In a rare break with the media and political norms of painting video games as being evil and destrying children, British politician Shaun Woodward MP has said that the video game industry recieves unfair negative press and also claimed that this was echoed by the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
Woodward said, "There is a collective sense around that video games are bad," said Woodward. "The fact of the matter is we have got tens of millions of people playing video games in this country, deriving huge satisfaction and pleasure from it." He went on to say that the video games industry needed to work harder to advertise to wide society about the benefits of gaming.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
