Unfortunately very true rant on the gaming industry. Personally I’ve tried to get a job with Riot before. I’ve got my degree and years of experience with playing the game, but they don’t really want people passionate about the content, they want people with higher degrees and 8 years experience in a relevant field, which almost certainly equates to people who don’t know or care about the actual quality and soul of the game itself.
Absolutely agree about the gaming industry for the last several years. The worst part is people keep buying the games (sometimes in advance) and these companies have no incentive to improve their games or change their marketing strategy.
I feel like early access/pre-orders are the chief reason for the issues he's talking about, and nothing will change until consumers change their purchasing habits. If everyone continues to buy early access games based on hype and promises alone, publishers and developers will never get the message or have reason to improve their product (or really even deliver at all).
Hunt Showdown is my go to for a really unique multuplayer game. Has a similar base to Tarkov but way less inventory management and the Swamp setting in the late 1800's with old weapons is really fun.
Hunt wins for me. Tarkov is okay but in Hunt you use a style of weapons you don't really see in most games because of the time period making it feel more weighty. Also way less inventory management so you can jump right into games.
I was literally just thinking about how awful any kind of multiplayer game has been for the past few years, especially any pve experience. when I first started playing league, the events made me log in more and were exciting. the missions were easily farmable and you got rewards quickly. the star guardian event was one of my first league experiences and it was super fun. now they won't bring it back because it doesn't absolutely maximize profits :(
The winter map wasn't returned because staring at it for hours tends to hurt some people's eyes, and rather than have people bothered they just won't return it.
You can tell Riot and other companies don't care anymore. It's all microtransactions, battle passes, and the permanent removal of all the little features the OG players found fun; like the winter maps and different events/ maps for LoL.
AAA charges through the nose for the latest iteration of the same thing, hasn't innovated in ages. Actual indie games are niche and usually lack at least one major dimension of what people expect. Quality from them is all over the place, from better than AAA to literal garbage. There's a lot of middle ground "Indie" companies like Paradox, Riot, etc that use their smaller size to not have to care about reputation at all and just rip people off. Countless amazing indie games are sitting unknown because we're so bad at identifying them, which I think is the problem.
Unfortunately very true rant on the gaming industry. Personally I’ve tried to get a job with Riot before. I’ve got my degree and years of experience with playing the game, but they don’t really want people passionate about the content, they want people with higher degrees and 8 years experience in a relevant field, which almost certainly equates to people who don’t know or care about the actual quality and soul of the game itself.
Absolutely agree about the gaming industry for the last several years. The worst part is people keep buying the games (sometimes in advance) and these companies have no incentive to improve their games or change their marketing strategy.
I feel like early access/pre-orders are the chief reason for the issues he's talking about, and nothing will change until consumers change their purchasing habits. If everyone continues to buy early access games based on hype and promises alone, publishers and developers will never get the message or have reason to improve their product (or really even deliver at all).
Hunt Showdown is my go to for a really unique multuplayer game. Has a similar base to Tarkov but way less inventory management and the Swamp setting in the late 1800's with old weapons is really fun.
what u like more. hunt or tarkov ?
Hunt wins for me. Tarkov is okay but in Hunt you use a style of weapons you don't really see in most games because of the time period making it feel more weighty. Also way less inventory management so you can jump right into games.
I was literally just thinking about how awful any kind of multiplayer game has been for the past few years, especially any pve experience. when I first started playing league, the events made me log in more and were exciting. the missions were easily farmable and you got rewards quickly. the star guardian event was one of my first league experiences and it was super fun. now they won't bring it back because it doesn't absolutely maximize profits :(
The winter map wasn't returned because staring at it for hours tends to hurt some people's eyes, and rather than have people bothered they just won't return it.
You can tell Riot and other companies don't care anymore. It's all microtransactions, battle passes, and the permanent removal of all the little features the OG players found fun; like the winter maps and different events/ maps for LoL.
AAA charges through the nose for the latest iteration of the same thing, hasn't innovated in ages. Actual indie games are niche and usually lack at least one major dimension of what people expect. Quality from them is all over the place, from better than AAA to literal garbage. There's a lot of middle ground "Indie" companies like Paradox, Riot, etc that use their smaller size to not have to care about reputation at all and just rip people off.
Countless amazing indie games are sitting unknown because we're so bad at identifying them, which I think is the problem.
sidenote: why are there so many toxic tris players??