Indies I think helped younger gamers and old gamers become less impressed by graphics compared to the past. Gamers expect more and there's many indies and old games people haven't played.

It's funny but I think my playstation 5is a Neflix machine and my most played game is days gone...

For some reason I feel like nothing interesting got released so far in this generation. Nothing big from Naughty dog. T.T

If that's not the business model, then I'm honestly not playing it.

And while I may be outnumbered by children playing Fortnite obsessively, at this stage of life I do have more money than gaming time.

Sorry that doesn't drive MAU, DAU, or ARPPU. Also we want users on our walled garden data harvesting service that's just "Steam but Worse", so I'm afraid you need to close your studio. What's that? Sorry you're breaking up, must be something wrong with the phone here in the Swiss Alps. Ok ta ta.

There's more to game development than that. Setting, art style, gameplay loop, interface...

The argument being made is that a "proven" mechanism for monetization is getting in the way of developing other attributes of gameplay, as the

• get potential players aware of it

and

• then have them pay

Steps are made the focus of design, and only known existing formulas for the above encourage the

• invest some money

step.

Exactly, the moment things cost real money in the game, the design of the game changes to increase likelihood of spending. Guild Wars 2 e.g. sells increased inventory space..and it fills your inventory with so many crap items that you'll constantly be managing your inventory without the extra space.

It won't collapse in the same way because, like you said, we have tons of indies and they have easy access to publishing now. Hopefully the AAA space collapses though. It looks like it's going that direction. They've forgotten why they exist.

Also, machiens capable of gaming are ubiquitous. Say the console market collapses because people recognize that Playstation and Xbox offer less entertainment per dollar than lighting $20 bills on fire. PCs, phones, tablets, maybe even smart televisions are everywhere. It's not like the early 80's when having a computer in your house is a new idea people were still figuring out.

It would be fun watching some of the bigger studios fart themselves to death though. I don't know if we need Ubisoft, EA or Activision anymore.

Unfortunately that may well make them double down on the F2P mobile market.

They're cheaper to make, and success tends to be tied directly to marketing efforts and exploitation.

OK, but did you pay $600 to have that cabinet in your house and still pumo endless quarters into it?

But just imagine how much more money they would have got out of you if you could also add a couple of extra quarters to change your character's outfit

I'll say it. He's definitely at least partially responsible for this situation that he's complaining about now.