Polygon (Microsoft-funded mouthpiece): Games like Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth aren’t sustainable, and the Sony layoffs prove it

[MaxParrish]

He's trying to take an ostensibly pro worker position, but advocating for lower budgets will lead to fewer jobs and career opportunities, and lower wages for developers, artists, voice actors, etc., as well as promote increased offshoring of positions to developing countries for pennies on the dollar. This is basic fucking logic. I wish the editors of these outlets would employ just a tiny bit of critical thinking before immediately publishing crap like this.

It is a particularly stupid take becauseduring the first half of the generations SE have mostly tried that approach, makin AA games with shorter development and lighter budget ( FF Origins, the new Valkyrie, Triangle Strategy, ecc) and the result is that most of the games didn't make any money.

 

[Sircaw]

Games like Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth aren’t sustainable, and the Sony layoffs prove it

Do you want mushroom-picking minigames or a healthy industry? You can’t have both

www.polygon.com

Sharing an absolutely absurd hit piece by Polygon on both FFVII Rebirth and Sony, where they create an admittedly non-existent link between Sony's layoffs and Rebirth's size.


The obvious reference for bloat and padding would've been Starfield's copypasta procedurally-generated activities, but nope, he takes aim at Spiderman 2's 20 hour experience:


The sloppily written article by Oli Welsh conflates development budget with development time in successive paragraphs and trips over its own feet.

Ed's note: BG3 and Helldivers took 7-8 years to develop.

The comments are even more insane, with the top rated crackpot suggesting Sony probably lost money on Spiderman 2 at 10million copies sold using slopmath.

Source for Microsoft funding:

Look forward to linking their bullshit articles when FF7 rebirth picks up multiple the Game of the year Awards.

 

[ultimateFF]

motherfucker got offended by mushroom-picking minigames in one of 2024 GOTY-candidate not available on eksbotz . Maybe you should stick your healthy, expensive living boring western AAA games industry up your ass, and stop minding Asian games industry, idiot .