NULL mag Issue 08 08 Gaming in the present

eZine lover (@eZine)

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 · 3 years ago

  

 

 
    i am not much of a gamer type guy... i do play occasionally some 
    games, here and there, but most of them are old. a few times a 
    played some new games, specially on my android smartphone, i can say 
    that i was frustrated by playing them. and i don't mean the 
    graphics or the gameplay. those were way too cool for me... but i 
    was feeling very awkard with the whole adverstisement and "pay to 
    play" thing... 

                                      ì 

    for smartphone games, that are offered for free, i get it... in some 
    way the developers have to be paid... ok... but in a reasonable 
    price! i mean... you can see prices like "100$ for 100gems/credits" 
    which i think are too much! with 100$ you could buy a complete game, 
    not just 100 in game credits... i mean.. this is furious! 

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    also the thing with the advertisements has gotten out of hand... 
    every time you loose, every time you go to the next level... you 
    have to see ads! no...no...no... this is torture! i prefer to pay a 
    reasonable price for a game, but get a physical copy of it, and play 
    it... which brings the other matter. 

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    physical copies of games! non existant any more... why? i don't 
    think that games become cheaper by not using hard copies... did you 
    see that? why pay for a game, that i have no disc/cartidge for it? 
    why i have to donwload all that GBs of shit code, to play the game? 
    why i have to register and pay for online services... wait for 
    updates/upgrades to download... or even the complete game? and the 
    thing is, that young children don't care... that's the way they used 
    to it and just wait, wait, wait... and their parents, just pay, pay, 
    pay... i mean... this is peoples stupidity! and a great success for 
    corporate marketing... 

                                      ì 

    i like my games to have a physical media... even if i have a rom for 
    it, i still want the hard copy. it's like making a transaction, with 
    another party and you want to have something as a receipt, at least. 
    also in the past, the physical copy, had more stuff in it, like 
    maps, manuals, little gifts etc... and also the smell of opening a 
    package was something memorable :) 

                                      ì 

    but the worst thing, is the abudance of games, with less quality, 
    that we have today. the majority of games today, are "time-killing 
    machines"... they don't give to you something to remember... perhaps 
    a story or the feel to be part of a story, to be the hero... the 
    majority, are just to waste some time and spend money to buy useless 
    stuff, to allow you to play the game in hamane way... cause 
    otherwise there are delays, stuff that you are not able to get etc. 

                                      ì 

    in the beginning of the indy game dev. i really like the idea... but 
    now that i see, how it become, i disgust it... i prefer to pay 
    40-50-60 euros/dollars for a game of a big company like nintendo, 
    that i know that i will enjoy, than to play free games, that will 
    get into my nerves. 

                                      ì 

    i am sure, that are some gray areas in the matter and there are 
    exceptions in both game styles (physical/digital, free/paid) but 
    the big part of the market, is full of shity, cheapo games, that 
    just want to get your money. i think that i am not the only one 
    feeling this way. we can see clearly, specially with the retro 
    stuff, that physical media is not over and some companies invest on 
    this idea. it reminds a bit the situation with the music 
    companies/market, in which both digital and physical media exist in 
    some type of balance... and the physical media, is not just cds but 
    also vinyl. same goes for the game industry... where we can see that 
    cartidges are not complete dead and companies still make some new 
    retro/oldschool games in cartidges or cds. 

                                      ì 

    i am sure that even a young kid, who is used into playing digital 
    games only, is introduced in physical copies and also games with no 
    ads, no pay to play and with a nice story in it, will want more of 
    that. today the game industry, is being manipulated by the corps. 
    and not by the gamers... that's why we get so shity games. 

 

 

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