I sent an email to CD Projekt Red

Thanks for the info and the link :)

Well… every empire that rises falls and if Triple A game studios are going to continue with this nonsense they deserve to go the way of the dinosaur. It paves the way for AA games, like what Grummz said in the video, and indie games. Hopefully the employees of these Triple A companies will understand they can be easily replaced and learn not to go the same route again if they start their own company after the AAA game apocalypse that is incoming.

I put an arcade pack of 3 games on Steam and charged $1.99 for the pack. There wasn’t anything ground breaking about any of them. They were meant to be short and fun. They’re the type of arcade games I think kids in grade school would have fun with. I doubt teenagers and adults would find them interesting at all.

The arcade pack included

A breakout/pong clone which combined 2d/3d graphics

A 2D clone of the old “Missile Command” arcade game. Shoot space rocks falling on the space colony. I programmed the buildings to dynamically fall to pieces when they were hit. That was fun.

And the third one involved players driving a pickup truck around a 3D level while avoiding turrets shooting at the player. The objective was to pick up a crate and deliver it to the checkered flag pole and the player would go to the next level. The player could run out of gas and had to drive over gas barrels to fill up. I made it so the turrets and walls would fall apart if the player fired the gun on the truck at them. The player could also drive through the walls and turrets that were damaged scattering pieces everywhere. The 3D graphics of this last game were not that great either; compared to other indie games. My skill is in programming not 3D modeling or animation.

The arcade pack I put on Steam was just some silly fun games I had fun making. The most expensive thing for me was licensing the music tracks. And I spent my own time making the games. In the end I received more money from sales on Steam than I spent developing these simple games.  I was surprised at the amount my silly arcade pack for $1.99 made. I had resigned myself to not get anything from it. I assumed it would be bought a few units at a time each month and therefore I would never see any money from it.

I think it did as well as it did because I put my personal flare in it and had fun making these simple arcade games. And I think that’s a key point in making games. Those designing and making the games need to have fun and be excited for it. How can anyone have fun and be excited about killing the heroes of the Justice League and/or putting those “white boys” in their place with woke messaging? It’s obvious to me if I were to make an arcade pack for kids and put feelings of malice into it and hope to subvert those kids expectations with some message of how much I don’t like them at the end of each game that would destroy the product and prevent anyone from ever buying any of my products again.

From my experience it’s very obvious people want to play games. People want to have fun. Those Triple A game studios must reek of desperation at this point to take ESG loan money with the condition they must put messaging into the game knowing the customers won’t like it and it will backfire.

I’m now working on bringing a board game to market and an ambitious space sim game that I would want to play. The space sim game will take me several more months, possibly longer, to develop. I’m slitting my time between both projects. The work of an indie dev is never done! And it’s fun so it’s not work :)