there have been many awesome games made by one man. not aaa titles with all the bells and whistles, often not with audiences in the millions (though cases do exist), but maybe even better games at the core than those. the industry functions mainly by brute force, and is very risk averse, ie very rarely actually innovates, so most games are clones and the main difference is how much money was pumped into them, and into marketing. but if we are talking purely about the game concept, one motivated guy (or a tiny group) can outpace that quite easily, actually.
there have been many awesome games made by one man. not aaa titles with all the bells and whistles, often not with audiences in the millions (though cases do exist), but maybe even better games at the core than those. the industry functions mainly by brute force, and is very risk averse, ie very rarely actually innovates, so most games are clones and the main difference is how much money was pumped into them, and into marketing. but if we are talking purely about the game concept, one motivated guy (or a tiny group) can outpace that quite easily, actually.
I read that sentence and couldn't help but think of Derek Smart.
I'll leave just this here:
https://kotaku.com/the-curious-case-of-the-ea-game-dev-who-said-he-receive-1820474458
https://kotaku.com/the-curious-case-of-the-ea-game-dev-who-said-he-receive-1820474458
I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if actual EA developers have received actual threats. There are a lot of nutters out there, and it isn't hard to find cases where it has happened before. Which makes it a real issue. Most people are capable of discussing more than one thing - though for the sake of clarity it is often best to discuss them is separate threads.
People get threats doing lots of things, hell I stopped counting how many death threats I have gotten just playing games. But this is being used to distract from the real issue. Also what does talking about it going to do? Just don't send threats, nothing we do with stop the world from having some nuttters, nor will it effect said nutters. Take care of your own actions because you can't effect the actions of everone.
Have you seen the internet? I have seen 3 year old's with longer attention spans. So no people can't discus more than one thing at a time. Also there is no discussion, just don't do it. Most people understand this and as such most people don't do it.
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