If I had made the headline a question then you could invoke Betteridge’s Law of Headlines and just answer “No”. But I made it a statement because I think the proof is fairly robust: the game industry is sick, and not in a good way. Note that I’m not implying that there are no good games or that the industry is collapsing, but rather that the industry is not consistently rewarding the right kinds of behaviour and products. We are seeing good game developers and designers suffer and be driven out of an industry they used to love by poor Executive decision making and excess focus of profit.

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