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As a complete outsider looking at all of this from an abstract distance, I find it fascinating. However, as a player of video games, I know, for a fact, that none of this will be good for the video game industry in the long run, overall. I have at least three decades of observation of the video game industry to show me that this will be the case. During that time, I observed that for roughly 99.999% of all smaller companies that got absorbed (either Borg-like or Katamari-like, it doesn't matter) by larger companies, they either A) ceased to exist entirely within at most a decade, or B) very quickly transitioned into being just yet another banal zombie-arm of the undead behemoth into which they had been absorbed, even if they nominally kept their identity. As for their IPs, they either A) ceased being made at all or B) were so horrendously warped into something so utterly inferior to what they used to be (including being stuffed full of bullshit), either by (whatever was left of) the original small company or by whatever not-them team the larger company slapped into existence to try to keep the IP alive, for whatever reason, that they may as well have ceased being made at all. This is invariably, inevitably the case, all the time, every time. I cannot at this moment think of a single case of a smaller company being bought up by a bigger company after which said smaller company's quality of output improved in any measurable way, compared to what they had been doing before.
As a complete outsider looking at all of this from an abstract distance, I find it fascinating. However, as a player of video games, I know, for a fact, that none of this will be good for the video game industry in the long run, overall. I have at least three decades of observation of the video game industry to show me that this will be the case. During that time, I observed that for roughly 99.999% of all smaller companies that got absorbed (either Borg-like or Katamari-like, it doesn't matter) by larger companies, they either A) ceased to exist entirely within at most a decade, or B) very quickly transitioned into being just yet another banal zombie-arm of the undead behemoth into which they had been absorbed, even if they nominally kept their identity. As for their IPs, they either A) ceased being made at all or B) were so horrendously warped into something so utterly inferior to what they used to be (including being stuffed full of bullshit), either by (whatever was left of) the original small company or by whatever not-them team the larger company slapped into existence to try to keep the IP alive, for whatever reason, that they may as well have ceased being made at all. This is invariably, inevitably the case, all the time, every time. I cannot at this moment think of a single case of a smaller company being bought up by a bigger company after which said smaller company's quality of output improved in any measurable way, compared to what they had been doing before.
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Date: 2022-02-04 05:33 pm (UTC)From:That's assuming they get bought out by a publisher NOT on my boycott list mind you. If Bungie had been bought by Ubisoft for instance - instant boycott. Same with EA. Sony I haven't completely boycotted, although I'll never buy another music cd from their music division after the whole root kit BS.
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Date: 2022-02-07 06:27 am (UTC)From: