Poll: What Do You Think Is Currently The Worst Thing In Gaming?

[Nomanslander]

I'll go with DRM. As much as other gamers can seem appalling, we are them and they are us. A society as a whole should be judged by its worst examples, so I can't call out other gamers (especially the foul mouthed CoD types) because I find it hypocritical.

 

[JemothSkarii]

I'll go with DRM. As much as other gamers can seem appalling, we are them and they are us. A society as a whole should be judged by its worst examples, so I can't call out other gamers (especially the foul mouthed CoD types) because I find it hypocritical.

THANK YOU; after walking away from my PC I thought about writing about this but in a longer and grumpier fashion, but yes. If gamers are your reason you have to include yourself amongst them. Because no matter your choices, somebody will think your choices are stupid.

In this community (or any other) everybody should be on equal ground, not blaming everyone else for the mistakes made.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

eh it's a tie between gamers/microtransactions/drm, gamers allow publishers to get away with issues 2 and 3 too much for nickel and diming, but then again alot of gamers don't praise good things enough (honestly there isn't very much positive feedback alot of times on games)

 

[Siyano_v1legacy]

I think I can resume my opinion with one sentence
"It all about MONEY!"
DRM, Micro Transaction, no new ideas, all fits into this opinions

when I see a new pokemon, I just cringe because I know million will buy and I know that this game never received any kind of update whatsoever beside very few tweak apart from graphic!

MicroTransaction, I think Facebook game are the worst here, by asking 1-3$ an hour or wait X amount of hours or blatantly asks 10-15 or even 30$ for virtual decoration!!!!

 

[BearShark]

I feel that too many games that could be great get edged into obscurity because publishers only care about FPSs.

 

[Nazulu]

I could choose 'people' because just about the entire entertainment industry is pathetic right now, but the thing is that percentage of people have always had poor taste and made poor decisions in the past as well, so pointing at them as the problem won't solve anything.

We've had many great pieces of art before with a large variety for everyone so whats the difference now? Fucking publishers and other non-artists getting involved in the creative work that's what! It's up those people to do a good job and win by doing to the best they can without making stupid decisions. Not by finding loopholes or trying to find that one thing that makes a game popular and just rely on that. These people are also responsible for educating don't forget, so they should always treat customers with respect.

 

[Smeggs]

I think 'No New Ideas' is the same as 'Gamer Types', as the reason no new ideas are popping up is because companies aren't that willing to take risks with new IP's due to these stereotypical gamers being a huge money maker.

Either way, I'd say the real problem is the DRM. Soon enough EA will be having people pay full price for both the game and then full price again for the online multiplayer "experience" when they finally get the idiotic notion that they should consider the multiplayer its own game.

Not in the good way where significant time is spent on both, but in the EA way, as in no new effort, just new pricing.

 

[Tarcolt]

DRM or anything that involves internet.

My connection is rubbish at the best of times, let alone when my bandwidth allowance is out.
If i have to log in or connect or something well, Im out of business. Steam, Steam... The good one takes 27 minuets to load(i timed it), Origin just shuts up shop and anything that requieres constant internet connection... well You get the picture.

And they say this is the future of gaming, that its what we all want.

Well no one asked me!

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

I voted for micro-transactions because your DRM entry tried to categorize too much into a single slot.

DRM isn't evil. There has been basic anti disc copy DRM put on CDs for over a decade. It doesn't hurt you, it doesn't stop you from playing your game. It simply stops laymen from copying CDs and giving them to all their friends. Light DRM is perfectly fine, I don't even mind steam because it's less DRM and more service. And when my computer is off the internet, steam goes, hey want to play your games anyways? It's light its forgiving and I have no problems with it.

DRM that slows my computer down, does basically illegal shit like installing rootkits. That's the real problem, and I would have voted for that if you had put it as an option. Fuck tages, fuck securom, and fuck everything Ubisoft tries. But don't pretend like DRM is suddenly wholly evil just because some of it is.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

The companies. Publishers apparently utterly incapable of budgeting titles thus losing money if they don't hit the six million units sold required to turn a profit, and in turn blaming gamers because everyone is a pirate and stealing money from them. Manufacturers pushing out a new console because better graphics equal better games, as proven by this generation because nothing else has really changed from the PS2 era.

 

[bug_of_war]

Gamers - but not the way described.


