Because they don’t want some of the money, or even enough of the money. They want all of the money, and think all you have to do is copy a successful game to get it.
Moreover, like Hollywood, the gaming industry is largely run by people who truly do not understand the thing they’re there to make. All of the C-levels still think it’s the early 2000s where you could shit out anything that looked like a popular game and make 20 billion dollars from it. They think their entire market is dumb kids who will mindlessly play whatever is put in front of them without regard to polish, story, or even playability.
Because sometimes that’s all it takes… See dayz vs pubg vs h1z1 (vs original fortnite to some extend).
Or valorant vs overwatch (and csgo to an extend).
Spins with just a little bit of change can be a massive success.
Because they don’t want some of the money, or even enough of the money. They want all of the money, and think all you have to do is copy a successful game to get it.
Moreover, like Hollywood, the gaming industry is largely run by people who truly do not understand the thing they’re there to make. All of the C-levels still think it’s the early 2000s where you could shit out anything that looked like a popular game and make 20 billion dollars from it. They think their entire market is dumb kids who will mindlessly play whatever is put in front of them without regard to polish, story, or even playability.
And chasing trends when it can take up 5 years or more to complete a project is utterly moronic.
And the market proves it’s true.
How in the hell is EA still not dead?
Many studios produce barely acceptable shit, yet people buy it in droves.
Sports games
WHY DO PEOPLE BUY THAT??!
The same reason there aren’t bear-proof trash cans. There’s a lot of overlap in intelligence levels between people and bears
Seems to be the basis for 90% of the economy at this point.
EA is a publisher that goes against that, bad publisher to use as an example
I don’t know what you mean.
Every sports game is barely an asset flip, sometimes even with wrong years.
Most recently Split Fiction would be an example of not trend chasing
Unraveled, Fe, the rest of Hazelight’s games, Knockout city
The Sims and the sports games also aren’t trend chasing
Sims and sports games are just rehashes.
Or re-releases.
And every AAA studio will slowly stop investing into new IPs.
Stephanie Sterling has been saying this for so many years, and it’s only getting worse. at least in the “”“AAA”“” space.
I’ve been a fan since The Escapist days
I started watching shortly after the escapist… thank god for her!
Because sometimes that’s all it takes… See dayz vs pubg vs h1z1 (vs original fortnite to some extend). Or valorant vs overwatch (and csgo to an extend).
Spins with just a little bit of change can be a massive success.
That “little bit of change” is what these greedy cunts don’t get, though. You need creativity for that too work.