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Re: There are too many video games

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Post by a_t48 » Fri, Feb 04, 2022, 1:42 AM UTC

suifbwish wrote: post #165

a_t48 wrote: post #54

Let's say for the sake of argument that there is too much art out there, that we need less people writing novels and more people fixing potholes and whatnot - fine. How does the author propose deciding _who_ gets to make art? Even if you have an oracle who can assign some sort of quality number to an art project before it's made...how are people supposed to get better at it? It's going to take thousands of cruddy Uni…

This completely misses the point of art. Art is just an outward expression of thought and feeling, desires, fears, hopes, pain, pleasure. The problem is not that there is too much art or too many games, the problem is there is not enough TRULY artistic art or games. Most games now are created for profit and not because someone is trying to create the world they love. Likewise a lot of “art” created now is made to be…

This is dangerously close to "no true scotsman". "This game isn't true art!" Trying to categorize things as artistic or not is a losing battle

Re: There are too many video games

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Post by padobson » Sat, Feb 05, 2022, 1:43 AM UTC

a_t48 wrote: post #85

a_t48 wrote: post #54

Let's say for the sake of argument that there is too much art out there, that we need less people writing novels and more people fixing potholes and whatnot - fine. How does the author propose deciding _who_ gets to make art? Even if you have an oracle who can assign some sort of quality number to an art project before it's made...how are people supposed to get better at it? It's going to take thousands of cruddy Uni…

Read through some other posts - author is a game developer who founded his own company. This post feels like one of three things: 1. burnout, as someone else pointed out. 2. a very good troll :) 3. A somewhat poorly guided but honest attempt to dissuade people from joining the games industry (possibly mixed with 1.) As someone who started their career in games and left - he's not wrong. The games industry is kind of…

I feel like the author has used his games published numbers to hide the fact that the number of gamers is large and growing much larger all the time.

There are 8 billion people in this world, and the Playstation 2 is the highest selling console ever at 155 million[0].

In a world of 3 billion computer and internet users, 12,000 Steam games a year doesn't seem like that much too me.

The real problem is that all the sales are going to go to the top 1% of games.

But here's another truth that dispels the author's main point: I can make one or two games a year, but I can play dozens of them.

Game developers that see this problem should be encouraging people to develop games - and buy as many indie games as they can afford.

In a world where everyone is making art at 1x and buying art at 10x, then many many more people can make a living from their art.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_cons...

Re: There are too many video games

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Post by JetSpiegel » Tue, Feb 08, 2022, 9:38 PM UTC

thewakalix wrote: post #101

Shadonototra wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or: they got so much in VC funding that they don't know what to do with the money anymore money incorrectly spread teachers starving, making an indecent low amount of money; as a result

The existence of VC funding is directly responsible for teachers starving? I don't see how that follows.

Teacher's pension funds are part of the source of VC funds.