Because the gaming 'community' contradicts itself on every topic. DRM and always on is bad? Then why the flying fuck is D3 one of the best selling titles for PC? You hate CoD because it is the same but buy the same shit from other companies who never change. You proclaim how games today are worse but deliberatly ignore every shitty game that came out during your favorite timeperiod (this bugs me the most - I recently dug out a gaming magazine from 2000 and god was it full with shitty titles I never even heard about who were obvious copycats from then successfull ones). I could go on but:

The biggest problem in gaming is the gaming 'community'. Because every other problem stems from them alone.

^This basically all the way. I understand that as people we're all going to have differing opinions, but most of the time I see people stating their opinion as fact, and that's what I find annoying. I really wish most people would just say, "In my opinion" before they discuss what they dislike.

 

[MortisLegio]

I vote stupid people. Both the games' industry and the fans are filled with stupid people. Whether it be bad business practices of developers/publishers or the unrelenting defense of said practices by fans, it all comes down to stupid people. Stupid people get mad when their favorite game gets a 7/10. Stupid people write terrible stories that make no logical sense. Stupid people lie to fans of a franchise just to get a buck. Stupid people implement/accept crappy always-online DRM that messes up the game. So I vote stupid people.

 

[Little Gray]

Because the gaming 'community' contradicts itself on every topic. DRM and always on is bad? Then why the flying fuck is D3 one of the best selling titles for PC? You hate CoD because it is the same but buy the same shit from other companies who never change. You proclaim how games today are worse but deliberatly ignore every shitty game that came out during your favorite timeperiod (this bugs me the most - I recently dug out a gaming magazine from 2000 and god was it full with shitty titles I never even heard about who were obvious copycats from then successfull ones). I could go on but:

Yep because we all know that the gaming community is in fact a hivemind and is not made up of millions of individual people with their own opinions and views. Did it ever occur to you that the people bitching about CoD and D3 are hold on this will blow your mind, not the same fucking people?

 

[Fishes]

You know what, I am a happy gamer. I don't think there is a worst thing in gaming. Right now I am bouncing around between Soul Caliber, Impre, Anno, Stardrive, Borderlands 2, Batman, the entire Max Payne franchise, Sins of a Solar Empire, Solar 2, Majesty 2, and Blood Bowl.

I now play video games the way I used to watch TV. I figure out what I am in the mood for, and I put it on. So many options, and I spend less on games then I used to spend on cable. Games have pretty much replaced TV and movies for me. It is even gaining on my oldest hobby, reading.

To me, now is a great time to be a gamer, and the future holds nothing but even more options. Yeah, the Sim City thing might have ticked me off, but I was too busy putting dozens of hours into Anno while listening to a book on tape. It is ever so relaxing. Way too relaxing to be upset about some game I used to play ten years ago struggling with it's reboot.

Key to Nerdvana is a steam account, and an Audible account. Sorry, 4x gamers only

Oh... I bet it might work for you minecraft people to!

 

[Shia-Neko-Chan]

Don't take this the wrong way. I'm not an introvert, but I've gotten pretty annoyed of gamers as of late.

They're trying so hard to be accepted by the mainstream that any and all character designs with sex appeal (well, I should say any and all. pretty much just female character designs) are ridiculed and the creators of such designs are insulted. Care in point, Dragon's Crown. I guess it's supposed to be hilarious how that Kotaku writer decided to refer to the Dragon's Crown designer as "a 14 year old boy".

The community acts automatically dismisses games with sexy character designs as something for the "lowest common denominator" like it makes them more mature or intellectual just because they rejected something for the sole reason of it having sex appeal.

What's even worse is that some will throw the "sexism" or "misogyny" when simply creating a character that looks a certain way has absolutely nothing to do with that whatsoever.

It's all completely unjustified, honestly. Sex appeal is and has never been a bad thing, nor should it be treated as such. If someone does not like a game that has character designs with sex appeal, they could just not buy it and not try to make the people who do like such designs look bad. For example, I don't like that new male swimmer anime "Free" but I'm not going to cry "Misandry!" because of it or try to make myself look superior to its creators or the people who are interested.

It's gotten so bad recently that I've considered not even hanging around gamer message boards.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

There's too many shooters at the moment it would be nice to get some more triple A titles that are exploration, puzzle, dnd tactics, fighter based.

I'm really looking forward to seeing if The Evil Within is actually survival horror because I love that genre.

The fact that my 3DS is quickly becoming my second favorite thing to my PC is not a random occurrence it just has so many INTERESTING games at the moment. Luigi's Mansion and Fire Emblem for example.

