Blamph
District 13
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Oh, honestly, not at all. I love money, which is why I aspire to own a large business one day. Businesses and business owners should want to earn money, as that is what keeps the whole process going. But when it comes to videogames, there needs to be a very strong passion and legitimate interest coming from the owners and developers who are backing/working on the project. If the sole goal of a video game company is to only make a lot of cash from their game, then odds are, it'll turn out to be a pretty shotty and half-assed game. This is what we are seeing as of the past few years when it comes to the mainstream games and what we are seeing with most of them. Sequels, sequels, and more sequels, but once in a while a true gem does come along that is usually created by a smaller gaming studio. Then that studio is eventually bought by one of the large corporations, and while it is true that the studio is still the same name, and it might even retain the same workers, their entire way of work is generally changed into what the larger corporation wants.I largely agree with your post, however I am curious:
Do you blame the top guys at microsoft for doing what they do? The primary goal of a business is to generate as much money as possible. As such, they're doing what's to be expected. Let's say you were in their shoes...maybe you wouldn't be as money hungry, but I'm sure money would have a large influence in your decisions.
Just curious, not saying anything you said is wrong, as I agree with a lot of it.
The best games are usually created by the guys who haven't had that taste of success yet, and crave it like no other. While I don't blame the big corporations at all for wanting to make as much money as possible (again, I'm a big fan of money), I have a lot of animosity towards the big video game corporations due to their blatant half-assed methods in the past half decade.
