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That's a big thing that's wrong with gaming culture right now. We are working on it. Great. Leave them to it. This incessant demand, "when is it coming, when is it coming!??" It needs to stop. Let the good people create good shit. Because with demand, the shareholders pick up on that, and then they too are all over everyone. Long story short, you end up with a Day 1 beta product that brings your 128gb 7800x3d 4090 PC to it's knees, and your PlayStation won't even run it at 10 frames a minute. Then everyone's like how did this happen, and I mean sure blame the developers. But this culture needs a bit of a slap too.
I'm not sure if you are saying that the stock market has destroyed quality gaming, due to corporations constantly trying to cash in from obligations to stockholders, but that's my position. The crass consumerism that have an unfillable hole that is in perpetual persuit of the next new game release. I blame the lack of quality individuals in society, how hollow people are that people have nothing interesting happening in life so their life revolves around the internet and blah blah blah online, rather than focusing on building a life outside without getting everything through a screen. Corporations have exploited how empty day to day people are.
For sure it's at least a big factor in most cases. Consumerism, the whole keeping up with the Jones thing, and that thirst for the next hottest thing is pretty inarguably a big factor. But 20, 30 years ago, you didn't have back to back to back triple A games being released in unplayable states. There was no day 1 updates and all of that. Don't get me wrong, that can be a good thing too, but there's no world where it's acceptable that a customer should be leaving a storefront with a $80-100 game that isn't really functional.
In fact, I'd bet if one was to correlate the introduction and consolidation of private equity companies/IPOs (and all of that) to the video game industry, and the instances of this happening, that you'd find pretty significant correlation. Aka the shareholders demand that profits always increase quarter over quarter, so some things get rushed out the door against the will of the people actually creating the product. The fucking suits basically.
I'm in full blanket agreement you. Everything you said, I strongly support you.
The problem is not simple capitalism, because capitalism is how we have grocery store variety and clothes to buy. Gaming as been messed up due to all this IPO junk, shareholders, equity companies, I'm fully with you without exception.