I think only the billionaires themselves or the entirety of normal folk united could end such a thingโฆ
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And with how petty the former tend to be I would bet the later would do the deed
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It seems like every time that happens new, even worse people tend to take the lead though
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Maybe we could learn from our mistakes at some point?
(Also did we get political enough yet?)
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Hopefully, one of the best aspects of humans is that we learn from our mistakes
Weโre probably on the edge of what is and isnโt allowed
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Hopefully, not famous last words โฆ
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The prosperity gospel is really all about extorting money
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Itch.io is kind of neat. Although Iโd argue itโs more for indie games and short demos than anythingโฆ
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I find it kind of weird they used the .io domain which has been mostly reserved for browser games
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it also lacks DRM!! it does not have any big AAA or even AA games though, and it doesnโt manage installs and such automatically like steam, GoG, epic, or GoG through lutris or heroic on linux (GoG lacks a native linux client sadly but since thereโs no DRM and the APIs are sane you can just use a community ones, unlike steam).
that association is coincidence, agario and a few proto-io games used .io because it was cheap and easily pronounceable so it could be slotted in to the end of your name, and every .io game copied them
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Didnโt the quality of these go into the dumpster in the recent years? Or were these only some isolated incidents?
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Fun fact: The epic games launcher was made in unreal engine.
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So much glamour in those names for a subpar launcher/store
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People say that like itโs an objective fact. it isnโt but it is true. AAAs have had an increasing amount of microtransaction-filled skinner boxes with no real gameplay for over a decade, theyโve been increasing in price at a pace to outdo inflation, and DLC, rereleases, and ports have been getting less attention and more expensive. That doesnโt mean they arenโt important. No one is buying a steam deck to play the new Thrive version or even play through Hades, no one is buying a 5070 laptop to play another crabโs treasure or ultrakill or whatever. AAA games pull the industry along. Games like Baulderโs Gate 3 and Silksong suggest that kind of hype and momentum can build up behind games without a billion dollars and 500 fired devs (yes if you didnโt know larian studios isnโt AAA, they are at most A), however the world isnโt built for that. Big games are mostly made by big studios. Elden Ring Nightrein will bring people to your game console or storefront or whatever. Genshin Impact will keep people on it. Slay the Spire and PEAK canโt do that, and they both made bank.
LMAOOO no wonder it runs like crap, funner fact, the godot editor is made in godot! Thatโs why it was relatively easy to port to android, in fact if you want to do gamedev on android, godot is basically your only option.
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Shouldnโt AAAs still be replaced by indie games eventually?
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theoretically speaking thats only possible under some form of non-capitalist marxism or anarchy. the definition of AAA is being funded by a large studio with ties throughout industry, more or less. Such studios are an obvious consequence of capitalism and having a video game industry, and without a video game industry, well, you donโt have a video game industry ?? I think the best outcome would be large studios taking creative control away from execs who fire entire teams and grant creative control to small teams or indie studios the AAA studio has a stake in. Small teams making what are basically indie games and not getting fired right after, but still ensuring market control goes to those who have market control so they wonโt flip out. Thatโd be cool, but it isnโt replacing AAAs with indies, itโs replacing AAAs with weird indie-AA hybrids. especially given than indie teams can make sprawling masterpieces like BG3 and apparently lies of P and clair obscure (i havenโt played them, too french/j), i donโt think we need billion dollar behemoths like CoD, but the industry is tied deeply into large studios.
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So his ego only grows. It will soon hit a wall at this speed.
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