What is the fastest way to fail in the gaming industry?

[Animusisters]

Making bad products.

[Merlin]

I think it defeats the purpose to allow us to choose multiple things if you want to know the #1 reason. Nice meme though.

[Sorain]

At the end of the day, I think the only one that qualifies is not learning from your mistakes.

Any first time game from a studio can fail for any number of reasons. But if you want consistently fatal actions/decisions then this is it. How many other options on that poll fall under the 'failure to learn from mistakes' tag I ask you?

[TheDorkyDane]

Be an asshole.

I am pretty serious, I feel like.... As long as people are kind, sincere, open, listen and so forth. Genuinely listen, people are willing to forgive. People are willing to say. "Yeah it was a mistake, but you are obviously trying and listening, it's okay. We'll try again."

How-ever, people whom are asshole with asshole attitudes, why would we give them second chances? There's no reason.

Yeah, it's that simple. If you are legit nice and sincerely, people will be nice in return. If you are an asshole... well... why should we be nice?

[Saskia]

✅ Having your successful game studio bought out by a AAA publisher and then shut down 6 months later

[Hyperweasle]

I marked all the options, because every terrible game company now, seems to committed all those sins and more.

[nintles]

with Bethesda, the weren't pushing political opinions with Fallout at all, it was down to how poorly they treat their customers with the game. then again, Wolfenstein was where all the political opinions surfaced. honestly, it comes down to the games. even though forced politics prevents people from being interested in your game, if your game is broken then you lose the people who actually paid for it.

[Erebus]

Probably the fastest way is to hire a diversity and inclusion consultant then listen to them. Another two that are just as bad is put a progressive in charge of hiring or PR.

[k4far]

Some company told me once to buy the game AGAIN because English language is region locked and will not be available.

[xadu]

Have a narcissist in command, incapable of conceive other people viewpoints and wills.

Narcissists tend to raise very fast on corporations, because they know how to manipulate, but they can't empathize with other people, so they are bound to fail when the company needs to understand and empathize with his clients.

[DeathBySNUSNUU]

Making bad products.

There have been companies that have gone bankrupt but still made good games. Although making bad games doesn't help lol.

[Ryan]

Just making an objectively bad game, and of course making enemies out of your customers. That's essentially biting the hand that's feeding you. Not wise at all.

[Merlin]

I took more time to think what has ruined a game I love. Halo. What ruined Halo? having totally different people make the game who didn't know that Master Chief was the protagonist in Halo 5 just about did it. Of course even if it did go back to Bungie most of the big names behind the first 5 games were fired or quit. So its about people at the end of the day.

[Sirgeorge]

What is the fastest way to fail in the gaming industry? Don't try in the first place.

[MadMummy76]

There is no fastest way, many factors contribute, and every franchise suffers from more than one of the listed things. It all depends on the level though, if strong enough any one of these could kill a game in theory.

For example being subscription based is a complete deal breaker to me.

Appealing to wider audiences usually means alienating the core fans who made the franchise great in the first place. It's good for a quick money grab, but bad for the long term survival of it. In a sense mobile is a symptom of trying to appeal to a wider audience. AAA companies are vapid that they don't get a pie from mobile gaming. As AAA devs they feel entitled to get a piece of that, so we get brilliant games like C&C rivals, diablo immortal and alien blackout.

And the problem is not releasing mobile cashgrabs, it's that they're doing that instead of AAA games, not besides. For example fallout shelter was a complete garbage microtransacion fest, but I didn't care because they put out F4 soon after.