Well said. It saddens me that people are still buying it. For every good AAA release there are like 10 horrible ones. I guess it keeps the indie scene alive.
We’re long past the point of video games being developed and financed by true passionate of the craft. From the very top, investors and executive, down by the designer and to the developers, you have entire stacks of people who don’t give a shit about the game they’re making, or video games in general. It stopped being the case almost 2 decades ago when big money realized gaming r.o.i potential.
That being said, AAA games are so easy to ignore. We can almost pretend gaming has never been this good based on indie games alone.