>My fiance mentioned we haven't gone to see a movie in theaters in years and it would be fun to go.>I checked what was playing and:>2 tickets, 2 sodas, 1 popcorn.>$86 dollars.>Don't know if I'll ever go to a conventional movie theater again.How do you feel now that gaming has surpassed other forms of media? The gaming industry as a whole makes like 7x as much as the movie industry because it's just streaming now and movie theaters releases make the most money. Even though we clown on the The Game Awards, it gets better ratings than the Oscars I heard and just going out in general is getting expensive for the average person after COVID and we're in a recession, gaming unironically won. Obviously not AAA games but Indie gaming is booming low cost, lots of fun and mileage for your money. Gaming is a different medium but we've seen a glimpse of what can happen when streaming takes a hold with Google Stadia and Geforce NOW. TGA being too forced and Oscar-ifying, maybe none of this matters and as long as games remain affordable alas Indie at the moment, it'll remain strong.Thoughts? What do you consider too much money to pay for an indie game at the moment? $50?
>>735035902wrong board
>>735035902yeah thereabouts
>>735035902you want >>>/tv/
>>735036012I don't watch TV or movies since COVID anymore, I only play games or watch YouTube.
I can get a single ticket and a big-ass popcorn for like $25. What fucking country are you in that you're paying $90?>sodacut that shit out
>>735035902>Thoughts?It just means gaming is now where film used to be. And it's headed in the same direction.The future is $120 AAAA games or indie, no in between, with the whole market getting kneecapped and warped by social media stealing attention away.Oh, and gambling everywhere.
>>735036150>The future is $120 AAAA gamesI just think it would be hard to recoup that with massive investment VC money and only Rockstar may pull that off, so we'll head into a crash or resurgence but it doesn't feel like a crash yet.
netflix and chill killed movies a decade ago brokpop demon hunters
>>735035902Unfortunately you post zoomer anime, so fuck your opinion, whatever it is.
>>735035902A lot of our current industry is surrounded with suits trying their absolute damndest to milk all their customers. $70 AAA was just the start. Sony's leaked plans for 2027 were to hit $80 titles, which would be another industry wide price hike so soon after the last one. We've been drowning in battlepasses and microtransactions shops, both filled with content completely ripped from the base game and sold for absurd prices. The overall goal is to find the balance of how much they can realistically take out of a game and resell to the customer. It's been going that way since expansion packs became small DLCs. Multiplayer live service games have been compromised for a looong time now. One of the clearest indicators of all this is the never ending growth of teams and their pay. Yeah, there's a huge amount of layoffs, but it doesn't offset the huge amount of contract workers and Indian studios being introduced into the mix. Mostly all the money they "save" from these decisions always goes to corporate heads, and their investors that have everything to do with the death of gaming. They desperately want to keep raising the bar, because the short term profit for some reason outweighs long term in every company figurehead's minds. There's been this big movement from unionized voice actors to practically try and make themselves Hollywood celebrities. This ungodly desire to mocap and face scan them in these big shitty AAA projects that fail to reach their profit margins. Concord was a look into where the industry is heading. Big over funded ideas that lack any of the originality or nuance of the ideas that came before them. Instead everything is one big mixed pot of slop that lacks identity and feels like a bunch of freshly graduated college kids had a crash course in corporate friendly game development. They're desperately trying to make a Mahvel with tons of microtransactions and big TV show and movie tie-ins to make it all seem "official."
