Top 5 Things That Will DESTROY the Video Game Industry

[@rabbidluigi]

I remembered how to make KZbin videos

[@insainraven9875]

Love to see it happen!

[@jameslawrenson1208]

What's the music used for number 2?

[@SaintJoker42]

Thank God! ❤ my fav pure gaming channel

[@AdmiralBobbery123]

AI thumbnail is cringe - would recommend changing it to any other picture of a sad Mario

[@Octav2000]

False

[@ivanbluecool]

The less value in gameplay and more value in graphics is ruining games. If I wanted to see something realistic I'd look outside my window.

[@Shantae1188]

Exactly. I have never been a fan of realism in video games. It’s basically asking the absolute impossible

[@DisorderedFleshAutomata-sm8cd]

The Indie scene is proof of art style over realism. Signalis, Outer Wilds, Disco Elysium. None of them are realistic but they all have designs that stick with you.

[@Practitioner_of_Diogenes]

Agreed. Style over realism. Gameplay over appearances. The problem is some creative directors want to basically make a movie without making a movie.

[@Cuprite1024]

I've never understood the obsession people have with graphics. It makes sense with the companies because they're just trying to one-up each other, but I don't get it for players. Graphics are the least important part of a game for me. Good visuals are nice to have, but I don't care about it so long as it doesn't cause my eyes to bleed.

[@grayfox4819]

Fanbases are also destroying gaming. Especially Sony fanboys, who in the last year have sabotaged hundreds of amazing games in order to make Spider Man 2 the only successful game. Vomit.

[@rmzing]

Top 5 in a nutshell: #5: Greed #4: Greed #3: Greed #2: Greed #1: Greed

[@CassiusStelar]

"hello gays, today we have a list of top Cinco greed"

[@kingechatronii7379]

I firmly believe that this is the start of the realisation of people that AAA isn't worth their time and money seeing how the quality has been plummeting for awhile. I personally think indie devs have a bigger chance now

[@bobafett4265]

That they do, heck smaller costing titles have seemed to have done way better than expected like Helldivers 2 and Palworld since there's lower risk thus it makes it all the more enticing.

[@mravg79]

I would add mid size budget to the mix. I often have more fun in those. My problem with big budget titles are they seem like made of template one big one with a few IF statements. Or they have a really weird design decisions that seem not make sense in the world the game takes place. The cherry on top of this crap cake are games which are released in poor technical state. I also recently started playing more games from my backlog.

[@bobafett4265]

@@mravg79 True that man, also I have been going through my backlog as well, I recently went through the entire Evil Within series and recently wrapped up the sequel, so yeah it's not uncommon due to the state of modern gaming these days.

[@Dualblades47]

I do agree in general, but Capcom and some other eastern devs have still been putting out pretty great stuff. It comes down to being very discerning as a consumer and making sure you know what you're getting into before buying a game.

[@TriforceZard]

Greedy CEO’s. Pretty much all of it comes back to greedy CEO’s.

[@frankieseward8667]

By 2030 those ceos will be broke and blacklisted.

[@jameslawrenson1208]

It's their ips to sit on and do nothing with.

[@Enderblade312]

@@jameslawrenson1208Maybe if you’re lucky they’ll offer you a chicken nugget. Jokes aside, I’m hoping that enough backlash can improve things, but it likely won’t since the silent masses will keep buying stuff and putting money in the pockets of people who already have more money than the average person would ever see across several lifetimes. Everybody has at least one game they wish could see some form of continuation, but no, it’s company property that will not see the light of day.

[@foristrothbert568]

It's so weird how there were greedy CEOs since the start of video games and yet games were a lot better, more creative, and fun back them.

[@jruler93]

That's the problem with near enough every industry; there's always some fat cats at the top looking to gorge themselves at the detriment of everyone else below them.

[@gowary]

Shareholders will be the death of good videogames. They have no idea what makes an enjoyable experience but keep forcing microtransactions, live service models and sh*t that drive most away

[@DetectiveBarricade]

I'd argue that the bigger problem is CEOs that promise shareholders record profits that they then come to expect. Your Bobby Koticks and Andrew Wilsons, if you will. They only see the disgustingly lucrative profits of free-to-play mobile games and proceed to force that in rather than temper shareholder expectations to something reasonable that doesn't involve churn, crunch, or treating customers like walking piggy banks.

[@Redhotsmasher]

@@DetectiveBarricade I'm tempted to counter-argue that this still boils down to clueless shareholders investing in a market they know nothing about. If you're willing to invest in a company solely based on the CEO's lofty promises without any real understanding of the market, you probably shouldn't be investing money, and if you still do, you're probably part of what the most enthusiastic parts of the customer base of said market calls "the problem".

[@Yoshixandir]

Another thing that can kill while it doesn’t apply just the video game industry it’s just how some companies handle backlash whenever a customer and fan isn’t happy with the product. Attacking the customer and saying it’s their fault is not gonna make people want to support

[@christiandauz3742]

"Ok, we understand. If we make a sequel hopefully it does better in your eyes. We have other games that are more to your liking."

