The Video Game Industry

They keep them for now. With how they are falling apart, the companies will likely be going different ways sooner rather than later.

What do you mean by falling apart?

Ok, I exagerated, but the group wasn't doing too well, it seemed like it got too big too quickly and a massive investement didn't go through.

They basically assumed that the Saudi money would just keep them afloat and the studios they bought would just immediately give them profits.

Putting all their eggs in that one hopeful and incredibly short-sighted Saudi deal without an escape plan pretty much fucked themselves over.

I'm not even sure how legal that was. Acquiring and sinking the boat looks embarassing for the FCC.

I knew a name like Embracer Group sounds so soulless, that it threw red flags instantly

Yeah, I can't recall if I've said before, but the name "Embracer Group" by itself gives off Evil Cyberpunk Megacorp vibes.

In fact, my suspicion is that the name is intended to invoke Evil Is Cool. They kind of larped being Sci-Fi supervillains a little too well.

Sharing a video on a recent failure of a Will Smith zombie game from Tencent… that I never heard of until my friend shared the video.

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Mar 29th 2024 at 10:37:23 AM

Sounds like it was doomed to fail then.

“Get my game off your mouth!”

bitch slaps

The YongYea video posted above is literally the first and only time I have heard about the game. With that kind of "marketing" it's no winder if flopped so badly.

Does it even have anything going for it besides starring some celebrity?

It uh… has an English dub? Surprisingly decent

So nothing at all then.

I imagine it's not an adaption of I Am Legend?

On his last day as Playstation CEO, Jim Ryan told the Playstation Podcast that the Playstation 2 sold 160 million units lifetime.

Jim Ryan is leaving Play Station?

announced it half a year ago. Said March 2024 he'd go

Edited by M1gamiTensei on Mar 29th 2024 at 2:55:42 AM

Cold Take talks about Video Game Industry tends to chase the trends and how often studios, that make good games of different genre, are forced to step "out of their comfort zone" and make the same thing that is popular on the market (for recent example looter shooters). He notices how making money just out of making good games aren't always liable to "grow the profits" (since higher ups don't want just a profit, but always a bigger profit than each previous game brought them) and how, due to overbundance of the games of the same genre, it's hard to make the players pay for another game, that just like the every other game on the market currently (be it military shooter, platformer or looter shooter), so the indutry often uses "next gen graphics" as a selling point.

Edited by VeryVileVillian on Apr 2nd 2024 at 5:55:30 PM

I think what a lot of these problems (And a lot of problems in this industry in general) come down to, aside from buying into the ”infinite growth” bullcrap, is that a lot of people in the top brass or who invest in game companies don’t actually UNDERSTAND or even care WHY people like games.

Quite often, it feels like they see something popular, think ”MONEY!” and try to imitate it without stopping to think why a game is successful.

It's like how the guy who nearly killed Unity thought that making people pay for every clip of ammo in...Medal of Honor (?) would go over well.

It'd suck all the fun out of the game and make it intolerable, but all he could think about was the money.

Something similar to that actually resulted in a game dying outright before.

The Culling got a disastrous relaunch where, before it got killed for good, they announced that playing matches would be limited by tickets you'd have to pay real money for. Otherwise, if you didn't want to cough money? You don't get to play whatsoever.

Yes, they actually went there. It was the final nail in the coffin for the game and ensured its demise. I think the company also fell apart soon afterward because of how much of a fiasco it was.

I really need to find a better way to keep up to date on video game news.

Was there an actual reason behind their clown logic or was just purely greed?

"Gamers are dumb consumers" probably?