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Why are todays pc and mobile games so bad?
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this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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Because of investors needing a quick "win" with a game studio acquisition, and because gamers buy the slop that someone managed to shit out while trying to appease those investors.
The investors cash out and are emboldened to go burn some other game studio into the ground again. If the studio hasn't imploded badly enough yet, the investors demand another game with whatever IP "worked" last time, but at a lesser budget with more aggressive deadlines, so the next result that is shit out is worse, but players still buy it.
The cycle continues endlessly, it's the same pattern in every industry because it's all the same tiny group of investors with "diversified portfolios" ruining everything in the name of profit.
Not just investors. Capitalists in general. The stock market just makes it much easier for capitalists to pretend that profit at any expense is wise.
Wow this is deep and makes sense!