The Gaming Slope

[owsf2000]

You know, I tried to make a bit of a sarcastic comment about how with the way gamers like to place their mouths on the corporate sewage pipe and inhale, we still won't be at the bottom of this degrading quality slope in the game industry even when gamers are expected to pony up $300 bucks in advance in return for a slip of paper reading "IOU 1 game".

Then I was reminded of Kickstarter.

So the real question is when is this going to hit mainstream AAA titles.

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[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Does Shenmue III (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3) count as a mainstream AAA title these days? I don't have room to talk, in that case, because I backed the fuck out of that one, sure. I would also consider Bloodstained (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night) and Night Cry (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playism/project-scissors-nightcry) and such to be the equivalent of AAA titles (both of which I backed, as well). They're all being made by former AAA-developers, who aren't AAA-developers anymore if only because the AAA-companies that they used to work for are utterly retarded these days.

Granted, EA and Ubisoft and Capcom and Square Enix and such themselves haven't jumped on the Kickstarter bandwagon yet, at least as far as I know. (If only because they're too busy sullying the once good reputation of the Humble Bundle, I guess.) I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

So... yeah.

That said, of the (very) few Kickstarter games that I've backed which have so far actually come to fruition, I haven't yet been disappointed in them, as far as lack of quality concerns or as far as being laden with unnecessary, unwanted bullshit is concerned. But then, also, as I said, only very few of the games I've backed have actually been released as of yet, so there is that to consider, too (this includes the three I mentioned above).