Because they aren't made by no life nerds anymore

Toot toot

Because they're dragged down by incompetent pajeets

>>738707767
And women

>>738707670
Too many cooks in the kitchen, while said cooks actually don't give a shit about what they're making.

>>738707670
Games become increasingly more massive and complex which takes more time to make. There's also just general incompetence and poor manage as another factor, like with the legendary example of Duke Nukem Forever. I imagine games like the next GTA are more of the former, where developers have such ridiculous ambitions for the game that just make development monstrous. And other games like the next Elder Scrolls being more the latter.

>>738707670
Because when devs prioritize fast releases (pokemon) gamers shit and piss their pants and blame "laziness"

>>738707670
There is so much that games are capable of achieving now more than 20 years ago that development can be very complicated.

>>738708095
shrimple as that
there's only so much you can "parallelize" even in a well-established production pipeline (such as asscreed mill), so the ever-increasing scope leads to ever-increasing bloat

>>738708316
Modern engines literally do all the hard stuff for you. Then again that's why no 9ne knows how to code anymore

>>738707670
They have to go through extensive testing to make sure they're as lame and gay as possible.

>>738707670
Why work to release a full game when you can shit out some low effort "early access game" and trickle out updates before moving onto the next thing. The best part is that early access tag shields you from all criticism because no matter the game you'll have a hoard of people come out of the woodwork to defend your pile of shit because "it's early access, let them cook".

>>738708095
Thank you.

>>738707670
much like your axe wound
time dilation

According to people at Square Enix, games have become basically as complicated or more so than movies, requiring in addition to the actual dev time, a lengthy pre production phase to plan and map things out as best as they can, since changing things drastically partway through will be a massive pain in the ass in modern games. They also essentially spell out that the complexity is so extreme that it can't be reduced even by just throwing more and more people at a project.

>>738708425
you should apply for a job anon, im sure it would go a lot quicker with an expert on the subject

>>738708661
Just use AI lmao and cut half the work down.

>>738707670

They're made by incompetent Indians using UE5.

>>738708721
AI triggers autistic meltdowns in Redditors. Look how they reacted to E33 using the most basic AI in their game or NTE having an AI billboard in the game that literally nobody but them would have noticed.

>>738707670
Covid killed a lot of people and they are hiding it.

>>738707670
Victory has defeated them. I.E. they were too successful, and attracted the eye of the evil financial class who corrupt and destroy all.

>>738708720
NEVER!

>>738707670
>Waaaaa
>Why do I have to wait 2-3 years for a small team to make a good game
>They even let me play it for the whole 2-3 years
>And give it 5-10 years if free support
Fuck off retard.

>>738709670
>release EA game
>everyone plays
>dev takes forever
>everyone is burned out and has moved on by the time the game actually comes out

You shouldn't be able to slap the EA tag on your game unless 1.0 is within 6 months otherwise you get shit that sits in EA for 5+ years and nothing ever gets done

>>738707670
>Design by committee and approval boards means that every decision needs endless meetings and also wastes a large percentage of work on redundant designs just so that they can feel like they're doing something. Sometimes designs may be designed exclusively for the purpose of rejection or adjusting the approval board's criteria for other designs.
>Lot of narcissistic managers and so on means that they will recruit parts of the team to work on stupid pet projects or sideline the people who know what they are doing, because that would undermine their cloutfarming
>Teams are so large and communication is so bad that they end up waiting for work to be done, do redundant work, break existing work or overwrite existing work
>Development tools are becoming increasingly bloated and non-performant because "more features means it's slower, don't worry about optimization", what would have loaded in seconds now loads in a minute
>Publishers are so out-of-touch now that they can't figure out whether to kill a dead project or invest time into pushing it out
>Dead projects get passed like hot potatoes through acquisitions and mergers, because it's not their problem
You don't need more than 20-60 people and 3-4 years to make a game as long as there's no consultants and office politics, just figure out whether the game is dead in the water before a year is over.
>>738708721
AI doesn't produce work or workflows that can be used in placeholder or final products. Rapid prototype that doesn't need to scale, won't see critical light of day and might get discarded completely? Yeah maybe. Getting suggestions for things to start brainstorming with? Also maybe. Final product? No.
It's not even like it's going to necessarily cut costs, companies are just invested in pushing the meme that automation will be cheaper than hiring real people because it puts those real people into a worse bargaining position.

>>738708752
holy bloat. I just expected drake to jump and shoot.

>>738707670
Wtf are you on about? It was always common for a game to get announced and take 2-6 years to come out

>>738707767
>>738707814
these

>>738711086
>6? are you 16yo?

>>738711086
Always? You Gen Alpha or something?

>>738708752
>one guy says GAME SUX
>game almost cancelled
>entire world tells the company GAME SUX
>another 1billion dollars for development of Concord 5
Why
Uncharted is shit BTW, 4 too

basically 0.8 AI = 1 people.
So yeah, if the situation is complex enough adding more people doesn't solve it, throwing more AI won't either. You just have 18 AI+2 people instead of the 18 peoples.
In the future, a new profession will be the AI CEO. As a neo-CO, your job is to manage the 20 AIs. I mean 18 AI and 2 people punching the AIs when they do something wrong. These AIs will be coordinating together to make up for the peoples.

>>738709670
>100+
>small
retard

Someone who played GTA5 in high school will be 30 years old when GTA6 comes out.

>>738707670
It's a wakeup call that there are hobbies out there outside of gaming.
Or you know, don't be a slave to AAA releases.

>>738707670
Blame graphicsfaggots

>>738707670
Modern game dev is an arms race for the largest world, best cinematics or the live service sloppa with the most players
All of that shit takes ludicrously inefficient dev time, except for live service as they're often never completed in a sense that dev is more iterative for them. Brand new games that aren't remakes are going to take longer and longer to release, unless generative AI take over

>>738707670
devs work slower to stay employed longer, as soon as any game is out 90% are fired