Commander Gaming
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MegaCon Orlando is February 6-9th, and The Rippaverse will be there and joined by many of our friends! Get your tickets and come say hi!
If I can chime in on this conversation: What we are seeing is the Old Guard and Entitled realize they no longer have control of the industry. Means have been decentralized and nobody, veteran or not, can dictate who can create. "Independent" does not mean "guy/gal that worked in the mainstream for decades, finally doing their own thing." They treat "indie" like it's a cabal or mafia that get to decide who is legitimate and who gets to create. They treat it like it's some elitist club. They treat it like a fixed pie which reeks of socialistic/communistic nonsense and lack of economic understanding. In other words, they think because someone supports another creator, less people will support them. THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF INDEPENDENT. That is why they tried to shift to this "quality" debate when they were outperformed by young talent. And that "quality" debate comes from the same line of thinking: Only the "pros" or the anointed get to decide what's good and what's not. The truth is, ONLY the market decides and once it speaks, it speaks. It does not care about how hard you work, how long you worked in the mainstream, or who cosigns your effort. For a decade, when fans took it to social media and video platforms to voice their complaints on the industry, they were told to shut up and do their own thing. So, many took them up on that. Many failed, but others have created successful properties through unconventional means (See: @TheRippaverse and @iconic_comics). It is silly to find there to be a problem when they stopped being critics and started being DOERS. Yes, there's a difference between someone trying to do a one-off comic... and building an actual comic book company. But either way, the market will decide the staying power. Everybody in the comic book industry needs to understand that this is the future. It's not even about "influencers." It's about people being able to create without going through the 'proper channels'. Every single entertainment industry is going through this same adjustment. It happened in Music, it's happening in gaming. There are going to be people that produce what the marked finds as GOOD, that were not spit-out by the mainstream industry. Their business strategy will be unique and unconventional. You're eventually (including me), going to get outperformed by someone you deemed as an amateur by classic standards. But you don't get to decide who is undeserving. Pushing back on this just makes you look like a bitter elitist. Someone else's success is not the reason for your lack thereof. Instead, get out there and get to work. Most importantly, embrace and adjust to the market. You can't speak your prominence into existence.
Former PlayStation studios boss Shuhei Yoshida says fans should support remasters if they want first-party PS5 games 🎮 “Single-player games now cost so much, so they need additional income by doing remasters and porting to PC to be able to do that" (via @KindaFunnyVids)
A live-service ‘GOD OF WAR’ game has just been cancelled by Sony. (Source: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…)
