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Former PlayStation boss says games are "seeing a collapse in creativity" as publishers spend more time asking "what's your monetization scheme?" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

There's more to game development than that. Setting, art style, gameplay loop, interface...

The argument being made is that a "proven" mechanism for monetization is getting in the way of developing other attributes of gameplay, as the

  • get potential players aware of it

and

  • then have them pay

Steps are made the focus of design, and only known existing formulas for the above encourage the

  • invest some money

step.

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