Gemini73 wrote:I haven't read Edge in quite some time so don't know how it comes across these days, although it would be interesting to see why they think the industry is in crisis.
Opening of the article...
Amid scandal over loot boxes and aggressive monetisation, players are struggling to put their trust in videogames. Can Keita Takahasi and a new wave of indie developers make the world a better place?
They obviously single out Battlefront II and the coverage they gave it, saying that they would have been better off giving preview coverage to a game you'd never heard of, that you might have been excited about.
Really though its nothing new. There have always been big games that disappointed or didn't offer value for money, I'm not totally sure how EDGE (or anyone) is supposed to know a game is going to be aggressively monetised to the detriment of gameplay, before its actually released.