[@mravg79]

Corporations seems to forget about customer choice. The final decision to buy, to wait for sale or deep sale or not to buy product is a decision that customer makes. So they should please the customer not bite the hand that feeds them.

[@Mpcs84]

Support indie games and devs.

[@ivanbluecool]

Graphics over gameplay not focusing on making a great experience to play but something that is only praised for looking nice. Dlc being treated less as a bonus and more as the actual content behind an extra pay wall instead of an extension of a good game. Games that lose all their content the moment the online servers shut down because most of the stuff is only for multiplayer Game clones that copy what's big but don't improve upon them and release them as fast as possible.

[@JacktheLightningRipper]

For as much as I adored Spider Man 2 and was happy to see it get the amount of praise that it got, the fact that Insomniac STILL faced layoffs in the face of it is just sad.

[@grayfox4819]

You mean, the same praises that led to the ruin of all the other games released in 2023 (especially Nintendo's ones)? Right... praises...

[@sonicrunn3r895]

@@grayfox4819 Could you elaborate what you mean by this? I'm trying to make sense of what you're saying but not a word of it makes sense

[@grayfox4819]

I'll make it simple: being the only first party game they got, Sony fanboys went all over the place on the entire internet spreading hate against the ones of other companies (especially Nintendo's ones) in order to make sure that game was the most successful one. Many many many times I heard phrases of the likes "Spider Man 2 is more worthy than all Nintendo's games of 2023, the Gamepass and the Microsoft-Activision merging put together" and it hurts my nerves on multiple grades. That's one of the main reasons of why after Paper Mario releases, I'm quitting gaming for good. If to keep going I also have to suffer at the hands of those people, and risking to come to hate the games I loved throught the years, then I prefer to not get new games ever again.

[@JacktheLightningRipper]

@@grayfox4819 By praise, that is absolutely NOT what I was talking about. I, too, am annoyed that the PS5 is still lacking in terms of exclusives and using it to trash on other consoles is childish but it does not change what I think of Spider Man 2 as a game.

[@grayfox4819]

Tsk, suit yourself. For me Spider Man 2, or better, the people who actually used to ruin ther games released last year are evil incarnated. There have been so many amazing games last year, but they've been all denigrated, in favor of Spider Man 2, and not because it has more merits than all the others, but because of the hate its sick fans have spredt in order to make it the one at the top, and only because it's a first party Sony, and according modern gamers, Sony's first party games are the ones that must be at the top, it's an abomination. This is among the main reasons of why after I get Paper Mario later this month, I'm quitting gaming for good. If to keep getting more games I have to constantly deal with these monsters, then I prefer to give it up instead (besides, I have nothing to lose in quitting, it's been a really long time since the last game of my interest was announced, which happens to be Paper Mario itself, so I have no reasons to keep going with this anyway). I'll get Paper Mario and then I'm... done...

[@WayWardWonderer]

Studios being bought-out then left unused, causing beloved I.P.'s to needlessly die as they become forgotten. Games being supported only by online play - "Overwatch" is dead and the game disc is now a novelty item.

[@Nosidda]

This is why I think it was ludicrous when people were saying that Baldur's Gate 3 was setting the new standard for RPG's. People's expectations have gotten so out of hand, that it has resulted in game budgets exploding to meet those expectations. And that is so unbelievably unsustainable, that this can absolutely kill this industry. And while companies share lots of the blame for this, so do we for wanting to have the entire world for only $60. To that end, it's no wonder why the industry is moving to $70 games. Hell, we're lucky a game doesn't cost $120, and that would still be considered not ideal for pricing given the budgets of these games. This is why I think Nintendo has the right idea. Yes, Nintendo has high budgets occasionally, but their most expensive games have been the Breath of the Wild series, and even then they aren't even half as expensive as how much it cost to develop Spiderman 2. They focus on budgets and expectations that are realistic, which is something that both the companies AND the consumer have to learn from. Games like Baldur's Gate 3 are anomalies. They are the result of exactly the right circumstances being met at exactly the right time to allow a game like this to happen. They should NOT be treated as a new standard. To suggest otherwise is absurdly unrealistic. People always complain about games not being worth the price, but then complain about budgets being too high, but then also want to defend the employment situations in the industry to ensure they're paid fairly. Yes, employment situations have to improve, that is top priority. In addition, we have to make budgets more reasonable and sustainable. But in order for these things to happen, it requires effort from the consumer end. We HAVE to lower our expectations for the value of a $60 game. We have to accept games that are shorter, smaller, and don't look as pretty. If we as consumers are unwilling to budge on this, then these problems will only continue to get worse, and AI will continue to be pursued to replace workers to meet these high expectations.

[@christiandauz3742]

To be fair BG3 didn't have the bullshit developers and management other games had to deal with Andromeda and Anthem COULD HAVE been great!

