For some reason, AAA studios have completely deprioritized gameplay. These games are dripping with all sorts of marketing elements that have nothing to do with the substandard gameplay we see everywhere. No clue why they think they can take the "game" out of "videogames", that bit's pretty important.
Majority of collapse is due to studios forgetting basic business. CUSTOMER IS KING Also marketing is borderline brain dead. They keep targeting the 1% modern audience over the general audience.
yup precisely videogame development right now is a giant bubble. inflated by people who see the opportunity to proclaim their voice throughout the medium. problem is the customers don't want to hear those voices or care to, we just want to play good video games. no politics, no social justice points, no talking points, just good video games. triple A companies have the resources to test the waters of this new development and....yeah looks like they're failing. while there are negative aspects to people wanting to scream their ideologies across all mega medias there are also massive positives, like indie game development taking off the way it has the last 10 years and all the INCREDIBLE games we've gotten because of this. not everyone just wants to use the game platform to proclaim balderdash. some want to use the game platform to show that their ideas will indeed make incredible video games, and the gaming community is VERY welcome to this, because again we just want good video games. everything else to FK off
Lots of them are being paid to push an Agenda, just like Ubisoft and that whole Montreal ordeal with SBI. It's being pushed all over the place. But no one is biting, so all they're doing is ruining these companies.
@@RenegadeVash The modern audience is a real thing. It's just that many companies don't know how to appeal to a bigger audience. Baldur's Gate 3 did it. How so you may ask? Cinematic storytelling. It is a big departure from not only BG1 and 2 but Divinity 2. BG3 wouldn't have sold nearly this much if it weren't for the cinematic storytelling and I wholeheartedly believe that.
It's nice to see Cohh do a short news video format, i hope UA-cam algorythm treat it more friendly than it treated Jesse Cox's short news video format.
@futuza He is talking about Jesse Cox who used to have a 5 minutes of news segment. He had to stop because the algorithm did punish him. Even when people watched 100% of a clip it was still only 5 minutes of watch time. According to him the algorithm loves super short or super long videos and not the somewhat short stuff. That's probably what *Tplwtch* is talking about. 🙂
The thing about the shake up in the Corporate Development side is that its allowed the Indie Industry to get a lot of traction and start thriving. Personally speaking, if the people in the AAA space making the poor decisions aren't going to be held accountable for their poor choices, then the companies kinda deserve to take the financial hit.
The irony is that AAA's start buying off indie games/studios and drive them into the dirt, a parade example being risk of rain 2 being bought by gearbox, they somehow destroyed not only the game balance but the entire game engine in a single update.
@@Skittles694 And who is to blame for that? Gearbox? We've known who they are for a long time now. They're a big dumb corporation. Of course they pulled up the money truck. Of course they screwed up the game immediately. A scorpion is a scorpion. For some reason, no one is holding Hopoo accountable for THEIR decision to sell off a beloved IP to a ruthless and incompetent corporation. These were very successful indie devs who CHOSE to sell out, and no one is blaming them for it. Why? The corporations will always have offers you "can't refuse", but you can in fact refuse them. You can choose to forgo a bigger payday in order to protect your IP and do right by the community that supported you and enabled your success. It's not like they were hurting for money, and now they've taken jobs with Valve - you know, the single best employer in the industry. If Hopoo wanted development to continue on RoR2, they could have found a suitable up-and-coming indie dev to take the reins.
Any industry is like a forest: trees die, new trees grow. It takes a layer to decompose, so a new layer can grow on the remains of the former layer. AAA game developers may be in trouble, but there is always a layer underneath it making excellent games. So basically: no worries for the consumer.
Afaik, a lot of the layoffs are due to overhiring during Covid, not only in games but in IT and the entertainment sector in general. Because everyone was stuck. They got massive profits because everyone was stuck inside for two years and for some reason thought that growth would just keep going.
They're taking too long and costing too much money and making games that are worse than ever before (for a variety of reasons) simply coasting on the names of older franchises. Lay-offs are inevitable.
