Gaming

Ahh starting out with your parents money.
The greatest cheat code of the real world.

Business leadership is a club with a specific culture. To be in the club you have you drink the cool aid, so unfortunately most of them have the same mentality

I now have no respect for such people whatsoever, as they've demonstrated completely and thoroughly, even to the point where my dumb ass can notice, that the only thing that ever "qualified" them to "run a business" was having money.

It's always heartwarming when people wake up and realize it's capital ism and not merit ism

And you realize a lot of the books and media you've consumed that explicitly stated that weren't just making a comment on a goofy side effect of that system but the entire enchilada.

I agree completely. Over the past 5 years, I've noticed so many people have been able to fail upward with their businesses all because they have income that allows them to do so. It's incredibly frustrating knowing that with the right backing, most people could likely be as successful or better.

Both are valid considerations, but I find the large shift to time spent on social media apps a much more compelling argument.

Indie games are part of the industry too, so I don't think they'd be losses in accumulated industry revenue. The small and niche indies probably don't have much of an impact on the market as a whole.

I also think the big titles largely marketed towards the general people and casual gamer. And I have to assume that still works the same way. They buy the popular marketed title, or on their console digital store. They don't care as much about classics or indies [outside of the store's popular titles].

I don't entirely disagree with you but, does every medium not have to compete with a growing backlog of classics?

The top 10% of the population now accounts for over 50% of all economic activity. They have a level of income and reserved cash that is hard to comprehend and that just starts at $250,000 US salary and goes up from there.
Those people are spending so freely and so completely it's practically the entire economy and we are forced to compare ourselves to them.

The extra annoying part is that in a population of 350million people in the US, 10% is still about 35 million people. So there is more than enough of them to compare to and for companies to aim at.

The 90% of us are the working poor and it's not that others are stretching their money more they either just don't notice or care to look or have decided they have enough to spend freely without any consideration of whether they can afford it.

Resist the FOMO, don't buy a game just because it's brand new and they paid for enough marketing that everyone's talking about it. Go through your backlog, replay your favourites, find some cheap indies or second hand classic or free giveaways. Nobody can force you to pay through the nose for games and there's more choice than ever before!

The game prices I'm ok with. When I was a kid, video games cost $70 CAD, and that's almost $200 now. I'm perfectly OK with going back to buying fewer games. I have too many of them I shouldn't have bought in the first place.

I'm wildly upset with the console price, in no small part because Nintendo and other electronics manufacturers seem to be trying to smooth over the shock of Dorito Don's tariffs by increasing prices globally.

The Americans made their own bed. I'm not willing to lie in it with them.

"Infinite growth" is like still believing in the Tooth Fairy, yet these people basically run the world.

But but why are the studios who are focusing on making quality games doing okay?! - asks the profit focused studios