[@Gokuzard97]

Every time I see stuff like "The death of gaming is imminent," I look at how Nintendo and indies... generally don't fall into most of the pitfalls that AAA publishers do.

[@EsmeAmelia]

One of the many reasons why I mainly play Nintendo and indies. And retro stuff.

[@eeveeongirl]

Nintendo just has a better course of action when things go south (and for them it has happened multiple times). They know how to take a failure, learn from it, and bounce back. The wiiu is still the greatest example of how they handled a financial problem, the heads of the company took massive pay cuts (Iwata took a 50% cut) to avoid layoffs because they knew they needed a full team to bounce back and then we got the switch!

[@CassiusStelar]

​@@eeveeongirlI fucking hate Nintendo as a corporate entity most of the time but Iwata was the god damn GOAT

[@MrMariosonicman]

I think the recent waves of Developers and journalists insulting gamers over fanservice and representation is also gonna be the end, in a world where game prices are skyrocketing, the last thing you want to do is do away with your own customers and make them angry with bad changes. you want to bring in new customers ALONG with your old ones, removing 1 for the other results in less profits. and thats eventually going to lead to failed companies who took the advice of people that hate gamers.

[@Talisguy]

You're assuming that there's no crossover between "gamers" and "people who'd like the opportunity to have a serious conversation with a female character without the entire shot being taken up by her ass." That's not true. Plenty of people who already play games also fall into camp 2. Plenty of people who already play games are not straight, cisgender white men and would like the opportunity to see themselves reflected in their medium of choice. I am most of the things I mentioned that not all gamers are, I'm pretty close to the median gamer in a lot of ways, and I tend to dislike fanservice outside of moments where it makes narrative sense (unless that's the main point of the game) because it's usually a jarring reminder that I'm playing a game, that this is a work of fiction. I don't imagine most male gamers have this viewpoint, but I honestly don't think most of them will refuse to buy a game if there are no ass shots in it. I don't see this being an industry-killer. The potential for harm is certainly miniscule compared to the risks of corporate greed.

[@MrMariosonicman]

@@Talisguy its not specifically whats in the game im making the main point about, its moreso how the devs treat gamers after some changes. or how journalists treat gamers in general. A game called farm folks currently had their CEO interview a journalist after some heat for a silly tweet, and the journalist took a part of their interview to make it sound like the dev thinks people who want jiggle phisics never seen a girl before and are repulsive. when the CEO actually ment people tho think boob phisics is worth getting insulted about should see a girl instead. now the CEO is getting shit on by people who wanted to buy the game but wont because they think he finds them repulsive due to the journalists lies. their actions are harming the gaming landscape even if slowly and is eventually gonna destroy consumer trust.

[@NetBattler]

​​@@Talisguythe moment you type "cisgender white men" I know this is just a brain rot comment

[@claytonrios1]

NFTs, Live Services and CEOs with Sexual Assault scandals?

[@At0micPunk90]

I've personally come to the conclusion that we would need to have another crash (like the one in '83) for the games industry to reset itself. The problem is that a lot of people would be hurt by that, it wouldn't be the ones who should be (scumbag CEO's and greedy shareholders, etc.). Non-indie modern gaming has gotten so bad that I've almost exclusively pivoted to retro stuff. I haven't bought a new game since Super Mario Bros. Wonder last year, and Nintendo is pretty much the only company I still buy new from. I refuse to buy anything with Activision-Blizzard's name on it after all that horrible stuff came out about them (and I depressingly seem to be in the minority on that one). And then there's of course all the usual stuff; layoffs, micro-transactions, DRM taking away any concept of ownership, A.I. taking over, exhausting culture war bullshit.... It's just sad to look at the medium/industry that's brought me so much joy over the past 26 years of my life since I was 7 years old, and see the state of things. And unfortunately, things seem like they will get even worse before they get better (and I don't know about that last part). And that's not even getting into the sorry state of game preservation, as Rabbid mentions in the video.

[@shinysilverstardust]

I say this time and time again, but please support indie games.

[@christiandauz3742]

Do research first THEN support the right Indie developers

[@MistahMex]

@@christiandauz3742 like massive monster

[@SputnikKaiser]

@@christiandauz3742Are you talking about indie devs being bad at their jobs or having SCAAAAAAARY political views?

[@Saltyoven]

I mean problematic political often coincide with treating their workers like shit soooooo...

[@NetBattler]

No.

[@DebTheDevastator]

I haven't bought a Triple AAA game since TOTK because everything coming out isn't worth the price. I haven't even upgraded to the newest systems because no matter how big the budget or the specs, I feel like the inflation in the game industry is just a bubble waiting to pop.

[@sonicrunn3r895]

I'm a 2nd year university student, soon to move into my 3rd year of university studying Game Design and Development. And the way I keep seeing without fail the endless layoffs in the industry just has me extremely worried for my future, as well as the futures of everyone else here with me doing the same. This industry is horrifying in the modern day.

