Richard Wells, the voice behind video gaming's iconic PEGI 18 rating, revealed his compensation for the task & views on AI.
"INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series connecting indie game fans all over the world, highlighted more than 150 games during its Saturday broadcast introducing world premieres, new trailers, and updates during its 10th-ever digital showcase." - INDIE Live Expo.
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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.
He should have entered into a royalty agreement instead of a done deal
An age rating has a voice actor?
You gotta be kidding me. Here we go with the VO actor worship again.
He said "Pegi 18". What do you expect for all that hard work? 1mil? Royalties? Wow. Problem is this: Dreamy stary-eyed gamers with aspirations to do "something" one day and dream about being something they don't know much about i.e. entertainment / VO etc. and have some really f-ed up and bizzare expectation that they should get Kardashian level pay outs, or retire as of they had won the lottery. Doing barely anything = HUGE bucks. Yes, this would be a dream job for someone who has sat on their ass their whole and this was the first paying gig, but that is fantasy and NOT how it works.
Making it big does not mean you make big bucks. You take a lot of jobs, are in demand, and you do very well. ^Again there is a really f-ed up VO fetish / fascination that's seems to have gone lamestream. No one give's a F about the voice actors's opinion is. No one cares what their salary woes are There are places for that and the first place is their f-ing agent. Gamers, stop defending outsourced contractors particularly decades after the fact.
i mean, he aaid one line.
200 dollars is alot ha.