Okay so I was perusing Kotaku, as some of us do, and a particular article shot right out and hit me head on.
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
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.
It depends on what the hate is for...
If it was for something like the whole Microsoft reveal with the Xbox One including DRM and the like, the Sim City DRM, the Mass Effect 3 ending, franchises like Dead Space 3, Resident Evil or dmc straying away from it's roots while one dev, NT, calls a franchises fans or a developer shoving things we don't like down our throat like what Square Enix do with FF13...then I guess it's fine to hate on them since they brought it on themselfs
And in the same token praise where its not due or hasn't been earned needs to stop as well.
This article is pretty much spot on. It is more than fine to point out problems with a game or your opinion even if it is negative. On the other hand it is not appropriate to denigrate other people.
If you can't make a valid criticism about something without degenerating to insults then you are nothing more than a bully.