{"id":787,"date":"2024-12-27T21:51:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T21:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naujienaplius.lt\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/game-industry-predictions-for-2025-the-deanbeat\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T21:51:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T21:51:32","slug":"game-industry-predictions-for-2025-the-deanbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naujienaplius.lt\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/game-industry-predictions-for-2025-the-deanbeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Game industry predictions for 2025 | The DeanBeat"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n
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This year\u2019s best prediction for the game industry in 2025 already came from Swen Vincke, CEO of Larian Studios, maker of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, the Game of the year in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At The Game Awards this year, Vincke got to announce the new Game of the Year (Astro Bot), and he made a prediction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe oracle told me that the Game of the Year 2025 is going to be made by a studio who found the formula to make it up here on stage,\u201d Vincke said. \u201cIt\u2019s stupidly simple, but somehow it keeps on getting lost. A studio makes a game because they want to make a game they want to play themselves. They created it because it hadn\u2019t been created before. They didn\u2019t make it to increase market share. They didn\u2019t make it to serve the brand. They didn\u2019t have to meet arbitrary sales targets, or fear being laid off if they didn\u2019t meet those targets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The audience erupted into applause at his words, and he was not drummed off the stage for taking too much time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added, \u201cFurthermore, the people in charge forbade them from cramming the game with anything whose only purpose was to increase revenue and didn\u2019t serve the game design. They didn\u2019t treat their developers like numbers on a spreadsheet. They didn\u2019t treat their players as users to exploit. And they didn\u2019t make decisions they knew were short-sighted in function of a bonus or politics. They knew that if you put the game and the team first, the revenue will follow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swen Vincke is studio head at Larian, maker of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He closed with, \u201cThey were driven by idealism, and wanted players to have fun, and they realized that if the developers don\u2019t have fun, nobody was going to have any fun. They understood the value of respect, that if they treated their developers and players well, the same developers and players would forgive them when things didn\u2019t go as planned. But above all they cared about their games, because they love games. It\u2019s really that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to my own comments here. I wish the industry would follow that logic. As a bonus, here\u2019s my tips and tricks for CES 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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