You're laughing. The western games industry is buckling under its own weight and you're laughing.
You're laughing. The western games industry is buckling under its own weight and you're laughing.
You're laughing. The western games industry is buckling under its own weight and you're laughing.
It turned itself into an unprofitable industry, morty.
Frick em, AAA can die. It's full israelite/globo crap since forever now. We can look forward to litterally every other AA or indie instead.
More like yawning
two more weeks
It doesn’t have to be this way. Stupid western dogs are just horrible at managing money.
palworld single handedly destroyed the western industry
You’re supposed to use that point with a game made with passion ingenuity.
Not some soulless unity-asset store looking survival crafting slop. Palworld could have easily been made by mutts, it’s nothing special.
uhmm its unreal engine sweaty because it doesnt run like shit like craftopia which runs on unity
Based
Cringe
And it is more or less a soulless asset flip, which is crazy. But they made it fun.
Genuinely weird how something that really does feel like it's low effort put effort in the right places and it's enjoyable.
it's fun because there is no gayhomosexual diversity BLM messaging.
Correct
MG survive has better combat
Palworld chads, I kneel.
I'll just add this to my list of things that didn't happen but should. Let's see....
1.Holocaust
2.Western Video Game industry collapse
Go woke, fire all the good people and replace them with Pajeets, "minorities" and woman, go broke.
People with passion and talent are mostly in the indie scene now.
THEY GET WHAT THEY FRICKING DESERVE
>under its own weight
Fitting
>layoffs
>decrease in DEI efforts
>AI
it's joever
Imagine actually posting a fricking joker meme thread in 2024. It's time to grow up, cringelord.
I never watched the joker movie and think gosling memes are cringe AMA
>rar i hate Ganker culture but hang out here all day
Guess youve been banned from everywhere else.
They brought it upon themselves.
In practice it's a bunch of talented people being released from the hands of the most moronic bosses in the planet
Should have made games. Instead of LGBTQ propaganda
Yes.
I want to see the AAA gaming studios collapse or break up into smaller studios, so companies like EA don't own dozens of franchises they refuse to do anything with since it won't be the most profitable IP they could touch.
I want to see "muh graphix" oriented gaming die a painful death, and companies to stop chasing photo-realism and trying to sell games based on looks, and instead focus on selling games that are actually fun. Minecraft did it and sold more than anything else, and they still can't figure it out.
I want to all the gaming historians, journalists, and other wanna-be experts resign from GDC, and only successful developers put back on the menu like it was prior to the late 90's. It was supposed to be successful devs sharing ideas and techniques, not a bunch of literal who's telling wanna-be devs how they should make their game more inclusive.
I want to see computer games take advantage of all the opimization and compression available today to make the games run well on crap hardware and take up as little space as possible, not just demand higher specs from the player and expect everyone to be using $2000 video cards to get 30FPS.
I want to see digital storefronts crash and burn, and the right of resale returned to gamers. I can buy books, movies, music, all on physical media I can resell whenever I wish. There's no reason other than pure greed and "Eh, frick our customers" to not allow that with videogames.
And I want to see everyone involved in pushing videogames from what it was in the 80's and 90's to the nightmare of today, to be burnt alive.
>So lemme get this straight you think Japanese games are better than western games?
>western
that implies Europe. No one is getting laid off in europe.
>b-b-but my american slopgames!
no one cares
Black person
https://www.eurogamer.net/outriders-developer-people-can-fly-reportedly-lays-off-over-30-employees
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/11/23981094/timesplitters-studio-free-radical-design-shuts-down
https://www.ign.com/articles/ruiner-developer-reikon-games-reportedly-lays-off-80-of-the-company
https://readwrite.com/eas-evolving-business-needs-means-layoffs-at-uk-studio-codemasters/
https://www.eurogamer.net/destroy-all-humans-studio-cuts-half-its-staff
https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/uk-games-industry-layoffs-continue-with-f1-manager-developer-frontier-3516571
https://www.eurogamer.net/fall-guys-developer-hit-hard-by-epic-games-layoffs-but-studio-to-remain-open
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ci-games-lays-off-10-of-staff
>no response
I'm only sad I can't murder with my own hands the pedophile trannies and entitled women that sucked the fun out of vidya, and the executives who pushed bloodsucking methods such as lootboxes and passes.
Tekken 8 just released. 47,000 players are in game. Tekken 7 max simultaneous users was 19,000. Pretty good for niche genre.
Good one reddit
>posting RE4R
But that game directly appeals to the western crowd by turning it into a basic third person shooter.
anon what do you think re4 is
No Ashley panties, no RE4.
Simple as.
I am
I'm not laughing, because it hasn't completely collapsed yet.
The western game industry decided to go
>"I WANT A BIG BLACK DICK IN MY butthole, WOOOOHOOO"
-and then its anus eventually collaped
and somehow I can't laugh?
Gaming was ended when it was deemed necessary for Fortnite to have a holocaust museum
Yes, I consoom superior NIPPON entertainment mostly.
>Yes, I consoom superior NIPPON entertainment mostly.
weebs are so fricking embarassing
Based
>wearing masks
i can already tell they are all vaccinated and boostermaxxed so their blood is forever tainted and their pussy is useless
Calm your breasts Pedro, didn't you watch enough anymay to know they usually wear those over there? Either way, I'd plap them all like a deaf guy hitting a bell and cleanse them with my pure aryan genes.
you will contract leprosy and your dick will fall off
I lost interest in 2014. Since then I've only played 2 or 3 games a year.
>Game industry crashes
>Big studios blow up
>Indie devs still around
>Start making games with hunks and babes again
>Gaming gets saved
It's getting exactly what it deserves. When the dust finally settles a new golden age will begin.
I'm not. However some of those 1900 people deserved it.
The western game industry has no one to blame but itself for the state it’s in, constantly chasing trends instead of pushing for new experiences, the overinflated unsustainable nature of AAA gaming, the casualization of everything for the sake of mass market appeal, trying to appease shareholders and mentally ill dangerhairs on Twitter and being hostile of fans. Need I go on?
>Need I go on?
Yes, actually. To prove just how dire things have become.
Not really western development, but western """"LOCALIZATION""""" in Japanese videogames, hope they also start getting laid off.
And yes, I know that "IA IS REPLACING THEM" news from recent Dragon maid fiasco, but thats not enough for me.
I want Jap studios using said IA and I want to start seeing NISA, XSEED, KOEI USA, SQUENIX USA, etc... closing doors.
Ah yes, localizers who think it’s their job to dictate how people are supposed to feel about whatever is being localized and insist their use of zoomer slang and memes is somehow making things better.
I'm not laughing, I'm celebrating!
Not my problem
I will be playing retro games and i will laugh
Yes
Maybe they shouldn't have hired so many useless pajeets and fat communists
>Try to make slop
>It gets dropped
>Surprised gamers don't just eat it up
Wow, it's like gamers who don't say anything are actually the majority of gamers.
but gamers are eating up slop right now
>Post palworld in response to 'slop'
Keep the seethe strong little buddy.
openworld survivalcraft with unity store assets is the definition of slop. that applies to that game.
So Pokemon Blue and Yellow are an asset flip of Red, so is Blue and Yellow slop, or is Red the slop?
Notice how Palworld has one 'version'.
It's not Palworld Black person Black and Palworld Massa White
Yeah it's just "early access," another kind of universally reviled slop.
I actually find it hilarious, if it weren't pokemon related, and owning nintendo, it would have easily been called out for being the slop that it is.
Trade Offer!
I give you one "Black person", and ignore anything you have to say.
You give me one Seethe Token.
The point is that companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars have also made slop for a decade with the only novelty that they try to appeal to people that don't play videogames.
Stop being dense.
>It's not slop when I shill for it.
It's slop
It's a videogame which works as advertised. It builds upon a successful formula while adding its own concept. As such, it sold over 5 million copies.
It's not an "interactive experience" which serves as an excuse for the studio to push propaganda to get a good ESG score while the development is outsourced to India.
Simple as.
If you are going to call something "openworld survivalcraft with unity store assets" at least make sure the game is made with unity and not UE, moron.
And if a group of autists can steal an idea and make a slop that is 10 times more compelling than whatever a AAA studio can create with their almost unlimited budget, that's tells more about the AAA studio than the current state of videogames.
I wasn't, but now that you've brought it to my attention I am now.
I can't specifically remember the last Western AAA game I enjoyed.
Batman Arkham Knight maybe. Even then I prefer City and Asylum.
>The western games industry is buckling under its own weight
Palworld did this
Activision needed a purge moron
It's like gamergate and holocaust at the same time
OWS was started by a Canadian commie rag a psy op from the start
yup, but it's mostly socialists that push OWS as something good
japan numbah one
why should I care if the game industry is crashing? They did it to themselves.
>day of the rope was Christmas+one month
lol
lmao
Honestly, I waited for it.
>Push ever higher dev costs as a barrier to entry for new competitors
>surprised when you can't afford to make a game anymore
Sony and Microsoft build their own demise, Iwata warned them almost 20 years ago that they will be cannibalizing each other over an ever shrinking market while expenses get exponentially higher
Not our fault
Not our problem
Should've listened to Yamauchi
>Yamauchi
Didn't he say that gamers that play RPGS are lonely and depressed losers? I don't think he would like Palworld tbh senpai
He also said
>I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the videogame business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.
>The idea of competing on hardware prices, or thinking that selling hardware with software as a bonus means winning, doesn't work. No matter how much you expand the hardware, it's useless. The software has to gradually catch up; otherwise, it's no good. Such a fighting style is based on a hardware-centric approach, and it won't work because it's different from the original software-oriented strategy.
>If we don't introduce innovative ideas, games themselves will become monotonous and boring. Additionally, "grand and elaborate" types of software are complex in content, requiring time, labor, and expenses to produce. Even if billions of yen are invested and a hit game sells a million copies, it might still be at a loss. In that case, it's not sustainable as a business. Even a "light, simple, and compact" game can be well-crafted and enjoyable.
Tell me he was wrong about the industry.
>hire a billion skittles haired troons over covid
>covid was a scam and is never coming back
>fire all the skittle haired troons
Wow its almost like the free market works.
I am not since that isn't happening and I don't suffer a mental issue like delusions.
The last time the gaming industry collapsed everything became immensely better.
I say let it die.
The vidya industry only "crashed" in a single country and even then not really.
>market saturation
>poor quality games
>waning interest in consoles for PC
>lack of consumer confidence
it's literally 1984 all over again
>Home video game revenue peaked at around $3.2 billion in 1983, then fell to around $100 million by 1985 (a drop of almost 97 percent)
>crashed, but not really
lol, lmao