It’s more likely that the devs are not being given the time or resources to do this kind of thing properly. Their bosses are too concerned with what will save money and generate shareholder value.

Arc Raiders launched as a feature complete game, mostly bug free, well optimized, with a sufficient amount of functioning servers, and with genuinely innovative game design.

It sold incredibly well at 40 dollars. I’ve bought it 4 times myself.

Expecting every game to meet those criteria is not “absurd”. It used to be par for the industry and it still should be.

AAA games from publicly traded corporations are just absurdly underwhelming. They want us to think these standards are absurd so they can keep their minimal effort bullshit gravy train running. It’s not going to work anymore. That’s the free market. Adapt or die.

Aka the market has rejected your overpriced bullshit. Adapt or die. Welcome to the free market.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a mega corporation and previously had the winning formula. You adapt to meet evolving market demand or you die.

These c suites got too comfy doing everything to only please their shareholders. They forgot that pleasing their consumers wasn’t optional. We are your money supply. If you lose us, it all comes crashing down.

Not only that but E33 showed people what ex-ubisoft devs could do when you actually let them be creative.

Let’s give Ubisoft to North Korea then

No. We all poor now.

That’s essentially what I’m saying. It will always end up this way. Whether we call it late stage or post capitalism or just capitalism is irrelevant. It’s a system that empowers sociopathy and sociopaths will always choose to enrich themselves at the expense of the country and it’s citizens.

AI has not been invented yet. LLMs are not intelligent.

It’s post-capitalism. Capitalism was only ever capable of bringing about merit based class mobility and prosperity temporarily before the sociopaths all trickled to the top over the decades and then shut that shit down. Neo-feudalism is the inevitable result, and that will eventually be dismantled by another working class revolution.

All economies have lifespans.

I can’t even wrap my head around it, let alone understand why technology with this inherent fallacy built in is being pushed as the pinnacle of all programming, a field who’s basis lays in logic.

Because line must go up no matter what.

Candy crush is just another reskin of bejeweled; a game made by an indie developer in the year 2000.

Corpos can’t make good games because they’re sociopaths who don’t understand art, only products. Understanding art requires a functioning connection to humanity and emotions, which they lack.

Games aren’t only products; they’re art. Good art is not capable of universal appeal. The more demographics you try to appeal to for the sake of appeasing your shareholder overlords, the more dogshit your game will be.

Games made to support the interests of mentally ill rich people cannot be well made categorically. This is why AAA has sucked ever since wall street took over every studio.

It is. So many people who work directly for these people have testified that they obsess over their position on the Forbes richest people lists.

They are mentally ill and have what can only be described as the financial equivalent of body dysmorphia. They are the last people who should be in power right now. They must be removed from their positions by any means necessary if we want our species to survive. Inevitably they will be by necessity; either by us or by a future generation.

I go one step further. Ideology is the enemy of progress. It all eventually corrodes and corrupts into anti-humanitarian bullshit, even if a particular ideology starts out good.