- MangudaiFritz
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- Exalted Legendary Member
In order to sell as many copies of the game and as quickly as possible to get the next game out and rinse and repeat you have to appeal to mass mob of people. The only problem with that is you cannot please everyone, even though the objective of the game industry is to make the most money. There comes a tipping point where the free market of AAA can become a monopoly and is draining away what made these games in the first place- exactly why there is little innovation and creativity matched with the big price budget. Throw as much money at the talent all you want, but money does not create the ideas. AAA is like the Hollywood of game biz, the best is supposed to reign here, and in some cases does. "Bungie making Halo games for years on end is unfathomable" exactly, under a stellar creative management it is possible to meet the dollar expectations as well as pursuing innovative games.
There are some real heroes who see this in the game biz, the ones who got free to play in the convenience model to work, the studios who support modding and indie games under their belts, and people in power who recognize the commitment of motivated people in a community in the name of a passionate hobby, of course that doesn't and shouldn't affect the game studios official business, but the fact that it can on another level influence and help make the studio foster a stronger following while providing to the community adding to the financial backing to do so. Ensemble studios, Fasa, Turtle Rock, etc. shining examples of creative risk takers that could make stuff happen, but it looks like the wallets had doubts even on a track record, shame a recurring cycle.
The only way to get better is to listen to criticism. Self motivation is and always will be the most important form of motivation. Driving with your eyes on the rear view mirror is exhausting. Point being Bungie is going to do their own thing as always, and the community as well, in all different directions always not accountable for each other, and communism is a fraud the idea of appealing to everyone's desires. Good design is free inspiration to those smart and humble enough to collect every fragment of it in visual arts and then piece it together into something much more extravagant. People do it anyway and there is no reason to fight it, dumb people will learn or they don't. The smart people will innovate something that the people with the money never saw coming and blow us all out of the water. Of course we want good games the next generation is a generation of contrast that laughs at hypocrisy and moves games forward.
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