probably a fair assessment. the "why are they dying" is kind of shitty and probably needs to be addressed, but if you aren't making a product people want to spend on then down you go. a novel concept in the current America where every billion dollar venture is bailed out but 🤷♂️
Sandy Petersen, the designer of Doom, Quake, Call of Cthulhu, and Age of Empires, responding on social media to fans asking how to save Blizzard:
"We don't need to save Blizzard. We didn't need to save Microsoft or id Software or Ensemble Studios or Atari. We don't need to save ANY game company. If they die, they die. They will be replaced with new, likely superior game companies. Gaming continues."
The man who helped build the foundations of modern gaming says let the industry's legacy studios die. Is he right?