Was curious to hear Cohh's take on their resignation and kinda bummed it wasn't in the vid - definitely a bit of a different situation than the other studios.
amazing , love it here is some suggestions Cohh and the team - plz reduce the music 15-20% (the music choice is great , relaxed and lo-fi ) - if the segment can be done 2x times a week so each ep will be less than 10 min and focus on the thing i personally love cohh talk about which is streaming and business/development side of it - use infromation cards and clips from cohh stream if he played the game (like SQ ) , link his thoughts , put some rating/achivment in the info card like (sold 1 mil in 1st hr or number of players in 1st 24hr in steam is a 100k , things like that) things like that :D , wishing more of this and thanks for the eidtor again
In my opinion there are 2 very huge problems right now in gaming. Problem 1 is the incredibly stupid large amount of games out there. there are so many, soooooo many but sooo many that it's incredibly difficult to find games and good games have a lot of trouble getting to be known. This was the case with our own indie game (Kharon's Crypt) we even tried reaching out to Cohh and not even him answered back. And now, problem 2 is the games in the front and most shown by marketing are just not good. plain and simple.
I quite like this "shorter" and focused talking points video about some game news and such. Hoping to see the Satisfactory Tips video on here sooner or later (take your time to get all the tips you feel you need to have a good video, both Cohh and the team) so I can share them around. Getting those tips from streaming the game collected in one spot would be amazing.
This is amazing and would love to be able to see separate notifications possibly for news posts? I love being able to see things like this to stay in the loop on gaming things!
Where to start: Management and HR hiring people with little to no affinity for games and people who carry mental illness like a badge of honour on social media? Marketing, unable to read the room when it came to estimating the chances of success? Management again with 'ideas' based on marketings 'research' on social media. Hiring consulting firms to (re)write the story of your games. So it ticks all the checkboxes but pleases no one? Game devs and community managers who hate their target audience and make brain dead decision after brain dead decision? Almost everyone working in this idustry would have to share the blame to some degree. A lot of studios and publishers will have trouble surviving this storm. Ubisoft first among them, as it is too late for them to make U-turn and the rot is sitting too deep.
Bloated companies. I was a victim of a layoffs wave last year. The corpos were under impression that post C19 growth will go on for ever. So once they got reality checked it all died. This plus the pathetic state of some of the games these days.
This happened to my work. Different industry im in but Covid surge dropped off a cliff and they had to gut every department. Im still there fortunately
Totally enjoyed the news video/updates on the industry. I would say yes please make more. Oh btw the cat's have to be in each video now. Having that little guy just chill there right in the video was super cute and kind of relaxing when you went through the bad news of the industry that's going on right now.
As far as AAA games goes not running the development into the ground is already an extremely complex challenge, you can't even begin to comprehend how insanely difficult it is to ship a AAA is until you work on one. It's like pushing a snowball down the hill and hope it ended up in the right shape.
The Visions of Mana studio closure was, as you said, in the works for a long time. China is divesting from Japan across the board (possibly due to potential tensions of the military variety on the horizon in the entire region).
I really like this video, i've been following cohh since he/you played Fallout 3, and you from time to time talk a lot about news from video games, so to have a video of all of that talk, is actually really great. Maybe schedule it so its a thing every week, so we viewers know when it's happening. Like Dropped frames is every sunday, and this CNN could have another day of the week.
This new kind of news video is a great idea! 👍 Tiny suggestion, label it explicitly in the title so we can quickly identify if this is a news video or not. Whether you use square brackets or a show title, you decide.
Hello from france, I really like your thoughts on gaming news/drama I only have approximate english, so the youtube format and automatic translation subtitle allow me to have your opinions.
Digital Extremes and Larian still exists, so devs were more willing to emulate their community involvement and handling/implementation of feedback they might experience more success
My wife told me something else. Company 's are investing into freelance groups and making games like this. She sayed that those freelancer devs are way more cheaper and getting way less (salary).
My thoughts and prayers to those game devs loosing their job. 🙏May they land on their feet in another industry where they will face the same thing and not have anyone care because most of us have been there at least once.
First, the editing is top. About the new idea of news, it's fantastic. I speak by myself but I sujest that if you do so, keep an schedule (every 1 week, 2 weeks, monthly, whatever), I tend to lose interest on this news formats if they get irregular (personal opinion).
