if its so successful surely you have no reason to lay anyone off.

Because these companies never layoff employees when they have successful games. Sure

"Horizon is a high-quality game series that is really popular but has absolutely zero cultural impact."

Yeah that

something can be successful or deemed a success and also not financially viable

that is WHY THEY ARE REMASTERING IT TO SELL IT AGAIN get people playing it again trying to make it a TV SHOW , MOVIE, LEGO GAME , MERCH

to make it much more than what it is

I am in agreement with you that in the MOMENT its successful

BUT ITS NOT SUCCESSFUL ENOUGH FOR WHAT THEY WANT FROM IT BASED ON INVESTMENT

I swear y'all can read.

And that's fine

In Sony's mind its not.

you still upset at me trolling and calling you anti developer

if the game was successful enough they would not be trying to sell you the franchise in 6 different ways

if it was sustainable to produce at the rate it was they wouldnt be like here goes a ghost tv show, game, movie here goes a last of us tv show, merch , game

they know they can only produce it at a rate of so long and it takes sometimes 5-6 years in between games

so yes its "successful" but the longer development times are expensive which is why you have smaller projects and other ways to keep people engaged with the franchise in some form

acting like Horizon the sales INCLUDE BUNDLING IT WITH A PS5

Horizon the player count includes PEOPLE BOOTING IT UP ONCE ON PLUS

I am not saying its a failure by any means. I am saying for the amount invested in it star power wise, mocap technology , graphics all of that yes they want it to catch on because they put a lot of work into it

That is why Guerilla games isnt going to a new ip or back to killzone yet or for forseeable future

Just coz some ppl in KTT decided its average doesn't mean it doesn't have cultural impact.

"trolling"

y'all call any dumb or wrong statement you make "trolling" or "sarcasm"

how do you define cultural impact from a game that rips from other games and barely has a soul of its own?

I never seen mfs mad at a success so damn much

its cool dude, you're just seeing it from an insiders perspective.

you're talking about your career and the industry you work in

we're talking about our hobby so of course there's gonna be a bit of disconnect

That being said its insane that we live in a world where a movie has to make a billion dollars and have franchise potential to make sequels financially viable, but people somehow don't think the same things apply to video games?

yes, calling a person that works on game development anti dev is an obvious troll comment to anyone that isn't a moron

you're the easiest user to trigger and bait on the whole site because you have the awareness of a rock

how on earth would you take that as a serious comment when it was illogical to begin with, are you that dense

Video game industry and movie industry blended way too much together

you guys are morons though

your profile picture is literally the weeknd in front of a p****

you want me to think you are smart?

it's all gonna just be media in 10 years

movie games

your final question is all I am getting at. You don't have to be any sort of insider to ask yourself why the gaming industry has record layoffs and profits at the same time

Again, just coz you dont f*** with it, doesn't mean the entire world doesn't.

It's an open world game. It's gonna have elements that exist is alot of open world games ofcourse lol. That doesn't mean the combat, world and main character aren't unique in their own way.

what about Horizon shifts the culture you are saying it had cultural impact I am asking where are the horizon clones or cultural impact

i have no problem with you, but i don't think you're being very cool here.

Let bro live

like...you're trolling an autistic guy on the internet? cool dude! are you doing it for imagined entertainment of people in this thread,

or are you sitting in your deskchair so desperate for human connection that you don't even care anymore if it's negative.

they all think they are so cool til a Nigga says they do it for internet clout

Yeah he's very much missing the point of cultural impact vs. financial success but I'm too lazy now to get into it

s*** just lazy