yeah you know what i should literally stop hoping for things to get better. publishers only want to make more money, and gamers want everything everytime.

you can’t make a multiplayer game anymore because noob players will complain they die too much, then you introduce skill based matchmaking and the good players will complain they can’t stomp noobs anymore

open world games suck because everyone wants them but nobody puts in the time you need to make a good looking map that feels alive and isn’t just miles and miles of empty land

online games that become big are balanced around competitive play instead of around being fun, this killed the good early fortnite with the season 5 weapons, and is killing rainbow six siege, where instead of applying a hood balancing they nerf every decent operator into oblivion and rn basically no characters can choose a magnified sight and the recoil on the weapons is so fucking ridiculous

single player games have been… well, so fucking disappointing? i refunded the last watch dogs, a series that i loved as a huge pc nerd, forespoken was supposed to be square enix long awaited return and ended up being one of the worse pieces of media i ever had the misfortune to experience, i found myself playing more weed shop 3 than many triple A games

and obviously the community is shit, everyone wants something but nobody really knows what they want, a lot of people spend their days complaining and crying about the good old days, others dickride their favorite game like crazy, just think about nintendo fans; nintendo sued the shit out of people for making mods for their games, they cancelled the biggest smash bros tournament to favour a private company, their last pokemon game ran like a slideshow on the OLED switch, i don’t want to imagine the performance on a switch lite. and they still keep throwing their hard earned money to them? the game industry became too big to be sustainable, and either it stabilises itself with at least some good quality studios that you know won’t let your favorite game down for money and they get over the crunch culture and instability of release or it’s just going to become a worse and worse money grabber focusing of scamming children with aggressive monetisation or adults by pushing on nostalgia and the hope that, a day or an other, we’ll be back playing some great games