Re: "They Just Have To Be Good"

JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote at 08:42 this Saturday (GMT):

On 21/03/2025 22:09, Zaghadka wrote:

On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:03:56 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
 

The big-name publishers looked at this calculation and decided the
best way to do things, then, is to go all-in on live-service,
MTX-riddled, advert- and sponsorship-heavy games in a hope that they
can recoup some of the expenses. And --for the time being-- that
strategy is working, but it comes at a cost.

 
Yeah. The indies and smaller shops will step in. We're not back to games
in ziplock baggies, but AAA games are not where it's at for me.
 
I prefer small dev-team options and will pay them handsomely. So long as
Unity doesn't shit the bed, this will continue to be available.
 

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My money and time also now goes to the smaller studios as I just find
the games more interesting and I don't feel and they are trying to
squeeze every last penny out of me.

Agreed, I'm planning to donate Patreon money to Tendershoot because I
love HSOL (and also it would be funny to be in the credits twice)

And then there's Larian. There's CDPR. There are single-A companies that
try. We need to be forgiving of them and support them. I bought Cyberpunk
2077 at a discount to keep them honest.
 
It's not dead yet. It's just very badly burned.
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Hopefully. At least Nintendo makes some decent single player stuff.

I agree although even those games you mentioned aren't really doing
anything that different but instead doing a type of formula know to work
very well, although in Cyberpunk's case that took a couple of years
until after it had been released.
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I don't care if the textures aren't 4k. I just have to buy a much more
expensive graphics card and monitor then.

I agree, my computer sucks and I do NOT care about graphics. Basically
every game I play I do so with the minimum settings possible.

I got off the graphics bandwagon many years ago as I realised that
graphics were no longer that important to me and the type of games I was
played didn't really rely on them. I can appreciate really high fidelity
graphics but that quickly wears off.
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I look at the price of higher performance GPU's now and just think, you
have got to be kidding me.

I think the GPU price is more because of the AI bubble rn..
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