[@rpgfan1187]

There's a reason that most of my favorite games in recent years have been indie titles. You can tell that these are passion projects for the devs and that they are more in tune with what people look for in games. AAA gaming is on a slippery slope that gets steeper with each passing year, and I honestly don't think it can recover at this point.

[@LadyLeomon]

Hi Early Squad! For me personally? DLC is a big contender. I miss the days when you buy the full game *at launch* but now you need to pay again and again to get what should have been included at the start 😞😞😞 Thanks for the new video RabbidLuigi and hug your furbabies all 💙🐱💙

[@lightdarksoul2097]

I don't know dlc can be pretty great. just look at Mario kart those tracks would never have been thought of for the original mk8. day one dlc though? kill it

[@Cuprite1024]

There's a bit more nuance to it than just "DLC bad." If it's been in extra development for a while beyond the game's release, I don't have a problem with it. It's when you have day 1 DLC that's obviously just content ripped from the base game to be sold back to the player a second time that I start to have problems (Looking at you, Dragon Quest Monsters 3).

[@404Errored]

I mean there's plenty of awful DLC out there but there's shittons of awesome ones too. Blood and wine from the witcher 3 is still what i consider the best DLC I've ever played to this day.

[@christiandauz3742]

To be fair those are more like Expansion Packs like how old PC games did it

[@Practitioner_of_Diogenes]

On the note of number 3- I had a teacher this college semester show us a program written by an AI and... uh... It was so ass, so many logic errors that program couldn't even run properly. So, not too worried on that end.

[@jonbourgoin182]

That's one negative example, sure. But think of the most sophisticated AI programs that have been demonstrated publicly, now realize that there exists classified top secret AI out there that is 1,000x more sophisticated than anything that's been made public, and only the most clandestine levels of government have any experience or awareness of it

[@Shantae1188]

What a depressingly accurate statement that could happen

[@betelgeuseism]

People underestimate the importance of preservation, especially when it comes to an industry that changes so fast. These companies are basically deleting their own history, and much of the importance that comes with it for gamers and anyone who sees art in games.

[@TheJasonJackson84]

Even with the physical discs, online connection can take away your right to play games

[@Nin10doh98]

What the fuck is that thumbnail

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

Hideous Mario apparently.

[@sustainna]

looks like AI trash

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

@@LuigiXHero It's just a thumbnail. What's the big deal?

[@gugo80]

AI sludge

[@piemaster1288]

The one thing I think that could help save games is the rise of the double A game (Helldivers as a good example) and indie games (Undertale) that focus less on super budgets and work on making a good game rather than something that will make all the money in the world. The fact that a small game like Helldivers 2 can outshine big AAA games like sea of thieves or Suicide Squad shows me that all hope is not yet lost (Sony's stupidity with Helldivers 2 PNS accounts withstanding). I think this big budget nonsense happened with movies for a while too before smaller studios came along and showed that not every movie needed to have thousands of extras and extreme scale just to be successful. Hopefully the video game industry will realize this too and will start making more AA and A games rather than spending massive sums of money on every single game they make.

[@naomiskilling1093]

I feel like a good lot of this list (maybe not the cost of development tho) could be solved if there was a mass move to unionise in the video game industry. Unionisation would definitely help to fight against shit like lay-offs, the extreme level of crunch, and the encroachment of AI as a means of replacing the work of actual staff.

[@mikethegrunty5968]

Ballooning costs and unrealistic sales expectations

[@linkthehero8431]

2:47 is why I'm glad I have an Android phone and Windows computer with a bunch of emulators and also why I'm glad the Internet Archive exists.

[@MangusMangoman]

Another one that isn't as bad as neither of those 5 but I think deserves to be mention is the over-relaying on remasters and, to a lesser extent, remakes. There is nothing wrong with them on their own, but it feels like we have reached a point in which companies are starting favouring way more the safe bet of rereleasing something over trying new stuff. The reason why remakes of things from the 90s-2000s are so cherished is precisely because it was a time when trying stuff was very prevalent, so I kinda fear that in 20 years we will keep having the same releases from that time because the only things we have from nowadays to rerelease in any capacity are the remakes of games from that time.

[@petermaguire8139]

Here's my take - devs and publishers are encouraged to make a product as marketable as possible, but there is a risk of a "death by blandness" if a certain standard of quality is guaranteed. Thats not to say that making a game with wide appeal is a bad thing, but careless interpretation of data and irresponsible budgeting (as mentioned in the video) could end up in an underperforming product, which will cause the industry harm if repeated, which is what is happening now. Basically, i think the priorities of the industry are wrong as they seem to focus on short term rather than long term financial health, but then again the video game industry is heavily influenced by technological advancements, and so there could be difficulty in thinking in the long term if the philosophy of game design is made obsolete in a few years. (Perhaps it could be that the industry is destined to fail, although that is a different debate.) Regardless, the future of gaming - whether the industry as we know it falls, what will come afterwards if it does, or how it adapts and hopefully improves if it survives - definitely needs more attention for the industry to have the best opportunity to improve on all fronts.

