too little goddamn time.
"So here's the thing. In February, around 850 games launched on Steam, which is about 40 a day,"
I'm not your typical gamer, I try to reach the credits of everything I play. My favourite genre is JRPG which also doesn't help. But even if your average game time is 10 hours how many games can one man buy? I bought NNK2 and FF15RE this month.
How can this industry continue to survive? Who is buying all the indie shit?
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Nobody. Unless the game also has a card system, in which case the steam mega-autists looking to increase their levels will buy them and 'play' them for a few hours until they get their drops.
Haven't you seen ?
The answer is:
No one.
Nobody, the only people winning is Valve since you pay them ~$100 to put your indie game on their site, so most are in the red at the end of the day.
I guess there's worse games to buy-.
You better of just gotten it for your PS4 to have a game on it and not supported denuvo.
Literature and film enthusiasts have the same problem. Even if you were to only go through the stuff that's been produced up until now, that's already more games than a person can play and complete within 10 lifetimes. Then there's more stuff being made and released on top of that every day. Inevitably you're going to miss out on some good games, but when you consider that 3/4 of any media is between garbage and mediocre, you're not missing out on as much as you might initially believe.
And if you take just one look at what most of those games are you realise they really aren't worth your time.
Both NNK and FF15 are trash.
I recommend Devil Summoner for PS2 instead.
There's hundreds of millions of gamers (over 150M on Steam alone) today, nearly two billion if you include all the casualshitters on browsers & phones, spending over $107 billion last year.
Sadly, this bounty of riches doesn't seem to be big enough for developers to feel the slightest loyalty toward niche markets, no matter how lucrative, instead of watering everything down in the hopes of roping in a million extra casuals.
Man, I was kind of looking forward to pirating Ni No Kuni 2. It looked like a decent thing to keep me occupied until Falcom decides to hand the Ys8 port to someone actually competent.
I do agree that devil summoner is a very good game but NNK looks good.