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Re:The video game industry can't go on like this by raxxorrax on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:49AM (#20514671)
That is partly due to fragmentation in my opinon. There are just so many games I want to play but there just isn't enough time. Even games that are a perfect fit for my personal tastes can go unnoticed this way. And the amount of games being released is so astonishing that even fans have difficulties to keep up with major releases.

That said, I don't consume many AAA-titles, I think game developer conferences are boring because they are 98% marketing vehicles and I just look up some streamers to get to the good stuff.

Factorio just offers more than call of mortal combat fantasy 85. If this market and especially the mobile segment has problems, I wouldn't really mind.

Sure, there are indie developers with good games that will feel this fragmentation. But I don't think anything can be done about it. Developing games is just a popular idea right now.

Since gamers started to finance development themselves, the result has mostly been awesome.

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Re:The video game industry can't go on like this by de_watcher on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:43AM (#20515150)
> and I just look up some streamers to get to the good stuff.

They're on payroll too now...

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Re:The video game industry can't go on like this by Mirioron on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @03:06PM (#20518541)
Many of them aren't, especially the smaller ones. You can always pop into their chats and ask them. You can also just look at the gameplay and determine whether you like it or not.
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