Re:More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day,...
by Cumpiler69 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @12:08PM
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>I call this Product Manager driven game design.
I call it game design by HR. Everything today by big western games studios is designed to be so super safe and sterile just in case to not be offensive to absolutely anyone, so you end up with a limp-dick experience that's not fun to anyone.
Or worse, game devs insert their own social and political ideologies into the games like for example in Star Wars Outlaws you play as an outlaw who can only rob the police but not the civilians and can't kill animals only pet them.
People got into video games for the escapism from reality, not to have even more constrains than in reality placed upon then just so the game studio can tick all the $CURRENT_DAY social and political safety boxes. Nobody wants to buy that.
I call it game design by HR. Everything today by big western games studios is designed to be so super safe and sterile just in case to not be offensive to absolutely anyone, so you end up with a limp-dick experience that's not fun to anyone.
Or worse, game devs insert their own social and political ideologies into the games like for example in Star Wars Outlaws you play as an outlaw who can only rob the police but not the civilians and can't kill animals only pet them.
People got into video games for the escapism from reality, not to have even more constrains than in reality placed upon then just so the game studio can tick all the $CURRENT_DAY social and political safety boxes. Nobody wants to buy that.