Task 15

The fate of industry

The game industry in those days is facing a big problem but it has sectors which are evolving. The technology in game industry is growing fast and has the knowledge to use it, and these two are the main good sectors. But the price of that is huge, huge like the development cost of the new-age games.

The game market is growing too, and the gamers have a lot games to see and choose from. So the antagonism is growing too (like the number of released games), faster than the market and the number of the gamers. So, to be more competitive a game company, needs better games and new ideas, in other words the best technology and more creativity which the industry have the first (with a dangerous nature) and looking for the other. Except of these, the have another challenge to face with, the copied games and the freeware games (donate, pay for extra feature, or complete free games). The “problems” are many and the solutions are risky…

How the game industry will win this race?

Well, I don’t really know but I can suspect. The big companies will fall or will take over (because of the competition or the huge debts). And this is not very rare because the history of game industry is full of take over and bankrupts, and maybe that will lead to monopoly markets.
What is for sure is going to survive is the freeware games (because their development is cheap!!) as well as the free-donate-online-games, which they’ll never be as good as the big-companies games, but they will be playable and free. I believe that the solution is the on-line games with monthly fees, because is the only way for the big companies to gain back the money they spent for the game and of course to have profit. Also is a way to win against the “copy” games.

Although, not many companies will exist, because a game which you are paying for it, you should play it regularly (otherwise there is no meaning to pay for it at all!!), and that’s why you cannot play 2-3 games at the same time (and the games are made in a way to keep the player into the game for long periods!). So, each company will have their followers.
Personally I believe that’s the only solution for the computer games; now for the console games, like for the computer games, not many consoles will be in the market, and the have to evolve to on-line-computer consoles (they have already begin!)

The online games are the future! They are the only solution… and where the “money” is!!!

All these will affect the employees. Lower salary, less working places, less creativity, smaller deadlines which means stress and maybe not the best working performance!
I can see myself working with some companies and at the same time working with some colleagues on our on-line game, for which we will be very proud!!!