AAA games used to be too big to fail, now they are getting to a point where it's too big to not fail. Way too many people and too much money involved for a decent game to come out.
Excellent idea! I Really like to know about Cohh's take on whats happening on the gaming world, one of the parts that I miss not being able to watch the stream!
Your short form guys deserve mad props for this idea. It is a great idea and I really enjoyed a 10 min video on gaming news. Please keep doing this sort of thing.
He's also free to comment on what he chose to. You're also free to not engage with him. And he's not a grifter, he's sincere and passionate about things he says.
I think it's funny they have the need to bring up woke when talking about ugly designs these days, just say they're unappealing and ugly, you don't have to start parroting whatever garbage ragebait content you fill your head with. Actually I clicked your channel because of the checkmark and oh look, garbage outrage content.🙃
I think games are in a weird state at the moment. Bigger studios produce usually the same crap year on year trying to "grow" their franchises yet they letgo the wonderful prople who built these franchises up. Take for instance Dragon Age. The old games had a grit and egde to them the newest one just is lacking. Its filled with fantastical collor pallets that would feel at home in a normal fantasy world but clash with the old themes. Not to mention the combat "overhaul" looks to be a massive downgrade. Companies seem to focus on the bs that players dont care for. How does the game feel moment to moment? How does combat feel? How does moving through the world as a playable character feel? Indie studios have been crushing it for the last decade.
I hope you continue to do these sort of short form / at-a-glance / gaming news segments. The space has become littered with click bait, rage bait, thinly veiled ads and all other categories of negativity merchants, so a minimal fluff rundown from a knowledgeable source would be welcome. Please do not be discouraged if the early viewership numbers are not fantastic!
VERY TROUBLE LAUNCH? VERY TROUBLE LAUNCH? This game was tragic and this "VERY TROUBLE LAUNCH" gained so much from being so bad that it couldn't even earn money on itself. Gamedev is a business like any other. Why is no one making a story about people being laid off from car factories? BECAUSE NO ONE FUCKING CARES.
Hi, just saying, you should probably move the "NEW" text in the thumbnail a little bit. It kinda covers the "M" in "Mass" and... i imagine alot of people are going to need to read it multiple times 🤭
It's not so much the gaming industry but the tech industry in general that is rapidly sinking now. As a software engineer I wouldn't even recommend considering a CS degree currently, as you'll unlikely find any jobs and companies are having mass layoffs and downsizing everywhere. This will probably last for years by the looks of it.
Hmm... hot take... I think corporate layoffs are actually a good thing, I mean obviously on a personal level it sucks to lose a job, and I am feeling sorry for people, but... it means that the capitalistic approach to gaming industry failed (as expected, it was not a sustainable approach) and there is going to be a shift to slower more indie passionate development and publishing of games like in the good old days before games became just an asset for Wall Street. So in the end I think people that lost their jobs would quickly be able to find better paying less crunch cultured jobs in smaller companies while consumers will get better quality more focused games. I see that as a win-win situation.
I actually really liked this and I have a bit of feedback on why I said "actually" as well as what I liked and didn't like. I came into this video quite reluctantly as the !CNN command really added a whole lot of baggage that turned me off of the idea. I don't watch CNN but it gave me the impression this would be the same formulaic and empty feeds of "news" and really took away any excitement I had for having the normal, balanced Cohh thoughts on topics I like than I feel I would normally have had otherwise. On another note, please remove or cover the ads on the pages displayed for goodness sake. (Disclosure ~ ADHD brain here) Many times I was trying to listen to Cohh I would find myself distracted by the changing ads and have to go back to regain the thread of the conversation. That said, I really liked the pages where you simply displayed the articles themselves on their own screen and giving links in the description is awesome. Also, sectioning off each topic into chapters was wonderful as well. The last bit of feedback I have is a little abstract. I don't have a good sense of what caused it but I felt exhausted somewhere after halfway into the video. The topics felt like they were just bleeding into one another for some reason. I apologize for not having a better descriptor but I just remember feeling like I needed the topics to have more breathing room which felt really off for watching Cohh talk about his thoughts. All that said, I really did like this more than I thought I would and definitely would like to see more of this as it feels relevant. Cohh's thoughts are a very welcome addition to any news as I find myself more grounded and feel well rounded after coming out of them. As long as it is a more natural thing rather than news for regularity sake, I'm all for this new endeavor now. Best of luck to the team finding the format that works best.