[@christiandauz3742]

Like the music industry Falling in Reverse is doing right by focusing on unique Singles

[@ThereAreThoseWhoCallMeTim]

The problem about corporate greed is that as detrimental as it may be to workers and consumers, it is absolutely inevitable and unavoidable in a competitive, profit-driven economy, aka capitalism. For a lot of people in the business world, greed is the only true motivator to get anything done.

[@randomclustermissile8701]

Very fitting that this video gets released shortly after Playstation announced that Helldivers 2 can only be played by people with a PSN account, even if they bought the game off of steam. Meaning that players from 177 different countries can now no longer play it since PSN is not available for them. (Supposedly the Helldivers 2 dev team knew this was coming but are essentially powerless in stopping it, and are even urging people who cannot play the game anymore to refund it so that Sony gets the message) This plus Nintendo's refusal to share their IPs with anyone could actually be a 6th thing that destroys the industry - refusing other people to use their IPs even for non-profit reasons. Nintendo's crackdowns on emulation, as well as the horrifying takedowns on the steam community are completely unnecessary and only hurt Nintendo even further. Suffice to say, this plus everything mentioned in this video is really discouraging (huge understatement) me to pursue my dream of getting into the video game industry. We are so fucked

[@GameAW1]

The second one doesn't really hurt the industry so much as it hurts Nintendo itself in the long run. Crack the whip too hard and eventually people decide to have their own take on the general idea with their own world and characters. Hell, it happened with Palworld for example, and that managed to outsell Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Its more a power play by the company not realizing that all it takes is one creative and skilled enough developer to whip right back at them.

[@kiwikarp9509]

I like fan games and emulation as much as the next guy, but that 2nd paragraph is NOT comparable to the 1st one. Legally, Nintendo is in the right to take those down, and they aren't screwing over customers that already gave them money by doing so. There are plenty of things to criticize Nintendo for, like: -Nearly everything about Nintendo Switch Online -Using the "Free Update" model for many of their games -Never charging below $60 for any of their games despite how lacking in content some are because of said model(Switch Sports, Kirby Star Allies, All the Switch Mario Sports Games) -Making games available for a limited time to create artificial scarcity(Mario 3D All Stars and Fire Emblem 1) -Their massive takedowns of KZbin uploads of their osts, only to not put them on a platform like Spotify so people can easily support them legally And the list goes on. Ninendo is not an innocent company that has done no wrong, but cracking down on fan games and emulation isn't an unjust sin on their end. And even if it was, it's not comparable to what Sony did.

[@lilsunny7399]

Good news! They backpedalled on this. It's no longer going to be required.

[@GameAW1]

@@kiwikarp9509 Hold up, Star Allies was NOT lacking in content even on release. It had everything literally every Kirby game had and was missing nothing. That one released a finished game and added onto it with the free updates. It was nothing like the others where there was barely anything to do and barely anything in it until the updates hit. You can argue the game being too easy or samey sure, but it was absolutely not lacking in its content whatsoever. It was pretty much the only example they had of doing the model right in which you release a finished game and then build up on that with free stuff on top of it

[@johanstenfelt1206]

Hm, I see, interesting, If any of these will become the case, i just hope the Industry will be able to be rebuilt better than before.

[@newbiegamelover4767]

What about the rise of independent video game studios? 'Cause when so many people get laid off, some of them are bound to say "Fine! I'll just make my own!" And with Indie games becoming more mainstream, it's only a matter of time before the market is not only saturated with indie games, but practically drowning in them!

[@Shonen_Shadow]

I would say stuff like Battle Passes, microtransactions, in game stores and loot boxes with pressure to make the player spend more... These factors is the main reason I don't play American AAA games anymore

[@lonksventure]

The GOAT has returned! Wondered where you've been

[@Seoul_Soldier]

AI could have been a great tool. But thanks to greedy corporate types, it will be the death of creativity.

[@sothedain5801]

Oh great and powerful sir hear my plea, your videos are brilliant. Every one. We'll thought out, educational, reasoned, and bringing a new perspective I haven't thought of before. Things have been a bit bleak though, the well thought out and reasoned bits can be a bit difficult when they apply to the death of my best coping mechanism for The Horrors and favorite hobby. Specially when I tend to watch these at 2 am before bed. Perhaps some of the upcoming stuff could be more hopeful? How about 5 times gamers overturned a terrible decision? Like the Hell Divers thing that just happened! Just a thought. I'll still be here either way, your stuffs simply too good. Best of luck in all your endeavors and be well sir!

[@SuperJoesutton]

All five of these ultimately boil down to the one real problem that is killing most US based industries. The greed of the people sitting in the board of investor chairs. These are all ways to increase profit and decrease cost by cutting corners. Because the people up top want the largest amount of return on their investment as possible.

[@TheHylianBatman]

I think what we call "video games" will die out as different entertainment media rises up and advances. Those things will technically be "video games", but they'll be so different from what we have now that they might as well be under a different name.

[@SuperMandibleclaw]

one category: AI Uses AI for the tumbnail

[@ParryTFronters]

That’s the point.

