power. There is so much unnecessary political bullshit at some game companies that dev’s hate but are afraid to speak up about.

It was the HR’ification of game studios overseen by MBA’s that went to school to learn how to do business good based on what good business was 10 to 20 years ago.

The talent is still out there, cool stuff is being made but it’s almost like it has to escape the corporate tractor beam like a fleeing millennium falcon without getting blown to shreds by lawyers and assholes in tie fighters.

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K.M. Carroll's avatar

It's weird to me that "make games that are fun to play" is so difficult for western developers. Pleasing the customer is the first job of any business, but these studios and the suits who run them hate their own customers. An upcoming swimsuit pack for Marvel Rivals was just leaked, and I can hear people throwing money at their screens right now. Meanwhile my husband has been watching every streamer with an opinion on the new version of Marathon, and it's a big fat "meh". Even my daughter said, "If I want to play a weird infested cyborg, I'll play Warframe, because at least they're cool to look at."

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