If this is indeed another industry crash-in-progress, and it could very well be, then it didn't come remotely soon enough for my tastes. I've been fed up with the video game industry for years now (obviously). Anything that will sweep away the current status quo and show whoever may come along afterward to pick up the pieces how utterly horseshit the way things have been done for the past decade or so by the current crop of big (and more than a few small) pubs/devs is okay in my book, shitty though it may be in the short term.
Protips for future video game devs in the aftermath of the inevitable crash (even if it isn't already happening right here and now): DRM sucks, and used games are not your fucking enemy (and piracy is going to happen no matter what you do, so get over it), chopping up of your game into DLC, especially day one bullshit that's already on the disc, sucks (expansion packs after the game has released are mostly okay, as long as you aren't pimping those out months before the main game itself is even out), not
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Protips for future video game devs in the aftermath of the inevitable crash (even if it isn't already happening right here and now): DRM sucks, and used games are not your fucking enemy (and piracy is going to happen no matter what you do, so get over it), chopping up of your game into DLC, especially day one bullshit that's already on the disc, sucks (expansion packs after the game has released are mostly okay, as long as you aren't pimping those out months before the main game itself is even out), not ( ... )
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