[@Isaygoodday5]

It's called an example

[@kiwikarp9509]

I'd say it only sucks if he generated the image for thumbnail. If he grabbed it off Google I don't care.

[@kaw8473]

You don't have to be a doomsday nut-job to see the flames and smoke coming out of the dumpster.

[@jamesonshekmeister]

If there's two things that will makes games die is "greed" and "crash of 83-2."

[@Baileography]

Nothing makes my dull double shifts on Sunday better than a RabbidLuigi video to enjoy.

[@MarcAntoineHamelin]

some theorize that the great library of Alexandria was partially plundered before burning down. so hopefully some hackers can do the same before it's all erase from servers and whatnot...

[@tomjack1000000]

I think if the industry doesn't collapse under the financial cost it will end up with AI destroying it not because of lack of creativity but because it will become so powerful people can just make amazing games for free and publish them.

[@buglord1]

I only see one area where I wouldn't mind Ai being used in game development. Basically the full motion animating of the 3d models. I would love for the artists to be free to make the models and the ai just helps make the movements work out. Or maybe even for game testing just for standard tests not bug tests

[@IcyLucario]

Yeah as much as people fear monger, AI helps small creators more than anyone else. I'm a single guy and I have to try to cover every single base. 3D models, 2D art, effects, animations, programming, writing, etc. The thing is though, most indie devs are completely solo, and rarely are we successful. Meaning we're doing all that ourselves because we don't have any other option: including commissioning and hiring. "Just hire a REAL [thinghere]! >:(" Doesn't work when I can't in the first place. I'll hire when I have the money to do so, in the mean time, I'm all for AI helping me get there.

[@SuperHothead14]

Glad to see you back

[@doughnuthead8757]

I'm honestly cool with future games looking on par with 6th gen consoles if it means dev teams won't be depressed and lose their jobs.

[@Harrery]

I feel like the future will be combining AI into programming to temporarily reduce the crunch, but isn’t that the point is that the crunch is always there because it would further what games need to be so the AI/human interaction time to make it would also increase

[@laurydiffers7567]

I think game preservation is the most important thing in the industry, though rising budgets might be worse. And crunch, of course.

[@johntauren]

Games are already expensive as is. $80 CDN for a brand new game is excessive.

[@grayfox4819]

All of these are also among the reasons of why after Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door releases later this month, I'm pretty much quitting gaming. I just feel really demotivated in continuity with gaming lately between toxic fanbases (do you have the slightest idea of how many times I heard phrases like "Spider Man 2 is more worthy than all Nintendo's games of 2023, the Gamepass and the Microsoft-Activision merging put together" in the last 6 months?") and lack of games of my interest (it's been 8 months since the last game of my interest was announced... and that game was Paper Mario itself. Nothing of my liking was revealed ever since), but the reasons Rabbidluigi has listed here also add fuel to the fire for me. I just don't want to be part of such a dreadful environment, and most importantly, I don't want to risk to come to hate all the games I loved throught the time, and as such I'm just quitting gaming as whole. I'm taking time until the release of Paper Mario before completely taking distances from it. Until then, I just want to see what happens (althought, after the Helldivers 2 mess of the last two days, perhaps waiting two more weeks might not be a good idea...)

[@ShadowWolfRising]

'Number 4: Video Game Preservation.' A Reminder to go join Accursed Farm's Efforts everyone.

[@TheSaiyanGamer25]

It's already destroying itself...

[@purevampiretsukune]

I think it'll be more the death of the AAA industry, indies will be fine

[@Saltyoven]

Basically every problem you just mentioned boils down to late stage capitalism getting its hands on the industry

[@RulerX.]

Yes and no, capitalism isn’t bad. It promotes competition between companies. What is bad is using capitalism for pure greed, once companies prioritize only money. Thats when capitalism turns bad.

[@Fraxzor]

@@RulerX. Yes exactly. It's also good for allowing the best people to be hired and progress in the industry, those people are also likely to be passionate about games and produce quality. The greedy model we have now should be called something different, like corporatism.

[@RulerX.]

@@Fraxzor 100% agree 👍

[@Talisguy]

​@@RulerX. It promotes competition between developers up to a point, but without strict controls in place it's easier to simply buy the competition once you have some big successes under your belt than it is to compete. With no oversight or regulation, a capitalist gaming industry will inevitably trend towards EA.

[@Saltyoven]

@RulerX. I said Late stage capitalism, not capitalism there's a difference.

[@matthewhibbard9807]

Things that will destroy video games-> the people that will not step up against the trash tactics of the big name companies. We could end this madness in a week if we stood together in solidarity. Unfortunately people won’t do that.

