I'm bringing this up because of the latest news that Bungie is stopping live support of Destiny 2 after the next update, probably to desperately focus on Marathon. But you combine it with:
• Ubisoft circling the drain
• A game getting review bombed to hell as a link to Anita was found
• Shift Up has abandoned Sony publication just as Sony desperately try to rename woke game Fairgame$ to salvage ANY return
• Asian studios cutting ties to western studios in general
It does feel like we are reaching the endgame now where it will be 'purge the left or die' at a lot of these studios, it's just a matter of is there anything left to save in some of them?
I certainly hope so. The more painful and far-reaching the crash is going to be the better.
I don't think they can "purge the left". That ideology is too far ingrained in developers, executives, marketing, etc. Plus, the quality of developers will continue to decline as the jeetification continues.
Best situation is a 'break off' then like that new studio that formed from ex CDProjekt Red guys?
Don't really see too much of a future there. Either they're explicitly anti-left which means everyone in the industry will be out to get them. Or they're fairly normie and will eventually get subverted, like the Kingdom Come devs.
I definitely agree. There are far too many hardliners of their religion still employed all over the industry. Even indie games are filled with them.
Feels like the only shot the bigger companies have is to avoid chasing all the money, and return to the old model of some profit being good enough.