I am glad to see that not buying stuff that people dont like has become a united front and these studios pay for their incompetence, trying to appease for an audience that does not exist. Let's keep it up, lads and lasses. Maybe, one day, they will stop doing what they are doing now. Also, I am tired of immature developers attacking the player base calling them -isms and -ists because we dare not pay for we dont like. I am so tired of them. In the meantime, imma run my 6th bg3 run. Maybe on the 7th I will go Durge again and actually have it in me to be pure evil, not just somewhat evil. I want to live the brutal endings I heard Durge has.
I think this is an awesome idea. I have much stronger preferences to hear news and game info from gamers/Streamers than I do the standard outlets. Also the industry is still going through Post pandemic shrinkage which sucks. That being said, too many investors saw a golden goose with all the pandemic era breakout hits. Unfortunately it was likely to happen at some point. Thanks for posting a news vid!
it sucks for the people at rocksteady and the likes, because they arent the ones coming up with the idea of making "a new fortnite", like a new live service game but with super heroes. But they are the ones taking the punishments for its failure, and that really really sucks
For some reason, AAA studios have completely deprioritized gameplay. These games are dripping with all sorts of marketing elements that have nothing to do with the substandard gameplay we see everywhere. No clue why they think they can take the "game" out of "videogames", that bit's pretty important.
Majority of collapse is due to studios forgetting basic business.
CUSTOMER IS KING
Also marketing is borderline brain dead. They keep targeting the 1% modern audience over the general audience.
@@RenegadeVash the "modern audience" is also why Hollywood is suffering atm except for a few exceptions
yup precisely
videogame development right now is a giant bubble. inflated by people who see the opportunity to proclaim their voice throughout the medium. problem is the customers don't want to hear those voices or care to, we just want to play good video games. no politics, no social justice points, no talking points, just good video games.
triple A companies have the resources to test the waters of this new development and....yeah looks like they're failing.
while there are negative aspects to people wanting to scream their ideologies across all mega medias there are also massive positives, like indie game development taking off the way it has the last 10 years and all the INCREDIBLE games we've gotten because of this.
not everyone just wants to use the game platform to proclaim balderdash. some want to use the game platform to show that their ideas will indeed make incredible video games, and the gaming community is VERY welcome to this, because again we just want good video games.
everything else to FK off
Lots of them are being paid to push an Agenda, just like Ubisoft and that whole Montreal ordeal with SBI. It's being pushed all over the place. But no one is biting, so all they're doing is ruining these companies.
@@RenegadeVash The modern audience is a real thing. It's just that many companies don't know how to appeal to a bigger audience. Baldur's Gate 3 did it. How so you may ask? Cinematic storytelling. It is a big departure from not only BG1 and 2 but Divinity 2. BG3 wouldn't have sold nearly this much if it weren't for the cinematic storytelling and I wholeheartedly believe that.
It's nice to see Cohh do a short news video format, i hope UA-cam algorythm treat it more friendly than it treated Jesse Cox's short news video format.
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I think it does, since I didn't watch him before on youtube ever (only twitch)
The algorithm loves 10 minute news videos, what are you talking about?
@futuza He is talking about Jesse Cox who used to have a 5 minutes of news segment. He had to stop because the algorithm did punish him. Even when people watched 100% of a clip it was still only 5 minutes of watch time. According to him the algorithm loves super short or super long videos and not the somewhat short stuff. That's probably what *Tplwtch* is talking about. 🙂
Jesse Cox's short news video's were great, still sad they had to stop.
Watching from Cohhs basement, said he'll give me bread if a watch this at least 10 times.
Sounds like a good deal
@@UnknownEX0it’s a nice basement.
.......what mod are u cause if ur not a mod u aint allowed in the basement?
What???? I've watched 30 times and didn't even get to touch grass outside. Cohh rules with iron fist
Can you trade me some bread for some butter?
