Frank Zappa ideas; paraphrased by me.

In the 1960's the music execs like Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and had no idea what the kids wanted. They just threw money at the problem and gave contracts to anyone. The result was a vast variety, everything from Sha-Na-Na to the Mamas and the Papas to Iron Butterfly. When the next generation of bosses got hired, they looked at the one consistent moneymaker; Motown Records. Everyone at Motown had a similar look and singing style...

It started roughly around the ps3/360 era, when corporate devs began prioritizing turning their games into skinner boxes that were designed to motivate players to keep playing, so they would be more likely to engage in microtransactions, see more ads, or continue paying subscriptions. Of course gacha garbage is a fuller expression of this kind of manipulation now days.

Still plenty of great games out there, and in some cases we have a real renaissance.

I think people don’t realize that current CEO’s are still old. Many of them in their 50s. I don’t think those are millennials.

Wait, gaming is shit now and it was great in the past?

I agree about the speed of progress, but someone is forgetting all the movie games on the ps2 (looking at you cat woman).

Also, I’m old enough to remember the angry video game nerd reviewing bad NES games, holy shit, you have no idea how bad it can get.

get absolutely abused by employers squeezing every penny they can while blocking union efforts

He forgot that part

More of a late stage capitalism issue than a millennial issue

the entire us went to shit, what's your point

The people who break there bakes making the games. Are the ones who enjoyed them as kids. It’s the executives and managers who run the decisions. Who have never played games before.

Who is the main target audience downloading and paying for these games?

I certainly wanted to be a gameDev, and had shit ideas. It is my fault.

Mostly or straight became indie devs or got they asses fired on AAA studios, let's be honest indie and double A studios are what still keep this hobbie alive today

Ape Escape was such a good game. Shame that Sony has abandoned it

Excuse me, but a lot of passion han be found on the indie market.

Serious, genuine question:

Has a team of, or single Zoomer game dev(s) ... made... any... game?

I am not gonna pretend that I somehow know all games and all game dev teams by age, but uh...

Yeah, are there any notable games made by a team that is majority composed of people born after '96 ish?

Like... I am a millenial, and I am well aware of the ludicrous greed and mismanagement of AAA studios, how even most AA studios end up getting fucked by some kind of IP rights/funding issue, if they live long enough... I'm still pissed that EA killed Maxis... and I am also well aware of many games with primarily millenial dev teams... very often devolve into, or revolve around 'millenial speak' / 'millenial writing' ...

Most of us millenials, outside of the tiny number of mod teams that actually stuck together long enough to form a game studio, or just outright form an indie dev studio... yeah most of us just jumped into the megacorp game dev meat grinder and then acted both entitled and surprised to find out that 'corporation bad, actually.'..

But I seriously cannot think of a mainly zoomer game dev team that's made anything other than pretty much shitty asset flips and/or outright scams, enternal alpha/early access type bullshit.... or maybe mobile, gacha type games?

I would love to be informed that I am an idiot and there are some really good zoomer made games, but I am ignorant of their existence.

Hell, even a seriously good mod by zoomers would count, I know I was modding many games before I even got out of highschool.

Gen X is running those companies, they're the ones to blame for this shit.