I’ll explain this as quick as I can. Basically the bourgeoisie that own the major studios are so obsessed with profit that they make blatantly unsustainable decisions like overmonetization and shipping unfinished games every few years. Now look what’s happening, the studios have no choice but to lay off employees to recoup the costs they inflicted upon themselves and the worst affected are the fired employees naturally.
This is honestly infuriating and insulting as someone who’s been a massive video game fan since 2019 because the franchises I took a liking to (especially Halo) had countless labor and talent (stretching decades in some cases) have been completely gone to waste publishing cookie cutter generic dogshit games for the c suite’s next payday.
Indies are no better. They also suffer from the problem of shipping unfinished games but unlike their AAA counterparts, they suffer from genuine lack of time and resources to deliver games in a timely manner. So the whole “go indie” is basically lesser evil.
Come to think of it Capitalism actually enables and rewards such incompetence as long as profits are high.
Omg yes. Also, pointless sequels all the time along with updates which ruins the series or game, FnaF being prime example I can think of having at least like 20 games along with other material when the series should have ended in 2016 at SL, but no, they decided to make it like your average movie which was amazing during first few sequels, but then series got destroyed with 10 another sequels no one asked for. Not to mention what they did with ARK also.
I literally hate this so much, why can’t they simply leave the good series alone, same with movies?
4 5 and Infinite basically sealed the fate of Halo. Should’ve ended at Reach or at least got Halo 4 release at later dates.