The thing about the shake up in the Corporate Development side is that its allowed the Indie Industry to get a lot of traction and start thriving. Personally speaking, if the people in the AAA space making the poor decisions aren't going to be held accountable for their poor choices, then the companies kinda deserve to take the financial hit.
The irony is that AAA's start buying off indie games/studios and drive them into the dirt, a parade example being risk of rain 2 being bought by gearbox, they somehow destroyed not only the game balance but the entire game engine in a single update.
@@Skittles694 And who is to blame for that? Gearbox? We've known who they are for a long time now. They're a big dumb corporation. Of course they pulled up the money truck. Of course they screwed up the game immediately. A scorpion is a scorpion. For some reason, no one is holding Hopoo accountable for THEIR decision to sell off a beloved IP to a ruthless and incompetent corporation. These were very successful indie devs who CHOSE to sell out, and no one is blaming them for it. Why? The corporations will always have offers you "can't refuse", but you can in fact refuse them. You can choose to forgo a bigger payday in order to protect your IP and do right by the community that supported you and enabled your success. It's not like they were hurting for money, and now they've taken jobs with Valve - you know, the single best employer in the industry. If Hopoo wanted development to continue on RoR2, they could have found a suitable up-and-coming indie dev to take the reins.
Except the people who make the decisions are the ones who will then choose to lay off the developers who are actually trying to make a good game
I like to think he's actually telling all of this to his cat, and we're just eavesdropping.
I swear i can hear him purring around 5:16 while Cohh is talking lol
Any industry is like a forest: trees die, new trees grow. It takes a layer to decompose, so a new layer can grow on the remains of the former layer. AAA game developers may be in trouble, but there is always a layer underneath it making excellent games. So basically: no worries for the consumer.
too many years of treating customers like the enemy, what did these guys expect
Afaik, a lot of the layoffs are due to overhiring during Covid, not only in games but in IT and the entertainment sector in general. Because everyone was stuck. They got massive profits because everyone was stuck inside for two years and for some reason thought that growth would just keep going.
They're taking too long and costing too much money and making games that are worse than ever before (for a variety of reasons) simply coasting on the names of older franchises.
Lay-offs are inevitable.
The entire staff of Annapurna Interactive (the publishing team behind Outer Wilds, Journey, Cocoon, Stray, etc) also resigned.
Was curious to hear Cohh's take on their resignation and kinda bummed it wasn't in the vid - definitely a bit of a different situation than the other studios.
9:01 I'm sorry Cohh I couldn't really concentrate...
Dang. Baldurs Gate went all the way from 3 to 7 just like that? And here I was worried they werent' going to make a BG4
The thumbnail says "New Ass Layoffs" lol.
2... No, 3 things:
1. Love this format.
2. The ad banner on Cohhs browser is kinda funny.
3. Big booba moment behind cohh near the end was also funny
9:15 I love how when Cohh was mentioning the "awesome team of editors" he pointed to the booba. I approve.
6:40 baldur's gate 7 ? i might have missed some of these sequels lol
amazing , love it here is some suggestions Cohh and the team
- plz reduce the music 15-20% (the music choice is great , relaxed and lo-fi )
- if the segment can be done 2x times a week so each ep will be less than 10 min and focus on the thing i personally love cohh talk about which is streaming and business/development side of it
- use infromation cards and clips from cohh stream if he played the game (like SQ ) , link his thoughts , put some rating/achivment in the info card like (sold 1 mil in 1st hr or number of players in 1st 24hr in steam is a 100k , things like that)
things like that :D , wishing more of this and thanks for the eidtor again
Welcome to "Is Game Dev In Trouble - part 1".
Keep these coming Cohh and the editor!
The creative direction on Spectre Divide does not make me want to try the game.
In my opinion there are 2 very huge problems right now in gaming. Problem 1 is the incredibly stupid large amount of games out there. there are so many, soooooo many but sooo many that it's incredibly difficult to find games and good games have a lot of trouble getting to be known. This was the case with our own indie game (Kharon's Crypt) we even tried reaching out to Cohh and not even him answered back. And now, problem 2 is the games in the front and most shown by marketing are just not good. plain and simple.
I like being informed.
Yes please, more of this.
As someone who cannot catch all your streams, I love this for hearing about what you think is happening.
