The end of gaming?

[Skyturtle]

This year has been pretty dry. All of the negative new is good for consumers cause it means companies will learn and know that can't make a bad game. There is so flak to games that is undiserved but overall it's just been a bad year.

[Phabe Jewell]

Guys, Remember back in the day where digital copies of games were 10$ cheaper than the physical versions? I miss those days.

[TakahiroSama]

Bad news usually gets more attention in just about all forms of media. I wouldn't go so far as saying there will be a game video crash any time soon. Gaming is becoming more and more mainstream. Now a lot of it is due to mobile gaming and casual gamers playing on their phones but still, the industry is rising on all fronts be it pc/consoles or mobile. People are also being more aware of AAA companies' practices and holding them responsible for those decisions and "voting with their wallets", which is a good thing. This also translates on game reviews, in which games are getting more flak for predatory practices like microtransactions and things of the sort. I think ultimately it will make companies review those decisions in future games (as an example Capcom just went back on their decision of displaying ads on street fighter V ingame) but not lead to any crash.

[Neverused]

There's a channel called Laymen(Layman?) gaming, and they have made videos where they actively thank all of the crappy devs for their view count and for bringing subscribers to their channel. 2018 is the year that corporations ate a lot of humble pie, if there wasn't so much negative press, then they would have pressed forward with starwars slotmachine 2. There is little doubt Bethesda is feeling a huge burn from their "game", Battlefield V ate the "historically accurate, but as we would have liked history to be" bullet.

I love monster hunter world, I saw so many positive comments and posts for God of war and Spiderman, I got sick of seeing them. Everyone knows that when they buy Cyberpunk they are going to get a full gaming experience. At the same time EA is dropping a free demo for anthem because they know they torched any remaining good will toward them, they need to get it back and they need that game to sell well.

While most of the attention has been negative, the outcome has been a message from the gaming community that these practices aren't ok and we as a community aren't going to accept them.