The Dark Future of Gaming?

[Head of Desserts]

All games have been digitized. All carts and discs have been requisitioned by the government. To see the ending of a game you must pay money. To unlock more parts of the story, you must pay money. You must buy more ammo with real money.

To buy a Mature rated game (that has been censored to oblivion), you must fill out a lot of paperwork and wait 3 days to have the game.
All the men and normal nice women who work in the video game industry have been executed. Feminists now control the industry.

Retro games and emulators have been incinerated, like when Nazis did with book burnings.

All violence and mature themes have been censored.

There are no new ips, just the same rehashed content. The industry is saturated in first person shooters.

Consoles will costs 1,000 dollars now.

EA and Activision are more powerful than the government.

Mario is dead. Sonic is dead. Megaman was brought to life for a second, then killed again.

/bleak

[tiamaxwell]

1st I would take a few down with me if they came for my games.
2nd Gamers as a whole need to realize the power they have in the industry. As the consumer you shouldn't keep buying games from devs who are making garbage and including features that are detrimental (DRM).
3rd with options like steam and the like, on PC at least, Indy devs are making some nice stuff.

we can't keep supporting games that come out buggy and force us to pay more for the whole game. If we keep doing so there will be no one to blame but ourselves. For instance, I have not and will not buy an xbone because of what they tried to pull. My fiance use to love the assassins creed games but hasn't been able to finish assassins creed 3 because of a bug in the main missions. Don't bother about the newest one. 

Also feminists are not the game developers customers so why would they want to pander to them? I would not worry about that to much as that problem because as soon as they release a SJW friendly game it will flop.

All the laws you mentioned seem unenforceable.

but I will agree the state of the current gen is sad. xbone's failure, Ps4 with no games that convince me to buy it, and No decent new PC games. The only system I have liked so far is the WiiU because I can actually play multiplayer games with friends in my own home without them having their own games and hardware. I have noticed Nintendo lately focusing on paid DLC which I don't like. The instant I need to pay for DLC in a zelda game is the day I quite buying new games. (hyrule warriors doesn't count)

[BadChad]

The instant I need to pay for DLC in a zelda game is the day I quite buying new games. (hyrule warriors doesn't count)

You may want to prepare yourself for that sometime in the near future.

I'm a pretty die hard Zelda fan myself and DLC is the last thing I'd like to see become of a part of it. But like you mentioned, Nintendo is certainly showing more and more interest in the DLC crazy as of late. And since it seems like Nintendo is actually putting some effort into pushing this one into the next gen with higher quality graphics and a more open world with more freedom. So it certainly wouldn't be totally crazy to see them add DLC for it down the line too. But I'm really hoping they stay away from that, especially with the Zelda series. *fingers crossed*

[SegaNomadman]

I'm only ever against DLC if it is NECESSARY to complete the game. New tracks in Mario Kart or things like extra characters are fine with me, they're just trying to add options for people that want them, not forcing people to buy them. I ABSOLUTELY hate games that are pay to play or pay for faster completion. This is why the mobile phone games just don't appeal to me.

[TDIRunner]

I'm only ever against DLC if it is NECESSARY to complete the game. New tracks in Mario Kart or things like extra characters are fine with me, they're just trying to add options for people that want them, not forcing people to buy them. I ABSOLUTELY hate games that are pay to play or pay for faster completion. This is why the mobile phone games just don't appeal to me.

This.

[Gutling]

I believe dlc originally started out as something good. They maybe did not have time to fit something in the game, or it was buggy with it and they removed it. Then later they got it to work and released it

But now I firmly believe they are holding back parts of the game to sell as dlc. When you purchase a game, you should get the whole game. This is a scam.

I hate the environment dlc, ubisoft and similar companies have created. I do not see it getting better in the future, only worse. They are a joke, and it saddens me to see so many people supporting them and buying their products. This is going to make sure they continue churning out unfinished games.

[LilithCathcart]

The idea that the world's governments would all come together to hunt down all the video game carts and discs is dumb. It's just dumb.

Microtransactions are shit, you're not wrong about that, and they are still happening, but to assert that you'll have to pay for EVERY game's ending and ammo is dumb.

The tide on censorship in countries like Australia is turning slowly, they now have an 18+ rating. No, the GTA V shit doesn't count, because that wasn't the actual government. Their actual government already allowed its sale, where they probably wouldn't have five years ago. As for America, censorship is ludicrous, they're not doing it and there's no reason to believe they start.

I hope feminists take control of the game industry, that would be a great thing. But that's not going to happen either.

Retro games aren't going to be incinerated. Why would you even begin to think that would happen?

Modern games are getting more and more violent, not less.

More new IPs are still coming out.

FPS saturation exists, but it's not total.

Wait, EA and Activision are-

oh, this is a troll post. You got me. You got me, troll.

[SegaNomadman]

I believe dlc originally started out as something good. They maybe did not have time to fit something in the game, or it was buggy with it and they removed it. Then later they got it to work and released it

The FIRST DLC.

[TDIRunner]

I believe dlc originally started out as something good. They maybe did not have time to fit something in the game, or it was buggy with it and they removed it. Then later they got it to work and released it

The FIRST DLC.

Ha!

No kidding.

[razielleonhart]

this is also DLC not some guy or weapon

[Thom Grayson]

this is also DLC not some guy or weapon

There's an interesting question - in what practical sense are old-style expansion packs different than modern DLC?

I think the difference is one of scale. Something that doubles the size of the game, with many unique (IE, not-reused from the base game) elements, well, it's harder to argue that Brood War 'should have been part of the game'. Something that adds 3 costumes though...

Although for all I know, the original plan for Starcraft was to release it as a 2-disc game, then they split it up to make more money. So it's a question of... intent? Is that what makes the difference, not amount of content?

For me personally, it's the piecemeal nature of it that bothers me. Getting 5 DLC packs for 2 dollars apiece feels a lot more rip-off-ish than getting a single huge one for 10 dollars.

[Nintendoadvantage]

Remember the old dlc discs for oblivion and Falout 3? Those were always a good deal and I still have them all. I could always redownload my dlc's. Now if I get a new xbox because one dies microshaft gives me hell about liscencing. Ahhh the good old days.