Truly exceptional games don't just appeal to their audience, David Gaider says, they expand it.
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I don’t think it’s just “time to cook”, pretty sure the devs having actual passion behind it also helps a lil bit.

Big corpos going just for the numbers are really good at stomping out all of that

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Agreed. They could have left Dragon Age in the oven for three more years and it would still be meh.

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honestly though, the game is a complete package AND it doesn’t come with a bunch of fucking microtransactions/live-service/etc. etc. Gaming is the one area where I think we would all like to see our games be made the same way they were 10-15 years ago, instead of the bullshit from today.

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the same way they were 10-15 years ago

So with more crunch and no unions? It goes both ways, it’s not a monolithic culture where passage of time simply makes things worse

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True, I didn’t really mean it to that extreme. and yea not saying gaming industry was perfect, there was plenty to gripe about in the past. Just on average, as a whole, the industry seems worse. The one exception I think are Indie games.

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You should see unions soon. Gaming industry is going to force every game designer and developer under a union because of the insecurities. A union guarantees they can’t fuck with you like the crunches. Or the absolute worse is when they have to do unpaid overtime which I think is illegal.

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Most office workers are categorized as computer work, which was lobbied to be exempt from paid overtime laws.

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