I see people referencing ESG more and more these days and there seems to be a blatant and undeniable link now between shit, poorly disguised unreal asset flips which even the big studios are doing and them running off a check list of cringey woke talking points or characters that almost always look the same.
If we think about it all titles now seem to follow this type of pattern:
. Blatant Unreal world environment assets that they don't even try to hide or edit properly anymore
. Speed tree ( Possibly the most favourite overused tool of a big studio I love to frequently reference for doubters )
. Usually the most basic third person character controller you've ever seen
. Black woman with afro or dreadlocks heavily featured, usually with a white female in tow and several male background characters
. Possibly characters lifted straight out of metahumans? Difficult to tell, can't confirm properly as of yet but they all look suspiciously similar in terms of fidelity and the setup - see video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXuVqfasT90
This isn't what I'm interested in despite the lengthy post, all of these moves by big studios have one thing in common. That's to reduce production time, reliance on a large art team which would have been necessary back in the day and general running costs of maintaining a big studio.
No, what's activating the old weaponised autism on this issue we're facing as gamers is what is truly driving this? Are we looking at a situation where we're going to have something akin to big studios turning into zombie companies that maintain a skeleton crew of do nothing diversity hire employees while you have one or two real designers doing all the work in the background? It seems that if the ESG subsidies are as massive as people seem to think it could well be worthwhile for CEOs to operate their companies as minimally as possible and simply pocket this government money as long as they like and because it's allegedly Blackrock. Much like how hotels are being paid ridiculous amounts of money to house migrants rather than operate themselves as a legitimate business with infinite government money the business owners aren't going to give a shit about what happens as long as they get to keep pocketing their half a million in the bank every year and leave the community to rot.
This means that they can and will keep producing infinite amounts of shit at very little cost and even if gamers all get mad and jump ship it's not going to matter and they will still keep churning this out every year as long as they maintain their diversity quotas and keep getting money.
Yes everybody, I am going down a major conspiracy rabbit hole with this and my brain has been ticking away. I want to know if there are any kind of financial numbers or reports buried deep in the way that potentially supports all of this cringe mediocrity.
No you are ranting about esg and complaining devs use a tool that has been around for 2 decades to make production of mundane background objects like trees more quickly freeing up time for their artist to work on other assets that they would not have had time or the budget for without it. You might as well link esg to carpenters who have the nerve to purchase boxes of nails instead of forging them themselves.
Why not add Wwise sound engine use too because ” those lazy devs” aren’t spending time authoring their own unique sound engine when it’s more efficient to license wwise.
Or any other middleware tool that has been used for decades because of the quality end result and low price to license vs creating it from scratch.
You are connecting dots to stuff that are totally unrelated to esg and name dropping development tools as if they’re use because it saves the developers time and money is somehow a sign of esg to involvement. And claiming that because they saved money on one thing that it’s a scam for them to charge the same price or slightly more than the historical price for a game…. Because the trees that’s only job is to fit into the environment and not look weird was made with a tool specifically designed to make the pain in the ass task of modeling a kit of trees easier was used.
I've been pointing out that paid assets are a part of the scam they are not 'the' scam. Over-reliance on paid assets are how they facilitate ESG. I don't know how more I can repeat myself before you finally get it but I'm betting you're a person who isn't wanting to. The only way you can defend that shit if you're being dishonest and you know it, it's not simply a cost cutting measure in the slightest with these types of devs. I have the feeling like other people you've got some kind of personal stake in this because it involves devs you might like.
You are. You are linking the use of decades old tools that predate esg scores to a sign of esg in games. You know very little about game development or esg, but feel very compelled to talk about it
I love how there's fucking receipts on all of this and everyone can see it but you, please explain why I should even bother engaging with you anymore especially given I do actually know a lot about games development?
The fucking receipts that most large games studios license middleware tools that predate esg money in games? And even if esg was not a thing they would still be licensing these tools? You are linking bull shit together.