/v/ - Video Games

They'll just tone it down and keep lootboxing. Faggots will still lap up lootboxes they just won't do it to battlefront because someone said something. They're still doing it on other games and they will keep doing it on others until someone shoots it on the fucking head which is not likely to happen anytime soon.

So far they're only pointing fingers at ea and codfags.

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>>13851952

>I have zero interest in this industry

>don't talk about anything ever

How does it feel to be such massive fucking faggots?

>>13851868

The yids will start making games that charge players by the hour to play them.

Games as a service :

Like modern adobe shitware, you can no longer buy it, but have to pay a monthly fee for each game. Everything is in "the cloud" and it'll still have paid DLC & micro transactions.

Also, after not renewing a game's subscription for 3 months, you'll lose everything associated with it (saves as well as any shit you bought for it)

Feel free to screencap this, for it is the future that awaits us, the future you choose.

If jews already thought of a better alternative than shoving lootboxes into shit, it would have already happenend. My bets are on a free loot box/opening system, but you can pay for better chances to get rare items. These "chances" are a course limited. Whales still buy the fuck out of them, and it is not gambling.

Japan went through this shit five years ago with Idolmaster and the compromise was that the developer had to have the draw rates available to the player, so that they know exactly how likely the chance was to get what they wanted. Therefore it's not considered gambling by legal definition.

What are the chances this happens in the west? Do western gambling laws already cover this kind of thing?

>Cheering on regulators when they apply the laws and rules of an industry to a completely different and incomparable industry in a way that sets entirely new precedents on the application of those regulations (applying gambling laws that regulate parlors to purchasing a lootbox) as well as setting entirely new precedents on the subject of the application (state regulation of videogames) because you don't like the company or games that it's effecting in this one specific case.

If loot boxes dissolve, it will be the first step towards the end of gaming. If loot boxes officially get recognized as a form of gambling, or if microtransactions have such a negative public image that they directly and severely impact sales of games, then major publishers will start to move to find other ways to screw people out of more and more money;

>subscription-based model, where you buy a game for cheap and still have to pay a recurring monthly cost to play World of Warcraft did it, right?

>increased prices for single-player games, up from $60 per title to $80 or $100 After all, games are cheaper than ever after inflation.

>more games, more often, at a cheaper price, with fewer bells and whistles, and likely to be produced episodically, such as The Walking Dead and Life is Strange Because most gamers don't even finish the game and stop after a couple of hours, so why should games even go much longer than that?

No matter what happens, each company will put a ridiculous corporate spin on their bullshit tactics, which will drive down sales when combined with what is undoubtedly going to be even LESS effort put into their games. People will buy less and less into the big AAA titles, eventually driving them out of the industry in favor of smaller titles and fresh companies that actually try to make good games.

I highly doubt the industry is going to hard-crash similar to the Atari crash, considering the barrier to entry into the gaming industry is realistically fighting against nepotism and has nothing to do with the availability of hardware and software. Really, anyone with a few months or years of spare time and some artistic friends can make their own game. The problem solely becomes getting the word out, or getting into a larger, more professional part of the industry; you have to get your foot in the door, and that's more difficult anymore than actually making a game until you get into the ridiculous politics of corporate bullshit involved, but that can quickly become much more of a labor law issue rather than barrier to entry.

Ultimately, small-time developers will make what will likely be bigger AND better in most ways, large corporations will have such a negative name that they will only have two choices: play by the rules or get even more predatory and ultimately die lobby congress to do… something, I don't fucking know, and I doubt it would work

>>13853305

>arguing that regulations should not be applied to predatory business practices that are designed to take advantage of the addictive nature of a select group of individuals because of the honestly natural and reasonable fear that nanny-state restrictions could get out of hand by overreacting, corrupt lawmakers, ultimately destroying a beloved industry corrupted by greedy businessmen who never cared for a second about the products they peddle

>not discussing a better idea

>thinly veiled jewing brainstorming thread

If you want money, go write banking code.

They could make good, reasonably priced video games, that people want to buy.

>>13852692

It did already has. Software its called software as a service. The only difference between a Adobe subscriber and some company with a tailor made office software is, that the Adobe User can't call the dev's office and drive him insane with new tasks.

>>13852701

And done.

>>13853462

>subscription-based model

Every MMO ever before the gooks came in

>increased prices for single-player games

>Games will cost 100$ a pop again

What you said is going to happen anyway, because the entire world is using fiat currencies. This is why I corrected it to the old price. In case you ask how I know that: I owned my Sega Genesis since launch and I have bought the vast majority of the games for it second hand just before the prices for them went apeshit. Why? Because we didn't have the fucking money for shoving SEGA 100 benis into its ass each month.

>>more games, more often, at a cheaper price, with fewer bells and whistles

>More episodic crap.

Already happening and failing. Just look!

https://archive.is/MRIcd

This is about Telltalle games, the inventor of modern episodic gaming. They also weren't that gigantic with their 360 now 270 employees. If you still that this is new, don't look further than the Epic Games portfolio from the 90s. Having no memory at all must be fucking awesome. Don't worry, the next fad for jewing people out of money is just around the corner! Here are some recent ones you forgot:

>Abandoned Early Access/Eternal Beta

>First cheap Early Access, then Jacking up the price at release

>Releasing a unfinished game out of early access

>Splitting games into two

>Making Games partly or mostly unplayable for the sake of the cash shop

>Designing games for gook TV and then hyping up a artificial competitive scene

>>13855268

That's a good point. The reason the industry suffers from a collective Alzheimers epidemic every 15 years or so is the corporate promotion model. There are literal code masters anywhere ever, same goes for sound engineers, graphics people and QA. Usually they stay for a few projects and if they don't, say delete the perforce repository, they get promoted and then replace by the next bunch of college kids. Speaking of; I know from a first hand source that a well known and formerly beloved Studio hires and fires programmers and artists on a project for project basis. These jobs are also often pay only minimum wage so they don't become subject to social insurance fees. Indie games are even worse in this regard, because they are made with tools and according to memes that enable absolute hacks.