In the before times of home computing, anyone and their mother could make and try to sell video games, floppy disks and cassettes were plentiful. The barrier to entry was essentially non-existent. You could get fully fledged games in magazines. (In fact some magazines included the actual programme for you to type out yourself)
But it turns out when publishers just shovel slop onto the market it drowns out good quality Indy stuff and even some of the high production value games. This feels quite similar to before the great video game crash.
There’s a reason Nintendo started putting their “Nintendo seal of quality” on their games. To try and reassure buyers that they didn’t just shovel slop people mailed in. At one point you even had to send them a video tape with evidence the game could even be completed. Interestingly that seal is still found on their games.
We’ve almost returned to that state of low barrier to entry. Digital distribution means there is no real difficulty in physically producing and distributing the game. AI makes it so that anyone’s half baked idea can be shoved on Steam.
Don’t get me wrong there are many excellent games that would have struggled to make a name for themselves using steams old green light system.
The Nintendo Seal was also them raising the barrier to entry. Many people had an NES/Famicom, not a lot of people had dev kits or Family Basics+Famicom Disk Systems.
It also reminds me of the nineties a bit, which was another time of rampant shovelware because of how cheap it was to produce a CD.
There were so many crappy discount games in the mid to late nineties that Wal Mart was selling them for under $5 at one point and you could get them in cereal boxes.
Oh, it’s gonna be so much worse than the eighties bubble. AI has been forced into every single facet of our lives thanks to technofascist shillionaires snowballing their money back and forth. So it’s not just gonna be a video game crash, or a dot-com crash, or a housing market crash. Everything is going to crash, and it’s gonna crash so fucking hard. And that’s not including the orange fuckwit’s ongoing war of choice with Iran keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed.
Get your canned/non-perishable food stock in order, make sure your water and heating is up to date, have an exit plan if necessary, cause shit is going to get rough.
People of the world. Hear my wisdom as an “old”
In the before times of home computing, anyone and their mother could make and try to sell video games, floppy disks and cassettes were plentiful. The barrier to entry was essentially non-existent. You could get fully fledged games in magazines. (In fact some magazines included the actual programme for you to type out yourself)
But it turns out when publishers just shovel slop onto the market it drowns out good quality Indy stuff and even some of the high production value games. This feels quite similar to before the great video game crash.
There’s a reason Nintendo started putting their “Nintendo seal of quality” on their games. To try and reassure buyers that they didn’t just shovel slop people mailed in. At one point you even had to send them a video tape with evidence the game could even be completed. Interestingly that seal is still found on their games.
We’ve almost returned to that state of low barrier to entry. Digital distribution means there is no real difficulty in physically producing and distributing the game. AI makes it so that anyone’s half baked idea can be shoved on Steam.
Don’t get me wrong there are many excellent games that would have struggled to make a name for themselves using steams old green light system.
The Nintendo Seal was also them raising the barrier to entry. Many people had an NES/Famicom, not a lot of people had dev kits or Family Basics+Famicom Disk Systems.
It also reminds me of the nineties a bit, which was another time of rampant shovelware because of how cheap it was to produce a CD.
There were so many crappy discount games in the mid to late nineties that Wal Mart was selling them for under $5 at one point and you could get them in cereal boxes.
Exactly ! Back to eighties bubble
Oh, it’s gonna be so much worse than the eighties bubble. AI has been forced into every single facet of our lives thanks to technofascist shillionaires snowballing their money back and forth. So it’s not just gonna be a video game crash, or a dot-com crash, or a housing market crash. Everything is going to crash, and it’s gonna crash so fucking hard. And that’s not including the orange fuckwit’s ongoing war of choice with Iran keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed.
Get your canned/non-perishable food stock in order, make sure your water and heating is up to date, have an exit plan if necessary, cause shit is going to get rough.