Here is a hypothetical: EA and Bethesda and Ubisoft and Valve have finally taken it a step too far and done something so callously cheap and greedy that it causes normalfag interest in videogames to dwindle. People stop paying for unfinished early access games and DLCs. The bloated games industry starts to hemorrhage revenue. One by one, the video game branches of all the big media companies shut their doors and all the big game developers of this generation are now living on the street, shitting in paper bags and eating garbage. Just like in the 90's, investors once again view video games as a toxic market. The wealthy "SJW" clique has failed in their mission to change public attitudes about games; they abandon their plan to pad common core curriculum with shitty educational Twine games, and, almost overnight, the incessant pseudo-intellectual commentaries about gender and social issues in video games just stops.
Now, once again, video games are a niche hobby for nerds. Game studios, once again, are small and run exclusively by people with talent and vision, instead of suit-wearing apes with MBAs. However, we know that a few of these studios will make great games that gain popularity, allowing them to thrive and grow. We have maybe a 10-15 year window before these fledgling studios grow profitable enough to attract the attention of the giant media corporations. What do we do different this time to prevent them from sinking their claws in again?
Can you really blame these companies for wanting to make boatloads of money? The problem is always going to be how large the number of people interested in gaming in the world is, and therefore how much it needs to be pandered to as a homogenized group. And that group is always going to be seen as one that can be ever expanded and ever appealed to. Should that number go down, and we had a renaissance in gaming, I only think it would inevitably go back up again in a never ending cycle.
Nathaniel Edwards
You can't blame them any more than you can blame a starving lion for attacking a camper. However, you can recognize them as a hazard and take precautions to repel them.
Julian King
There's nothing you can do to stop it.
It's the low brow effect. The most profitable strategy for any form of media will be pandering to the lowest common denominator. This happens to every form of media: music, art, TV, movies. The only thing that's immune to this are novels, because brain dead normalfags only read maybe 3 shitty books a year, tops.
The current state of the game industry is the end result of human greed, so if you wanted to prevent it in a future reboot of the industry, the question you need to ask is: "how do you change human nature on a society wide scale?"
As for the SJW plague, that's simply because games are the newest form of media, therefor the least established, therefore the easiest to influence.
Dylan Cooper
Yes.
The economic crash was started by people selling sub-prime loans that they couldn't cash, with the expectation that new money would pay it off quickly along with interest which would make banks buttloads.
Instead no one could pay it back and the banks lost loads of dosh to the point of bankruptcy and the government bailed them out, which allowed these idiots to still operate despite being fucking idiots who can't understand that long-term gain is always better then a short-term cash grab.
Nintendo became the juggernaut it is by taking long term business decisions that ended up saving video games as a hobby and making it profitable to investors, while other companies like Sega and Capcom did the same shit. This collective decision to make money in the long term hurt no-one, and only benefited everyone.
EA and the like (Ubisoft is another example of a "sub-prime morgage loan seller")basically crashed video games into the shithole it is today, selling sub-prime videogames that quickly stopped fooling the customers, leaving them making net losses only barely saved by extra-selling marketing deals and hated universally.
If Nintendo, Sega and Capcom were the founding fathers, then EA, and Ubisoft are shitty ass sub-prime loaners.
Jaxon Diaz
So maybe one possible preventative measure is to only support games that are too complex/autistic for the general TV-viewing public. Maybe, to keep video games pure, we would sacrifice some of the less mentally engaging genres, like shooters.
Nicholas Moore
Intelligent discussion in MY VIDEOGAMES?
Keep it up, faggots. I was losing hope.
Landon Jones
"intelligent discussion"
Aaron Ramirez
If I see a man playing shit like Ultimate Tenkaichi, my first response is to berate him for it in a silly tone, which gets him the message without me looking like an asshole.
You should call out casuals where they stand.
Noah Walker
The cycle will always repeat. The best solution is for decent devs and consumers to take back independent and AA market. To buy decent games by small companies and get into the industry making decent games with small teams with real love for games.
The AAA market is almost impossible to save. Normalfags have proven time and time again that they're ready to get raped as long as they get their "gaymur cred"
