The Video Game Industry

"Exposure"...<snerk>

But honestly, about what I expect from them.

Edited by M84 on Nov 1st 2022 at 7:39:05 PM

Going off Musk's proclivities with sharing other people's content cropped on Twitter, I expect this would be a new Tesla-specific version with any developer logos removed and nothing else changed. Exposure as in "being left out in the cold," after all.

Edited by RedSavant on Nov 1st 2022 at 4:45:17 AM

Tesla aside, the practice of getting people to work for exposure rather than money in the video game industry is deplorable.

Tesla apparently thought a "small-time" indie developer would be glad to put their game in their cars for free. As if Tesla was doing them a favor.

I'd like to see them make this kind of offer to Sony.

"Hey Sony, we'd like you to put God of War: Ragnarok in our cars. No we won't offer any money to you. But think of the exposure!"

"...No."

Tesla genuinely trying to do the whole “exposure bucks” meme makes me think of when the nincompoops at Rooster Teeth boasted that ‘’gen:LOCK’’ was the only mech series that focused on the characters. It’s be funny five years ago but now it’s just pathetic.

Edited by AlleyOop on Nov 1st 2022 at 8:38:17 AM

It's especially absurd after years of Epic and Amazon going to developers and saying "We'll pay you a lump sum to let us give your game away for free."

There's an established (more or less) protocol here. Now, I have quibbles with the size of the payments, but they're at least paying for it and not just claiming exposure.

Heh, maybe I should go to the nearest Tesla store (there actually is one within walking distance come to think of it) and ask for a free Model X. Tell them I'd be offering them "exposure".

When they say you'll be paid in exposure, they mean you won't be able to afford clothing.

Embracer Group has already shut down Onoma, formerly Square Enix Montreal (Lara Croft and Hitman reboots), just three weeks after acquiring them; staff have been moved to Eidos Montreal.

Do you mean Deus Ex? Hitman was I/O Interactive from start to finish.

And the only Hitman thing that Onoma had a hand in was those mobile games. Not to mention that the actual games developed by I/O prior to going independent was under the umbrella of Square Enix Europe.

Edited by terumokou on Nov 1st 2022 at 2:09:51 AM

Because of New York CIty's transparency laws regarding job pay (a business must list the pay of a job if the hire at least 4 workers), we've got some pay listings:

Considering there will be similar laws for California and Washington states, where a ton of gaming companies' headquarters are located in the US, this is just a sampler.

So I’ve got a question:

Do you guys just feel like the stuff that the gaming industry does makes it harder for you to get excited about new releases?

Like, I’ve been getting increasingly disgusted with the game industry lately and in turn I’ve decided to buy older out of print games. Rarely getting new releases outside of Christmas.

Not really. I just avoid falling into the hype train. I also wait a week after release to see if a game is worth getting.

That or I wait for games to go on sale.

That question implies that it was ever easy for me to get excited by new releases to begin with, which... hasn't been the case for a long time.

And yeah, usually I wait for sales and/or reviews

Edited by Reflextion on Nov 4th 2022 at 2:41:34 PM

Yeah. I think what also is at play for me is that most newer games just don’t interest me.

Most of the answers you'd probably get would be varying degrees of "I don't particularly care for new games, especially ones made by triple A companies.".

Meh. I know what I like, so I’m able to get games early with a very low risk of disappointment.

Outside of very specific few games, I no longer get excited by new releases.

Though that's also partly due to my backlog being so big I can't really find myself caring very much about adding more to it.

Same. It also doesn't help that I don't really watch pre-release stuff as much so a lot of the stuff I play happens to be me going in blind.

I only get excited about a few specific series, but I find it hard to get excited about new stuff.

Wanted to get into Horizon Zero Dawn, but that game is just too difficult for me.

I'm not usually aware of pre-release announcements to begin with; there are currently a grand total of two (2) games I'm interested in in advance, which is a longer list than any time I can remember.

I'm usually only excited for games which I know I'll like.

I'm excited for the Dwarf Fortress Steam release, for example. Beyond that, I don't follow the bigger games too closely so I don't feel too strongly about them.

If I start to get hyped by a game from a problematic company I'll usually go: " oh no, it's looks awesome, but it's from that company," and proceed to stamp down my hype.

Edited by tclittle on Nov 4th 2022 at 7:27:59 AM

I pay little to no heed to most third party video game releases, as a stubborn Nintendo boy, knowing said platforms would inevitably get excluded.