r/gaming • u/CiabattaKatsuie Console • Oct 01 '24

The games industry is undergoing a 'generational change,' says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney: 'A lot of games are released with high budgets, and they're not selling'

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-games-industry-is-undergoing-a-generational-change-says-epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-a-lot-of-games-are-released-with-high-budgets-and-theyre-not-selling/

Tim Sweeney apparently thinks big budget games fail because... They aren't social enough? I personally feel that this is BS, but what do you guys think? Is there a trend to support his comments?

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u/Spire_Citron Oct 02 '24

Because all that money isn't going towards making the best games they can make, plain and simple. They're just trying to scientifically concoct the most efficient money extraction machines, and that isn't very fun.

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u/Capt_Skyhawk Oct 02 '24

This is the correct analysis. Games used to be made out of passion of playing them and now they’re mostly about profit. That’s why indie games are the ones with the overwhelmingly positive reviews. Triple A 50Gb monsters are pretty but my favorite games are from no name devs.

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u/DPlusShoeMaker Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24

Baldurs Gate 3. That’s all that needs to be said.

When other studios and Devs were complaining that BG3 set the bar too high, it was truly a facepalm moment.

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u/VPN__FTW Oct 02 '24

Because BG3 should be the standard for AAA games and these company's DO NOT want that. They want to shit out the same generic ass game year after year and have gamers stumbling over themselves to buy it, w/ all the premium skins and shit, of course.

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u/Brigid-Tenenbaum Oct 02 '24

Exactly, and fuck that! There is indeed a generational change - It being that consumers aren’t willing to put up with their shit anymore.

You can’t release, what is essentially the same product, annually and pack it full of skins and micro-transactions forever. People will, and have, find better alternatives.

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u/Greenhouse95 Oct 02 '24

You can’t release, what is essentially the same product, annually and pack it full of skins and micro-transactions forever. People will, and have, find better alternatives.

That's the thing. That sometimes there are no alternatives. For example "FIFA"(or Madden or NBA) doesn't have a good nor better alternative, so they release the same game every year and keep having massive profits. So why would they stop doing it?

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u/FewAdvertising9647 Oct 02 '24

in that situation, there are alternatives, but those players value the roster more than the game itself. that's more of a self inflicted wound. For example with the NFL, the alternative is actually playing a modded version of 2k5, as historically speaking, 2k5 was the most popular NFL game at a gameplay standpoint.