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Full headline, because of course all of this wasn't going to fit up there: "'I think this industry is finished': not quite Disco Elysium spin-off studio Summer Eternal on the chances of things getting better for game devs"
I think it is very close to "finished" as it exists right now, at least. The current business models and trends of the huge (and too many of the "not so huge") video game companies are simply not sustainable, both from a developer standpoint and from a consumer standpoint (and also from a stuffed suit, brainless, don't-actually-play-video-games-themselves-at-all-and-thus-really-don't-have-a-fucking-clue executive standpoint, but they're the vast, vast majority of the problem in the first place, so to hell with them, they deserve to be washed away when the dam finally breaks). It will fail, sooner or later (hopefully sooner than later). The modern video game industry needs a very hard reset. Or, you know, it needs that crash for which I've been calling and hoping, for at least the better part of a decade now.
I think it is very close to "finished" as it exists right now, at least. The current business models and trends of the huge (and too many of the "not so huge") video game companies are simply not sustainable, both from a developer standpoint and from a consumer standpoint (and also from a stuffed suit, brainless, don't-actually-play-video-games-themselves-at-all-and-thus-really-don't-have-a-fucking-clue executive standpoint, but they're the vast, vast majority of the problem in the first place, so to hell with them, they deserve to be washed away when the dam finally breaks). It will fail, sooner or later (hopefully sooner than later). The modern video game industry needs a very hard reset. Or, you know, it needs that crash for which I've been calling and hoping, for at least the better part of a decade now.
