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Just 2 weeks before the release of its next game, another studio falls victim to the relentless drive to be 'agile' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I don't understand: what's going on with the gaming industry? Is it suddenly not profitable anymore?

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[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's profitable, the problem is it's not profitable enough.

[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The problem is copyright that benefits only a tiny group of giant companies known as "les ayants-droits" in french. Copyrights as of today are not made to benefits the artisans, the workers but the black-suit men. The whole culture has been walled like that... The music industry, cinema industry and now game-industry...

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

The issue lies with these publishers.

See the problem is that they don't want to just make money, they want all the money and if your game you're proposing isn't based on a existing known IP and doesn't include psychological manipulation to make all the money, preferably through a live service, well these executives don't want none.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

The bottom is kinda falling out of the market and investors have dried up, largely because AAA has had too many extremely costly fuck-ups recently. Now the whole sector is looking bad, and it's been trickling down into impacting the ability for AA studios and indie teams to find funding for their projects.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 3 months ago

Is it suddenly not profitable anymore?

The answer is in the question.. it Is suddenly not profitable ~~any~~more

Plus, maybe the bunch of bigbuck$ games that recently bombed made investors slightly panicky.