giovedì 18 settembre 2014

THE VIDEOGAMES INDUSTRY NEED TO CRASH AGAIN FOR REVIVE ?

In the 1983 the whole Videogames Industry  totally collapsed , the reasons were a lot , for example too much Consoles was been released in the same lapse of time , but also because the competition with personal computer was so hight , however , the industry collapsed especially because too many
low level videogames was been released , because this , all the people started to loss interest in play games and the market crashed ,  then , after three years of dark where there was been a very little market of videogames , the industry started to rise again because after every recession , after every crisis , a big raise is followed , so this led us in the awesome era of  the  Nintendo Entairtment System  (1985) ,   Super Nintendo  (1990) ,  and the amazing era of  Playstation  ( 1994 ) and Nintendo 64  ( 1996 ).
Why this happened ?  Why there was been a crash and why the whole industry reborned stronger then ever after that ?
Well, in the early 80's , most of the softwarehouses started to be greedy  and not cared anymore about gamers , in order to earn as much money possible in the faster time possible , them started to rush the development of a game , putting on the market  a ton of garbage , on the other hands the first goal of a softwarehouse is earn money rather then  make a good game , so , why a softwarehouse should make efforts for develop a good game when the people buy every sort of rubbish ?
This method worked for awhile , but when the people suddenly stopped to buy videogames because them realized that were all crap , the managers of the videogame industry learned the lesson , very badly , and this was what them deserved , because for years had mocked and exploited the customers.
At this point, the industry had to regain the trust of the videogamers and this is why after that period of time, the quality of the videogames increased untill reach the pinnacle that we saw in the 90's era.
What the videogamers did , was send a clear message , this message was   " we are tired about all these bullshit , we want good quality videogames " , and worked , you can bet about it ,  lol .
Now , more of 30 years passed , it's a long time , some softwarehouses of that period are still around and still develop game , the videogame industry learned a hard lesson in the 1983 , but often the troubles come from the fact that we forget about the mistakes of the past , and I wonder if the videogame industry nowadays, forgot what happened in the 1983 and why .
Right now strongly I believe that we are close to one other crash , because nowadays we have clear signs that the industry started again to kidding us , it started again to care only about get money , these are the reasons because I think what happened 30 years ago , could happen again very soon :


DLC 

This is the worst , the DOWNLOADABLE CONTENTS  are totally destroyed the videogames , in the past when you bought a game , it was complete , but now very often you buy incomplete games at full price , and only after a number of  DLC  and PATCH  you could say to have a whole game , but you don't realize to have spent  90 euros for a whole game , this is very bad , is what ruin the market.
After all , expansions are not so bad , was been a good invention , just the way that are used on the games today is crazy , totally devoted to exploit the customers , expansions should not be planned , a software house must release a wholoe game like was used to do in the past , after this we could talking about release some expansions , this is the right way that DLC must be used , instead I see that most of the expansions are not expansions , rather a part of the game not added.

MICROTRANSACTIONS

This is the last crazy way to extort money from videogamers , very sad , microtransactions are payments that you do in game with real money , so , if you wanna acquire a new power for get rid of that terrible boss , you have to pay , usually it's a way to transform a free to play in a  pay to win.


JUST A MATTER OF MARKETING

In the past , first the software houses made a effort in developt a good game , then and only then them thought about publicity , right now is the converse , looking like most of the budget go in publicity ,
the last case is  DESTINY ,  it's just a enough good game touted like a revolutionary game , actually the game is enough poor , but I think could become a very good game in the future when a ton of DLC  will be released , I guess that in this case you not planned to spend 120 euros for have a good game , isn't  ?


SEQUEL AND SEQUEL AGAIN

Also if is true that at every generation of console  born  some new brands , it's also true that most of the games are sequels of sequels , same gameplay , same characters , same plot , it's very hard that somebody will invest in innovation and try something of new , also because the videogames budget
has become so huge that a company can't make mistake about it.

MOBILE COMPETITION 

Time ago, the console had to share the market only with the personal computer , now have also the mobile competition , some people prefer play with cheap games on smartphone and tablets , and probably this are help to killing the console.


Well , for all this reason I think the console gaming is very close to a new collapse , and sad to say , we need of it in order that the whole videogame industry reborn stronger how did in the past , we don't have to stop to buy games , but we should start to pretend respect , don't buy low quality videogame , not accept crazy methods that some greedy softwarehouses adopt with the purpose to extort money from you , we must teach again to the  videogame industry to treat us how we deserve.

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1 commento:

  1. Famicon is considered the console who raised the Whole industry after the crash , it was been release in the 1983 , but was only between the 1985 and the 1987 that was able to raise the market with the released of awesome game like Metroid , Zelda , Super Mario Bross and so on.

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