[@ItMeRobin]

The topic of this video was interesting, and you made some very good points that I agree with. But one thing with your videos for the last good while that I'll be honest about, I miss the style of your older videos. Not really with getting 4 countdowns a month out or anything like that, but I remember when I watched a rabbidluigi video and it had that distinct writing style that really did feel like it was your work. Now, I honestly just feel like I am watching something that is adequate, but the only thing that really feels like you is the narration, and the actual writing feels like anyone could be saying this. Ultimately, if this is what you're happy with, because I know you got more stuff going on in life outside of just KZbin and this is likely not all that much of a priority to you, then by all means, just keep at what you're doing. But maybe one day we could see something more akin to how your videos used to be writing wise.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

0:38 And by skeletons I mean robotic ones. I hate crunch and I try to avoid jobs that have it. Thank god I failed to be a video game designer because if it is really that bad, I don't want it. I have a feeling that the AAA industry will collapse onto itself.

[@JustJulyo]

To believe this medium is barely going to celebrate 50 years before it's inevitable death.....

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

I'm going to be honest. I love megaman 11, but the fact that capcom _specifically_ created it as a attempt to quell the fires of inafune's "anime fan boy on prom night fiasco" and get our attention back as megaman fans, only to just immediately stop because people recognized 60 bucks is a bit high, genuinely tells me a lot

[@gohanhikari9861]

Hey Rabbid I don't comment often but as you said in number 4 Video game preservation is very scarce so i just wanted to shine a light on a campaign to help it being taken seriously as a state law in any state so it'll be illegal to axe games with no hope of getting back. The main thesis of this whole movement at the moment is really getting as many people worldwide to is people to know about The Crew a game you probably already seen get scrubbed from people's consoles the second it lost developer support and having them show their receipts of their money still being taken as direct evidence as being unlawful to make sure the point is made that this is a REAL issue. So if be any stretch for a miracle i haven't lost you please go the Channel Accursed Farms for the video of his whole plan he's doing a wonderful thing that's still getting updates which shows he's really serious about this so i wanted as many eyes on it as possible but other than that thank you for humoring me and great video as always even if it made me horribly depressed for a second there!

[@MistahMex]

I find it funny that some indie devs are like massive monster are alot nicer to their fans than some AAA devs like rockstar or nintendo

[@kurisu7885]

One I'd like to add is franchises sitting in the dustbin simply forgotten despite people asking for them. Mystical Ninja and F-Zero just to name a couple, and F-Zero is only in that place because Nintendo seems to think they have to re-invent things with every game. They tell us to just go play the old games and while we do have a way to do that now, kinda, GX is harder and harder to play legit.

[@montyturner6511]

Great video. Also screw cloud gaming. And that preservation of games are important. Hopefully we can do something about this.

[@KrimsonKattYT]

Nintendo and SEGA are the best! Every other company sucks balls. Indies are also good including pseudo-indies like WayForward and Falcom. Western AAA gaming is quickly dying due to corporate greed, but Nintendo and SEGA are doing better than ever!

[@DibbzTV]

Will?? It’s already too late

[@matthewjohnson9714]

Companies focusing on DEI and/or lying to gamers may also kill the industry.

[@marshallw1902]

There's legitimate issues going on, stop forcing this cheap DEI narrative as one of the reasons why, it shows how much little you applied in this and just echoing nonsense other chodes put out.

[@Saltyoven]

DEI in a derogatory manner is just chud code for n-words

[@nerdrage3626]

Ok, i dont wanna play "Devil's Advocate" here, but it seems like no one actually KNOWS what a Budget IS within the Entertainment Industry! So, ya know how We as everyday people have to pay for things like, Rent/Mortgage/Property Tax, Utilities (Water, Electricity, Gass, & Internet), every Month, and ya know how we have to... Buy Food?! Well... so do people within the Entertainment Industry! But the difference is, that a Piece of Entertainment, weather it's a Video Game, a Movie, a TV Show, or even a Book, takes a while to Make, and be made available to the Public for Purchase to make a Profit! But do you think the people who Collect these Bills/Taxes care about That?! NO! You gotta Pay On Time, Every Month! So what a Budget is, is essentially a Company being Pre-Paid so they can cover their Monthly Living Expenses during whatever Duration of Time they have to Make the Product! Sure, portions of the Budget are also used to Upgrade the Hardware/Software within the Studio, and for Film & TV there are things like Paying for Location, and Celebrities, which, Celebrities can also apply to a Video Game Budget too. But the Majority of the Budget is covering Living Expenses! It doesn't Cost A Million Dollars to Code at a Computer, but it DOES Cost A Million Dollars to have the TIME to Code! The Real Problem stems from whenever they're not given enough Time to Utilize the entire Budget, or if the Budget doesnt cover the proper amount of Time needed to make the Product Correctly! (Given that at the Beginning of most Productions, the Budget is more-or-less an Estimate) which is where Crunch happens, which IS a Problem, ABSOLUTELY! Maybe instead of using a certain Budget to make One Big Game, in the span of 3-5 Years, use the Same Budget to make a bunch of "Smaller" Games? But that can Still result in Crunch Time, cause now they're spreading themselves too Thin! And maybe there's a chance that one or more of those Smaller Games don't Sell well, and they don't make the Budget Back! There's still a Huge Risk involved! Look, i dont have the Solution, i never claimed i Did! And maybe there ISN'T one, or Hopefully, at lease not Now! But to assume the problem is just the Blanket Statement of "Money" is a GROSS Misunderstanding of it!

