It's less the consoles and more the cultural zeitgeist shifting with the Gamergate, Brexit and Trump. Though the advent of every game being multiplatform probably ruined a lot of the design philosophy and need to experiment.
And going beyond that with gun violence, MeToo, COVID-19, BLM, Stop Asian Hate, Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, etc.
Oh no, that means we won't get any updates about Skull & Bones? Damn shame.
A shame really. And we'll never going to get a new Rayman any time soon
Don't forget the utter collapse of the medium sized game studio in 2007-2011.
The death of non AAA might very well killed gaming. Everything is so static and corporate safe. Even indies are made by discord tranny commitees.
I wish companies such as it would finally fall for dormancy
It's just a
Right of course. So someone, in error, had to make an update to the game where the ad pops up when the map loads, and, in error, had to program the ad to take up the whole screen, and, in error, make it to where you had to manually quit out, and, in error, pushed the update through.
Imagine buying a AAA game for full price then needing to download Ublock Games and other mods to remove the advertisements. Then not being able to update the game software for risk of making your in game ad blockers incompatible. Or the game then telling you in game with popups "Ad blockers are illegal and against the terms of service" and locking you out of your account.
There wasn't just no reason to not experiment with games, there was no reason to make new games at all. This was the era where publishers figured out that MTX was a money printer as stuff like the Celestial Steed made more money than Starcraft 2.
There is now Avatar pre-orders on Epic Games Store, safe to say they rethought this move.
They tried to move away from Tencent and failed, LMAO.
That's because Valve cares and other AAA game corpos don't