Former PlayStation boss says games are "seeing a collapse in creativity" as publishers spend more time asking "what's your monetization scheme?"
Former PlayStation boss says games are "seeing a collapse in creativity" as publishers spend more time asking "what's your monetization scheme?"
No, actually, games are being ruined because Tifa's jumblies got shrunk 2%
Hmm, they shrank his shoulders her jumblies. Made him look my pp soft.
What's your monetization scheme?
Seize the means of game production
"Bosses" at big companies sure do become a lot more courageous after leaving their throne
If only games didn't take 8 years to develop as well.
This is due to the whole "we need to model the physics of light passing through each bead of sweat" graphics and everything needing to use original assets mostly right?
I wonder howany people even want such a thing.
That's a lot. There's also a lot of project management bloat, churning the same work over and over because the direction of the project keeps changing. And it's also a whole lot that it's become normal for AAA games to have absurd scopes, 70 hour play times, open worlds, every mechanic anyone has ever heard of, etc.
The physics of light thing is handled by the engine so unless they're making one from scratch (which no one does given that in-house engines are shared across teams) it's not a time sink for the studio
Unique assets are a bigger problem yes
Bug fixing when the game has a poorly defined scope is a big one too
I have heard some of it is due to trying to prevent crunch, but I'm sure that is minimal, but yeah, most of it is from absurdly complicated graphics.
No shit
