With creative developers shutting everywhere, the future of games looks bleaker and more boring

UK indie outfit Roll7 is reportedly facing closure, along with Bethesda’s Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin – but if making award-running, profitable games doesn’t guarantee safety, what will?

[thorstein]

Don't worry, AI will save us all.

And if you didn't know, that's sarcasm!

[Goodguy01]

Idk. Great games have still been releasing. Mcsft is still no different than after the 360 era. PS, you just have to wait many years for. Nintendo is readying next gen and will definitely have many games. 3rd party and indies have been the highlight so far this year.

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

Yeah but the games coming out have been in development for many years so they're not affected by this issue.

This is more about the future.

I would say that indies will continue to put out interesting games at least. They need to avoid buyouts though or they're in danger of ending up like Roll7.

Part of the issue is that CEOs created projections based on the Covid years. Now that the line/Growth™ isn't going up, they're overcorrecting for stakeholders despite good profits. There's a certain mindlessness to it.

Hopefully with inflation down and more realistic projections, things will level out.

[shinoff2183]

The bad thing is these ceos should now those numbers are bad faith and should know better then to use those numbers.

[badkolo]

inflation down, really, where is this magic happening.

[rlow1]

Not downing what you’re saying, but the COVID excuse these companies keep pandering while making record profits. Is like the boy who cried wolf to many times. Nobody’s buying that line anymore.

[jwillj2k4]

Yea ok.. Microsoft is no different than the 360 era eh… what in tarnation have u been smoking to not only come to that conclusion but to consciously post it publicly.

[badkolo]

whats different, they havent had major hits since then. they where better then

[isarai]

Not really, what's happening is the sh!tty AAA industry is finally collapsing and things will revert back to mid-tier being the dominant tier like back in the day.

[smolinsk]

It's the bad part of the AAA industry that will collapse where quality doesn't matter only the sales numbers.
But agree. With this move we will see more quality coming back on smaller budgets and more tight development teams with love for the project.

[smolinsk]

It's a good thing all this stuff that are happening with layoffs and so on. We need the gaming industry to kind of restart so we can get the good quality games back we once had were it was all about the love of gaming and not just big time business. Now I think everyone Will move closer together and make more quality on smaller budgets.

[badkolo]

we will get even more woke garbage because of this

[Demetrius]

It's something how we have to go back to play ps2, ps360 era games to experience creative games again, there's still some good gems but they're scarce af nowadays weirdos and morons have infiltrated the gaming industry and laid waste causing devs to leave studios

[RNTody]

Stop, just goddamn stop the spin. The future is EXACTLY what we all said it would be from the time the worms at Microsoft bought Bethesda and then went on for Activision. This is NOT gaming's future.

This is Microsoft's hubris.

Tango Gameworks did NOT close because their game wasn't successful or failed to meet sales targets. It closed down because Microsoft needs to recoup costs and consolidate after splashing billions on publisher acquisitions when their entire gaming division is in decline and Game Pass is not sustainable.

Do the maths. This is not a tragic case of a game failing despite being good or selling well. Do not lump this into the equation of triple As with unsustainable budgets and sales expectations. This is Microsoft and no one else or nothing else can be blamed.

Tango Gameworks would have never closed it it wasn't for Microsoft.