I quite like this "shorter" and focused talking points video about some game news and such. Hoping to see the Satisfactory Tips video on here sooner or later (take your time to get all the tips you feel you need to have a good video, both Cohh and the team) so I can share them around. Getting those tips from streaming the game collected in one spot would be amazing.
This is amazing and would love to be able to see separate notifications possibly for news posts? I love being able to see things like this to stay in the loop on gaming things!
Where to start: Management and HR hiring people with little to no affinity for games and people who carry mental illness like a badge of honour on social media? Marketing, unable to read the room when it came to estimating the chances of success? Management again with 'ideas' based on marketings 'research' on social media. Hiring consulting firms to (re)write the story of your games. So it ticks all the checkboxes but pleases no one? Game devs and community managers who hate their target audience and make brain dead decision after brain dead decision?
Almost everyone working in this idustry would have to share the blame to some degree. A lot of studios and publishers will have trouble surviving this storm. Ubisoft first among them, as it is too late for them to make U-turn and the rot is sitting too deep.
Bloated companies. I was a victim of a layoffs wave last year. The corpos were under impression that post C19 growth will go on for ever. So once they got reality checked it all died. This plus the pathetic state of some of the games these days.
This happened to my work. Different industry im in but Covid surge dropped off a cliff and they had to gut every department. Im still there fortunately
This is nice content, it is short, simple and easy to understand, i'm diggin it
Loved this. Would love to hear more news from you.
Totally enjoyed the news video/updates on the industry. I would say yes please make more. Oh btw the cat's have to be in each video now. Having that little guy just chill there right in the video was super cute and kind of relaxing when you went through the bad news of the industry that's going on right now.
6:32 SUPERVIVE MENTIONED 🥳🎉
"Complex challenges", Aka: Releasing quality product.
Yeah? Like Hi-Fi Rush? Pro Skater 1+2?
Look where those studios ended up.
As far as AAA games goes not running the development into the ground is already an extremely complex challenge, you can't even begin to comprehend how insanely difficult it is to ship a AAA is until you work on one. It's like pushing a snowball down the hill and hope it ended up in the right shape.
Suggestion... start nameing them so first one be episode 1
more of this please.
The Visions of Mana studio closure was, as you said, in the works for a long time. China is divesting from Japan across the board (possibly due to potential tensions of the military variety on the horizon in the entire region).
I like this, weekly eps?
Love it, would be happy to see this video format happen again.
I really like this video, i've been following cohh since he/you played Fallout 3, and you from time to time talk a lot about news from video games, so to have a video of all of that talk, is actually really great. Maybe schedule it so its a thing every week, so we viewers know when it's happening. Like Dropped frames is every sunday, and this CNN could have another day of the week.
This new kind of news video is a great idea! 👍
Tiny suggestion, label it explicitly in the title so we can quickly identify if this is a news video or not.
Whether you use square brackets or a show title, you decide.
Dear Cohh, please close the banner ads or get an adblocker for the pages you look at online, that would be great, thanks
I would love to see more like this
The combination of greed and stupidity makes for one pathetic cocktail of failure.
Bad games being a flop and companies losing money for creating bad products is nature healing itself.
the music volume makes it hard to pay attention
Hello from france,
I really like your thoughts on gaming news/drama
I only have approximate english, so the youtube format and automatic translation subtitle allow me to have your opinions.
Digital Extremes and Larian still exists, so devs were more willing to emulate their community involvement and handling/implementation of feedback they might experience more success
My wife told me something else. Company 's are investing into freelance groups and making games like this. She sayed that those freelancer devs are way more cheaper and getting way less (salary).
My thoughts and prayers to those game devs loosing their job. 🙏May they land on their feet in another industry where they will face the same thing and not have anyone care because most of us have been there at least once.
First, the editing is top. About the new idea of news, it's fantastic. I speak by myself but I sujest that if you do so, keep an schedule (every 1 week, 2 weeks, monthly, whatever), I tend to lose interest on this news formats if they get irregular (personal opinion).
Massive layoffs happen because they had massive hiring during COVID.
The market has been trying to go back to normal.
AAA games used to be too big to fail, now they are getting to a point where it's too big to not fail. Way too many people and too much money involved for a decent game to come out.
