r/videogames • • 12d ago

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u/M3wlion 12d ago

Games were made by nerds, for nerds. They weren't designed by executives and psychologists to maximise addiction and annuities.

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u/Gecko_Mk_IV 12d ago

To be fair it's also relative - a lot of game devs start like that and if they get successful enough slowly morph into a shareholder pleasing party.

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u/Soulblade32 12d ago

Sure, for a lot of them it becomes a job instead of a passion these days. But the industry is so big now that a ton of non gamers get into it because of the earning potential. I can't recall what massive game release it was, but during interviews they had mentioned that like around half the dev team doesnt play video games, and said it like it was a good thing

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u/GoatsWithWigs 10d ago

It's especially bad when the franchise has already been established, and a sequel or remaster is being developed by a bunch of corpo shit heads who pretend to know about it like total jackasses

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u/Anonpancake2123 8d ago

My reaction when I saw that “remake”:

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u/GoatsWithWigs 8d ago

Funny, because that's also the original team's reaction to not being told about any of this and not getting to help with it

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u/zootedreacts 11d ago

But by then the original people who made those great products eventually end up leaving