Since unsustainable corporate growth in the games industry is on ppls minds due to the Jim Sterling video there's a thought I thought I'd share that I've been kicking around in my head for a while
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Obviously late capitalism is all about constant growth and shareholders fucking off at the first sign of trouble but I think games are due for a huge crash for one big reason: you can't get everybody in the world playing games the same way you can get everyone to see a movie
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Games are a big time sink. Even at the height of WoW or CoD or now Fortnite, I feel like there's a lower limit on how many ppl you can pull in to something that takes hours to play?
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Games are largely a hobby? Maybe that does them a disservice. Obviously A Night In The Woods isn't a hobby, but you know what I mean. It's involving.
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Books are involving. They take a lot of time. If you sold 7 million copies of a book, that's a staggering success. 7 million copies of a game coming out of the AAA industry is a failure??
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Obviously a book is cheaper to make, but my point is about sustainability. Games don't have to be this big insular thing. The more people the merrier, but I feel like by design they can't reach the guards of gold that gigantic film franchises like the MCU rake in
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This helps explain why there was such an explosion in popularity of mobile games over the past decade. Mobile games are that easy access point for the average consumer. Mobile is also largely the reason the game industry makes 3 times more than the music and films do...combined.
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