When your ideas are applied to racing games (my favorite genre), it sounds like they're specifically being turned into always-online live services because an entire generation of consoomers has successfully been fooled into thinking that spending their entire lives playing these games every hour of the day online (we tend to call this "no-lifing" a game BTW) will be their tickets to real-world professional racing stardom a la Jann Mardenborough or Lucas Ordonez.
So, because so many people focus so much on the online portion of these games and demand more regulation and attention to them from the developers, this is the part of the game developers commit most to.
Anyone who just wants to play the game for fun gets neglected by the developers because they're too busy basing their game around being the subject of the next feel-good media story.
It sounds like you're saying that the pursuit for unrealistic fame and fortune is what ruined games rather than esports specifically.
What do you think some solutions to this could be in the long term?
When your ideas are applied to racing games (my favorite genre BTW), it sounds like they're specifically being turned into always-online live services because an entire generation of consoomers has successfully been fooled into thinking that spending their entire lives playing these games every hour of the day online will be their tickets to real-world professional racing stardom a la Jann Mardenborough or Lucas Ordonez.
So, because so many people focus so much on the online portion of these games and demand more regulation and attention to them from the developers, this is the part of the game developers commit most to.
Anyone who just wants to play the game for fun gets neglected by the developers because they're too busy basing their game around being the subject of the next feel-good media story.
It sounds like you're saying that the pursuit for unrealistic fame and fortune is what ruined games rather than esports specifically.
What do you think some solutions to this could be in the long term?