 

[Drauger]

Microtransations, I remeber when this was only for mmorpg, it sucked but at least there was a way around it, someone else buys it, then you pay with in ame currency, but now pay to win on a console ugh.........

 

[Daniel Ferguson]

Companions that aren't Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite.

 

[Adon Cabre]

[HEADING=2]This industry is fast heading into BANKRUPTCY and we're still ticked at DRM?[/HEADING]

Are you all for-real? Emily Rogers of NotEnoughShaders has posted an article on the state of console platforms [http://www.notenoughshaders.com/2012/07/02/the-rise-of-costs-the-fall-of-gaming/] that you should all at least glance through after reading this.

Emily predicts with hard stats that the next gen launch will cripple the industry. This last generation of consoles has killed off over 120 Developer Studios. As publishers invest in more Hollywood blockbuster games (ever sure of a grand slam in sales), this industry will turn into a market bubble [https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+a+market+bubble&aq=f&oq=what+is+a+market+bubble&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3j60l2.3710j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8]. This is how the US and Europe hit a freaking recession.

[h4]Just like Congress avoiding the economic
plight of the US, the gaming community and media has turned its attention to more
serviceable, socially trendy problems like sexism in gaming,
or how big-bad DRM is ruining the industry.[/h4]​

[HEADING=3]Triple AAA games have budgets bigger than Movies[/HEADING]
It's a great assumption that when a company sells fewer titles than expected, that it will invest fewer resources into one title; but just the opposite has happened. Because publishers need to watch out for the bottom line (i.e investors), they need to take bigger gambles and have bigger payoffs. And this problem has now been amp'd to a whole new scale as triple-A title costs will skyrocket even higher to cover the new and more complex engines.

[h4]

Not to mention the platforms PS4, PC & Xbox720.
So which console gets the most sales?
Who wins the big chunk of the $?
No one. Yeah, that's smart.​

[/h4]​

[HEADING=3]Prediction[/HEADING]
All 3 next gen consoles will flop as they now have to compete with AFFORDABLE premium smartphones, ultrabooks, laptops, tablets and mid-range pc's -- something the PS3, Xbox360 and Wii did not have to do. I personally got my first cellphone in 2006, and it wasn't until 09' that I finally got a Playstation 3 -- two years after launch.

Another thing: statistics show that consumers choose all of those technologies before even considering a new video game system. In other words, why is mom going to buy her son or daughter a next gen console, when she just bought them a Laptop and Galaxy S4? Or what if she gives them a choice? What's more important: a console, a cellphone or laptop.

What gets you more independence?


Another point Emily makes is that there is no way the next gen titles will sell on those platforms when they are being ported to current gen consoles for the sake of publishers breaking even or even making a profit.

My most anticipated game is Watchdogs, and which is coming out for the PC and PS3, which I both have. The same is happening for Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. So what's the point of a PS4/xbox720?

And the Wii U does even have a Super Mario Galaxy 3 on the horizon!

[HEADING=1]Wii U a bad omen[/HEADING]
The Wii U failed to sell not because of software; but because there is absolutely no need for it in the market place. There is no need for another console to share 3rd party ports with the PC, Xbox360, and PS3 -- and this was what Nintendo was really banking on, 3rd Party Support.

Not only did this console lack any distinctive quality from its last iteration, and not only did it lack a plethora of major exclusive titles, but it missed completely the point of why the industry asks for a next gen console. Affordability of creating technology (Consoles) and software (titles). Neither of these are happening in the next generation. The truth is, Nintendo needed to rush the Wii U out after a steep decline in software sales for the Wii -- and here it is, an ugly mess from top to bottom, and a bad omen for things to come with the next gen platforms.

The Wii failed miserably after that 3 year golden period because their system sellers were terribly paced, coming out within 3 years (Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2) and 5 years (Zelda's Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword) of each other.

You just... don't do that.

Source: www.notenoughshaders.com [http://www.notenoughshaders.com/2012/07/02/the-rise-of-costs-the-fall-of-gaming/]​

 

[Commissar Sae]

Poorly made DRM schemes. I don't like ubisofts invasive DRM, but at least it usually lets me play the games I want to play. The stuff like Simcity or the Diablo III launch are completely unacceptable. All DRM is kind of a pain, but as long as it doesn't actively interfere with me trying to play my game whatever.

Also the lack of ideas, but more on the producer side of things. They keep trying to make profit with failing models, yet they keep using the model. That is a major problem and one that may cause huge problems for the industry in the near future.