Games Publishers, Let me pay More for Less!
I just finished Alan Wake 2, and while it's a pretty good game this took me well over a year.
It's not (mostly) because I'm still not that great with a Xbox controller. It's a long game and I'm pretty busy. Astonishingly at the end it wants me to play the whole thing again, which seems to be a bit of a trend. It also wants to sell me expansion packs which is completely missing my section of the market.
I would happily pay you twice as much if the game was half as long.
Sadly I'm a completionist and I'm not going to stop halfway through unless the game is bad (e.g. No Man's Sky. I already have a job. I'm not going to find and smelt minerals to weave wiring to eventually twenty hours later turn the light on in my space cabin). But I'd love to play more than one game a year.
Also, making more content is lazy. Taking a scalpel to your plot and getting to the essential core of the story takes skill and guts.
Publishers, please take my money!
(PS, man, I loved Firewatch. More like that please.)
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(Published to the Fediverse as: Games Publishers, Let me pay More for Less! #etc #games Games are too long, and there is plenty of fat to cut to make premium short versions for the time poor. Please. )
