Here is an article, written back in August of 2015, that I found while doing searches for "video game industry crash," after writing a comment in response to owsf2000's newest post about the state of the video game industry. I think it's a pretty good article, and one that I could have ( and indeed probably already have) written myself.

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Here's a list ( Read more... )

On the one hand, the fact that the response to this poll is, so far, an overwhelming "Yes" is good news.

On the other hand, the fact that they're even putting this up as a poll at all, rather than just straight up going ahead and doing that to begin with, without needing to gauge approval or whatever, is utterly ridiculous, at least to me. Yes, ( Read more... )

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The above video was one that I found in the comments under the Kotaku article that owsf2000 mentioned and which was linked to from the PC Gamer article he linked to.

I certainly haven't been the biggest fan of TotalBiscuit lately, but I thought I'd give this video a go, all the same.

( #1: Pay-2-win. )

owsf2000's post, my comment.

Fuck.
Konami.
Forever.

Seriously, modern video game industry? Seriously? ಠ_ಠ

I think Angry Joe (or, rather, the Sovereign) says it best:
My Reaction to FF7 being "Episodic"! pic.twitter.com/05Zw6d9dOT
- Joe Vargas (@AngryJoeShow) December 7, 2015
I'm just glad I was already mostly apathetic about the FF7 remake in the first place, even before this news ( Read more... )

owsf2000's post. My comments.

You know the drill by now, I guess. *apathetic shrug*

That's great.

As for me, I'm simply looking forward to playing the GotY/Ultimate version with allmost of the bugs fixed and all of the inevitable DLC bundled in, whenever that gets released in a few years. *shrug*

owsf2000's post. My comment.

Same. Old. Shit.

Going by the metaphor of "spiraling down the toilet" or whatever, the video game industry is already far past that and is well on its way to the sewage treatment plant by this point in time. The sewage treatment plant, in this metaphor, is (hopefully) another gigantic industry crash, like the one I've been ( Read more... )

owsf2000's post. My comment. (At this rate, maybe my journal here should just redirect entirely to Mord's, given how little I bother to use it on my own lately outside of linking back to his posts...)

In short, this is a perfect textbook example of everything that is fucking wrong with the modern video game industry, in a nutshell.