As you should be.

They spent decades putting an end to meritocracy so they could lord over us with unearned positions of power.

Couldn’t be me. I only pay full price for games when it’s exceptional games like arc raiders or quality indie games with fair pricing.

A motto was never going to stop them from going sour. Any corporation that gets large enough and is publicly traded is going to attract sociopaths, narcissists and other Patrick Bateman wannabes to the positions of leadership within the corp like sharks to chum. It is a matter of when that gradual shift from good people to bad people takes place, not if.

The problem is that our economy and corporate structures reward the scummiest people because they’re the best at making profits.

These people own the government. You can’t beat them with politics. They’re not going to be brought to heel until they are made to be actively afraid of the working class.

Capitalism destroyed america. Citizens United was an inevitable product of an economy designed to give rich people more power over time and poor people less.

It always turns back into feudalism.

DRG survivor has gotten a bunch of updates. I’d say it’s far better than how it was at launch.

I’ve been tired of live service games since before fortnite had battle royale.

As far as I’m concerned blizzard died when they merged with Activision.

RIP remedy

Xfire was all we ever needed.

It’s because the only way to become a famous musician anymore is nepotism. You have to be born into a wealthy well connected family so you can get record contracts and actually have the time to hone your craft.

What you’re seeing are industry plants; the hobby of trust fund kids.

How is everyone involved at every step of this so utterly mentally impaired

Most of the shareholder oligarchs who own our economy are lead poisoned boomers and this is all just their way of competing with each other for the top spots on the forbes richest people list.

oof

It amazes me that anyone played any far cry or assassins creed game in the last 10 years and went “yes this is a good game”. All they make is bare minimum surface level crap and it’s been that way for a loooooong time.

For Honor was their last good game.

OP, what is an example of an excellent game in your eyes?

me too Mario, me too

Arc Raiders launched as a feature complete game, mostly bug free, well optimized, with a sufficient amount of functioning servers, and with genuinely innovative game design.

It sold incredibly well at 40 dollars. I’ve bought it 4 times myself.

Expecting every game to meet those criteria is not “absurd”. It used to be par for the industry and it still should be.

AAA games from publicly traded corporations are just absurdly underwhelming. They want us to think these standards are absurd so they can keep their minimal effort bullshit gravy train running. It’s not going to work anymore. That’s the free market. Adapt or die.

Aka the market has rejected your overpriced bullshit. Adapt or die. Welcome to the free market.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a mega corporation and previously had the winning formula. You adapt to meet evolving market demand or you die.

These c suites got too comfy doing everything to only please their shareholders. They forgot that pleasing their consumers wasn’t optional. We are your money supply. If you lose us, it all comes crashing down.