Excellent idea! I Really like to know about Cohh's take on whats happening on the gaming world, one of the parts that I miss not being able to watch the stream!
4:30 I wonder if Cohh knows where Visby is located :D
Glad to see gary the prophet wasn't gotten by arasaka and is doing better
a about 10 mins updates and wrap-ups would be really awsome!
Now is the perfect time to create new studios and scoop up talented developers and put them to work on cool new projects
Would love to see more stuff about up and coming developers and their games
Like that format so far. Also like a touch of humor and nice editing work )
Your short form guys deserve mad props for this idea. It is a great idea and I really enjoyed a 10 min video on gaming news. Please keep doing this sort of thing.
Spectre Divide looks woke at a glance. Anti Appeal characters cost games money. You're free to disagree with this fact.
You're free to take your culture war grift somewhere else.
He's also free to comment on what he chose to. You're also free to not engage with him. And he's not a grifter, he's sincere and passionate about things he says.
@@theobell2002 Hi! I detest wokeness and I'd like to get paid for it. Where can I sign up and do I have to move to the west?
I think it's funny they have the need to bring up woke when talking about ugly designs these days, just say they're unappealing and ugly, you don't have to start parroting whatever garbage ragebait content you fill your head with.
Actually I clicked your channel because of the checkmark and oh look, garbage outrage content.🙃
Please look up the definition of grift
I don’t even really follow you anywhere, but I very much enjoyed this and would tune in for future episodes.
Really love this new Cohh news!
I think games are in a weird state at the moment. Bigger studios produce usually the same crap year on year trying to "grow" their franchises yet they letgo the wonderful prople who built these franchises up.
Take for instance Dragon Age. The old games had a grit and egde to them the newest one just is lacking. Its filled with fantastical collor pallets that would feel at home in a normal fantasy world but clash with the old themes. Not to mention the combat "overhaul" looks to be a massive downgrade.
Companies seem to focus on the bs that players dont care for. How does the game feel moment to moment? How does combat feel? How does moving through the world as a playable character feel?
Indie studios have been crushing it for the last decade.
I read that Dan House just hired a bunch of people from a studio that got shut down. Can't wait to see the stuff he's making with his new studio.
I hope you continue to do these sort of short form / at-a-glance / gaming news segments. The space has become littered with click bait, rage bait, thinly veiled ads and all other categories of negativity merchants, so a minimal fluff rundown from a knowledgeable source would be welcome. Please do not be discouraged if the early viewership numbers are not fantastic!
VERY TROUBLE LAUNCH? VERY TROUBLE LAUNCH? This game was tragic and this "VERY TROUBLE LAUNCH" gained so much from being so bad that it couldn't even earn money on itself. Gamedev is a business like any other. Why is no one making a story about people being laid off from car factories? BECAUSE NO ONE FUCKING CARES.
Hope you do more of these.
I appreciate and enjoy your takes and insight, also your objectivity, to have that be a more regular, condensed thing now is very welcome!
Hi, just saying, you should probably move the "NEW" text in the thumbnail a little bit. It kinda covers the "M" in "Mass" and... i imagine alot of people are going to need to read it multiple times 🤭
Cool new thing, I like it.
Thanks for your streams and videos!
It shows a lot that the Visions of Mana team; even knowing they were going to be out of jobs, to go to work and make a great game.
For sure love this format. Cohh's cozy as always vibes, and as per usual awesome editors.
I like this style of video from you. I hope it continues to appear on this channel and not just the other channel in the future.
I love this format, hopefully you do more of it! Definitely will watch every single one of these!
It's not so much the gaming industry but the tech industry in general that is rapidly sinking now. As a software engineer I wouldn't even recommend considering a CS degree currently, as you'll unlikely find any jobs and companies are having mass layoffs and downsizing everywhere. This will probably last for years by the looks of it.
Should call it the "Cohhversation"
Love to see more Cohh News! AAA game dev is definitely in a real rough state mostly due to all kinds of ridiculous corporate decisions.
