With development costs rising, we need to make games based on user feedback, not numbers and data from the past, says NEXON Games executive

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Development costs don’t have to rise. l would gladly play games with pixel graphics or even ps2/3 graphics. Art direction >>> Graphical fidelity.

delirium

In the universe with 20-30% of actual inflation development costs will always rise even for indie because devs have to eat something and live somewhere. Not to mention software licensing and equipment

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Looking at you Valheim

DarkThoughts

The industry only knows either full blown AAA photo realism or WOW-esque cartoon shit.

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Right. The two games I play the most are Minecraft and Factorio. Both not amazing graphically but they’re fun.

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But executives don’t look at fun. They want something flashy to catch attention in an ad, neither Minecraft nor Factorio look like they imagine a fun game should. They don’t have outstanding visuals for their generation not audio, so really they don’t see the appeal. They want cutting edge for the sake of being cutting edge. They want cool because, to them, being cool sells more than being fun.

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With development costs rising, we need to make games based on user feedback, not numbers and data from the past, says NEXON Games executive

With development costs rising, we need to make games based on user feedback, not numbers and data from the past, says NEXON Games executive