[@AnAngelineer]

Big video games with crazy graphics? Sure. They might "die" (which really means there will be less of them). But with the indie scene, there will still be a good flow of less fancy, but still very fun games. There will be more than enough left to fill our days, even after an industry crash. Games might "go back technologically a decade or two" because they will be made by small teams rather than big AAA studios, sure. But we have so many examples of indie games and 10-year old games that are very much beloved and that people still play to this day, despite their technical limitations. A solo dev can make a PS1/N64 level game alone nowadays, and this pretty much guarantees the survival of the medium. Even if it is fairly likely video games will regress because big budgets will become increasingly rare, they certainly won't die. ...Unless, you know, we get a full-blown apocalypse and can no longer have personal computers/smartphones/electricity. But then survival will become the big issue, and we won't really care about video games anymore!

[@shyguykid7935]

It's all about money these days. It makes companies completely unrecognizable.

[@JDLupus]

Indie game development is the utopian future of gaming and I will die on this hill.

[@3ftninja132]

9:27 Anyone know what this is/will be??

[@joshualighttime604]

This is what happens when you give money and power to the wrong people

[@flipadoodles8677]

number 1. AI art - _ -

[@Cheezitnator]

Shareholders ruin game studios. They've turned art and passion projects into speculative souless products that must make unlimited money or get the ax.

[@Tribow]

The only thing that will kill the video game industry is if people stop buying indie games.

[@ashtiboy]

hey we allready had this in the 1980. it will happen agen in like 2030 or soething for all teh AAA games and make much more room for inde games but apple, microsoft, linux and valve will allways moslty come out moslty unscaved. but sooner or later all teh AAA game cpmonys will fall due to teh 8k craze is exactly like the atari 1600 craze before it but its just not sustable.

[@JABRIEL251]

Yeah the effect of capitalism on the industry is a huge problem to say the least.

[@Wizardofslimes]

I was worried Rabbidluigi was about to start saying some weird shit when I read the title but yeah this all tracks.

[@shawnheatherly]

Well, that was a heavier video than I expected. Still, quite important.

[@Moon525]

Solution, it all Indie. Quality media seems to be heading there.

[@shadowlinkbds]

Yeah, the video game industry has seen better days. Much better days....

[@WillTBear1]

I believe the sun exploding would be very bad for the videogame industry...

[@C.A.A93]

Did you make this video in response to the HellDivers PSN account kerfuffle or is this a happy coincidence

[@mochiman6307]

Is that ai art?

[@beterbomen]

Basically, this is a roundabout way of saying that what will kill the "Game Industry" (in quotes because this will only kill a few very public triple A companies) is the idiots at the top. Their insane lust for money is what will destroy these companies, and they'll take off laughing.

[@stormstrider]

tl:dr for the video CAPITALISM BAD solution, avoid AAA games and start looking for indie companies or higher end companies that avoid venture capital.

[@petros-v4w]

Video game industry is already destroyed

[@opera707]

I just play retro games now. New ‘AAA’ games are so sad now

[@jonahabenhaim1223]

I’d would switch to Indie games. Excluding the horror genre and Rouglikes

[@404Errored]

I can name plenty of major published games from each year that are worth your time. I find AAA gaming (even if i think the phrase is stupid...) does give us a lot more quality then people give it credit for, just a simple case of actually getting the games worth a damn out the pile. Disappointingly for this year all I've seen that's had my interest in this field is just 1 single game so far when it comes to that where it's just been indie games otherwise. To be fair though, said game is currently my game of the year so i suppose that counts for something.

[@opera707]

@@404Errored i've just been enjoying my time diving into older PS2 titles on my console. My current Game of the Year is an underrated gem called Rogue Galaxy.

[@404Errored]

@@opera707 and i would argue it's definitely not worth dodging all of modern gaming for what it gets wrong. Especially when all the bullshit is really easy to dodge.

[@404Errored]

​@@opera707Btw i only count game of the year material if it's from the present year.

[@Zanji1234]

sorry but the PRICE of a new game will not be the end of videogames considering there are PLENTY who will buy the super special awesome edition day one with early accesss for 100 plus dollars. It's just.... actually not really necessary to buy games on release and full price since the next sale is just around the corner

[@mapoleoncopypaste7764]

two words. Corporate greed

[@EsmeAmelia]

You forgot microtransactions.

[@phantomhurricane666]

microtransactions.

[@DataDrain02]

Ah, so that's why you used an AI generated thumbnail. To show your point about AI being a bad thing. Fair enough. I was worried you just did it because it's easy (and extremely ugly/uncanny valley).

[@nashdash6404]

Let it happen.

[@BenVSA]

Woo! Time to doom scroll! Seriously. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if we hit another crash in the market come the next five years.