Hmm... hot take... I think corporate layoffs are actually a good thing, I mean obviously on a personal level it sucks to lose a job, and I am feeling sorry for people, but... it means that the capitalistic approach to gaming industry failed (as expected, it was not a sustainable approach) and there is going to be a shift to slower more indie passionate development and publishing of games like in the good old days before games became just an asset for Wall Street. So in the end I think people that lost their jobs would quickly be able to find better paying less crunch cultured jobs in smaller companies while consumers will get better quality more focused games. I see that as a win-win situation.
I actually really liked this and I have a bit of feedback on why I said "actually" as well as what I liked and didn't like.
I came into this video quite reluctantly as the !CNN command really added a whole lot of baggage that turned me off of the idea. I don't watch CNN but it gave me the impression this would be the same formulaic and empty feeds of "news" and really took away any excitement I had for having the normal, balanced Cohh thoughts on topics I like than I feel I would normally have had otherwise.
On another note, please remove or cover the ads on the pages displayed for goodness sake. (Disclosure ~ ADHD brain here) Many times I was trying to listen to Cohh I would find myself distracted by the changing ads and have to go back to regain the thread of the conversation. That said, I really liked the pages where you simply displayed the articles themselves on their own screen and giving links in the description is awesome. Also, sectioning off each topic into chapters was wonderful as well.
The last bit of feedback I have is a little abstract. I don't have a good sense of what caused it but I felt exhausted somewhere after halfway into the video. The topics felt like they were just bleeding into one another for some reason. I apologize for not having a better descriptor but I just remember feeling like I needed the topics to have more breathing room which felt really off for watching Cohh talk about his thoughts.
All that said, I really did like this more than I thought I would and definitely would like to see more of this as it feels relevant. Cohh's thoughts are a very welcome addition to any news as I find myself more grounded and feel well rounded after coming out of them. As long as it is a more natural thing rather than news for regularity sake, I'm all for this new endeavor now. Best of luck to the team finding the format that works best.
I am glad to see that not buying stuff that people dont like has become a united front and these studios pay for their incompetence, trying to appease for an audience that does not exist. Let's keep it up, lads and lasses. Maybe, one day, they will stop doing what they are doing now.
Also, I am tired of immature developers attacking the player base calling them -isms and -ists because we dare not pay for we dont like. I am so tired of them. In the meantime, imma run my 6th bg3 run. Maybe on the 7th I will go Durge again and actually have it in me to be pure evil, not just somewhat evil. I want to live the brutal endings I heard Durge has.
So glad to get tuned in to the Cohh News Network. But honestly, I enjoy your insights into gaming. Stay tuned to CNN!!!
Net Ease shutting down Japanese studios has NOTHING to do with the old Chinese v Japanese clash.... Yah couldn't possibly be related.
I love this format of news about games and the gaming industry. Very informative in a neat package. More of this please I love it 👍
Awesome idea Cohh, love to see new elements added in your channel, especially when they are this informative and overall helpful!
Love these videos Cohh hope you guys make more of them
I think this is an awesome idea. I have much stronger preferences to hear news and game info from gamers/Streamers than I do the standard outlets. Also the industry is still going through Post pandemic shrinkage which sucks. That being said, too many investors saw a golden goose with all the pandemic era breakout hits. Unfortunately it was likely to happen at some point. Thanks for posting a news vid!
All open world multiple Boss games or very popular like elden ring, black myth W,Lies of p,etc
Good game= money
Shit game= no money
For me it's very simple
The only thing bad about space marines 2 is pvp
This is the gaming bubble bursting... hopefully we get new creative amazing games once all the dust settles
Unionize.
Great content. Like the short form quick fire style.
it sucks for the people at rocksteady and the likes, because they arent the ones coming up with the idea of making "a new fortnite", like a new live service game but with super heroes. But they are the ones taking the punishments for its failure, and that really really sucks
So much bad management in the gaming industry and the devs are taking the hit for it.
Wonder went are gonna see a layoffs of executives
No comments on new vids
Well, well, well… prioritizing monetization over making games ppl want to play doesn’t work long term. Prioritizing 8%er content doesn’t work either.
Lovely format, keep it going!
Excellent video!! I do really enjoy this type of content for sure. Please keep them coming
I like these types of videos it's like the only thing I watch on UA-cam, gaming news and general internet news.