Botchweed: "A 16 year old boy shot his 12 year old brother in the face earlier this week during an argument over a video game in Bellevue, WA."
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
GB: "We take a look at 15 amazing games that had the perfect length."
Pretty good list. Botany Manor would be the newest addition that encapsulates that title.
... gets into an argument with his little brother, this time over a videogame... and shoots the little tike in the head.
Yeah... let's see how the media is going to blame games for this one again.
If this would have happened because of a dispute over an oreo, or over some borrowed sneakers, would it have made headlines? Would people come out and call for a ban on oreos or sneakers?
Gun control and GAMES ARE DANGEROUS - double fucking whammy.
Does gang not ring any bells?
This kid is probably an animal
Gangsta
Shit is too unfair and flimsy if you asked me. The great, inspirational, encouraging side of the video games effect on people never gets reported. Ain't gonna hear "a group of young males decided to condition themselves, train hard and try to be world's champions of free-runnin after playing inFamous (or) Assassin's Creed (I know the latter one's main focus wasn't the parkour".
Somehow, the situation could be equalised.