EDMIX
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What the fuck is this bullshit? Fuck you and stop making shitty games.
Even if you don't have the budget or employee numbers, you can still create good written characters, and a story to go along with it. Yet this seems an impossibility these days. Even AAA devs bombing left and right.
The talent in the industry these days is definitely lacking.
I don't think its enough to say "stop making shitty games" as if THAT is what those teams want to make or something. It simply can be that easy as it sound almost naïve to the issue, its much more complex and had so many moving parts, that i don't think any of us can correct those teams issues with a pep talk and be like "don't make shitty, make good. oh thank god, now we will be successful" lol
Look at Cyberpunk 2077. I can't say talent is lacking based on how bad that game launched, when it might not be the fault of the team, but fault of the publisher. As in, you can have lots of talented developers, but you can't just be like "ok now make an open world with all of these elements, oh yea we are not upping the staff, good luck" and then fucking blame the team as if them being untalented is why it doesn't have a train system or Ai or something, that might be based on the publisher not hiring enough for a project of that scale and magnitude.
You can have a talented team understaffed cause a publisher and the game launch badly.
You can have a talented team FULLY staffed properly and the game launch great.
You can have a team with no talent, understaffed, publisher smokes crack and have a game launch badly.
You can have a team with no talent, publisher staffs them fully, funds them properly and still have a game fail.
I just don't know if its as simple as no talent. How do we know those talented people are in a place that allows them to shine? Really think about this as I think people throw developers under the bus for a lot of shit and some times it may not be the fault of the team themselves.
Any of those combinations could be happening.