Deprofessionalization
Today’s video we discuss the latest AAA lamentation of “deprofessionalization” in the games industry – the idea that because new AAA games aren’t hitting as they used to, new Live Service & SAAS games aren’t taking off (some being cancelled outright weeks after launch) and seeing Independent developers taking center stage with gamers as a threat to the industry. This is all supposed to be a bad thing according to “professionals” in the industry.
The truth is – consumers are speaking with their wallets and the corpo market is reacting in fear as large companies fail to understand the market shift and fail to capitalize on it as behemoth publishers and developers are incapable of being agile enough to move with and to the audience. Turns out, spending years ignoring the consumer’s wants leads to disaster and we indies are here for it.
