@CaesarIIII The market was the same before the crash in the 80s, flooded by companies that didn't understand what the people wanted, putting out bad/overpriced products hoping to sell on hype and licenses alone. Gaming was exploding then and they all wanted a piece of that pie but inevitably there isn't enough for everyone, I think many of them will be in big trouble in the end.
I agree the market is thriving but if you look at the way games are now being aggressively monetized and the crash of 1983 there are a lot of similarities. I think the rise of Indie developers and digital distribution can save the industry from the corporate monsters though.
F*ck the creditors, THQ are just protecting their company and employees in the long term, creditors don't care about the future of their company or the lives of the employees or the quality of their products, they just want their profit and they want it now. Is it any wonder that our economy is down the toilet when people get fired on a whim because the creditors must have their projected return on their investment at all costs.
What happens to THQ when they are picked apart and sold off seperately and left with a husk of a company with a few ip's nobody wanted, most employees are fired to maximise the creditors profits and any loans/mortgages debts that those employees owe then go unpaid and sets off a chain reaction ending with the tax payer bailing out the banks bad debts, because the creditors need their profit and they don't care what the consequences are for anybody else.
People defending creditors and their thirst for profit are idiots, it's their system of profit at any cost that allow big business to take over our economy. In our societies creditors can't lose, they are always protected and propped up by the tax payer. God forbid the creditors and banks make a bad decision and take a hit once in a while along with everyone else.
I deffinitely won't be subscribing to Xbox Live next time around. Having seen what I can get for free on my PS3 I feel foolish to have paid for the same service. I just hope the PC gaming industry can keep up with the next gen in that we aren't left out again like what happened to GTA, RDR and most sports games. The console manufacturers and publishers are sucking all the fun out of gaming and replacing it with cash shops, subscription services, DLC and worthless mulitplayer all designed to seperate us from our cash instead of offering us a better experience and value.
Remember a very large amount of time is spent optimizing games to run on consoles and cutting objects out of the world. A developer at Call of Duty said they build a level relatively quickly but it runs at 4 FPS on the console, they then need to spend hours taking out objects, optimizing code and effects to get the game to run at a playable framerate.
Optimizing takes a lot of time and resources but with proper hardware like 4-8GB of RAM instead of 256MB they won't have to spend so much time making their cutting edge software run on antiquated hardware.
Development Kits are getting more powerful as well, it's now easier to create detailed textures and 3D worlds and technologies such as Tesselation takes care of a lot of the detail without doing everything manually.
I don't care so much about improved graphics as I do about faster Processors and more complex AI and game systems. That is the next big leap in gaming we should expect like the online multiplayer revolution of this generation and the open ended 3D games of last gen.
Crysis 2 took everything awesome about Crysis and threw it out the window and just focused on the Call of Duty crowd. From the linear shallow single player to the embarrassing attempt at emulating CoD multiplayer.
Crysis 2 was an awkward mess and I was really disappointed at the direction they took. They have shamed themselves by selling out their brand of gameplay for a pathetic limp attempt at capturing the CoD mass market and now I don't consider Crytek as a top game developer anymore. Just another pretender willing to sell their soul to get a piece of the big pie.
I bought Assassin's Creed 2 and it never worked, their support was useless and I was refused a refund. Consequently I torrented Assassin's Creed 3, you know how much I have played it? Less than 2 hours and it has been uninstalled.
Not counting the hours I wasted trying to fix the game and talking to a brick wall known as support, did I get my money worth even with both games combined? No, what can I do about that? Nothing.
If I can't try a proper demo that I can test performance, try the game and decide for myself if it's worth my very hard earned money then I will find a torrented copy and try it that way.
What I won't do is pay attention to advertisements and bribed review scores, because if I did that then the only games on my shelf would be CoD and bad movie lisenced games.
There are plenty of big publishers and small developers alike that are happy to lie to us, charge us extra for stuff that we paid for on the disc, charge monthly subscription for no reason, release broken products and escape any form of retribution. Unlike many other industries we have something to protect us from that BS and it is called piracy.
Piracy does exist for a reason and it is to prevent that grip they have on our balls from becoming too tight.
If Bioware don't go back to the roots of Origins then they are finished to me, I'll chalk them up to another studio EA has ruined. Dragon Age 2 was so bad that for me if they have any hope of redeeming themselves, Dragon Age 3 better be fucking spectacular. They seem to be losing interest in making great RPG games now and are content just giving us loads of action and titties so that we don't realise how bad the games have become.
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