• TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58 minutes

    I want gaming to be a health business that makes it long term but going after crackheads addicted to gambling, porn, and get rich quick schemes ain’t it

  • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4 hours

    Games are not losing attention. AAA publishers have been copy/pasting the same game for 2 decades.

    Their greed made them risk averse which is just another way to say boring in an artistic medium.

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 hours

        Pragmata isn’t the game competing with crypto, gambling, porn, and TikTok. That would be the likes of EA’s Not-FIFA, Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Destiny, NBA 2K; the kind of game that sells to people who don’t play many different video games.

      • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4 hours

        But have you heard of live service games? Gamers will continually pay for a 10-hour game with mechanics designed to trap lonely people with compulsive addiction issues for 5000 per year. Imagine all the billions that we will make from those suckers gamers.

        /s

    • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
      3 hours

      That is Microsoft’s ultimate problem, aside from how they started their current console cycle. They are too afraid to do something different, closing down studios that did something different and didn’t meet unhinged sales metrics. I think that their studios need to be allowed to cook and work on their specialty, in order to bring something awesome to the table.

      • some_designer_dude@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53 minutes

        Bringing awesome to the table is not compatible with Corporations who are legally obligated to be risk averse for the shareholders.

        • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
          24 minutes

          Yeah, awesome games often happen by accident, not on purpose in Corporate run scenarios…Especially when you don’t have heavy hitters that can often produce some real bangers in your ranks. Indie will always be the primary place where game innovation and breakout hits tend to happen.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3 hours

    Just look at Stellaris, Factorio or Rimworld players to know this is false. What modern games are clearly missing is genocide and crimes against humanity.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 minutes

      As a player of Stellaris, Stellaris players are crazy. They spend too much money on the games on DLC, that game has like more than $500 in DLC probably. Its insane.

      I just play multiplayer with someone who… acquired… the DLC lol.

  • 64bithero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    No no everyone things are way better now. They hit caps lock before they type Xbox now. So the world is fixed.

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3 hours

    I don’t want to play games that compare and compete to gambling, crypto and porn. Sounds like bad games to me. Good games don’t care about gambling and crypto.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    3 hours

    What an odd statement. Xbox is in direct competition with porn and crypto? Do they know any of those things? Do they think people are just like “hm, 60 dollars. I could game, buy porn, or crypto. Hmmmmmm”

    Anything to avoid looking inward. Their IPs have empty corporate souls because they’re made by souless corporate entities. Halo, Gears, Starfield, all shallow empty stories, and gamers are tired of it.

    Of course they don’t have souls so they assume gamers don’t either. Couldn’t be that were gaming to enjoy a story or feel something deeply, no we’re literally debating on gambling or video games. Jesus Christ so out of touch.

    • hypnicjerk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      let’s be real: it’s not a coincidence that sports gambling is an exploding market and sports games are shrinking. they are targeting the same people.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      They just hired this guy, and he made those statements before that, so it’s not avoiding looking inward. Besides there very much is a customer they’re losing to these other things, and they’re the largest market segment in gaming. It’s just not your demographic.