He’s been talking about it on Mastodon for quite a while now. It’s a shame.

It’s a shame, but also, there’s billions of games and RPGs out already. The game industry is so oversaturated, it’s not even funny.

And the discoverability pipe is breaking.

• No one reads oldschool curators like RockPaperShotgun anymore. They’re barely afloat.

• Generic algorithmic social media like YouTube tends to snowball a few games.

• Forums are dead. Reddit is dystopian.

That leaves Steam’s algorithm, and a sea of sparsely used solo curators. But there are billions of people ignoring passion projects they’d love, and playing AAAs or phone games instead.

There are dozens of us reading rock paper shotgun!

But yeah, the modern web sucks. It’s all soulless algorithms and profit/rent seeking.

Even if someone tried to make forums again, they’d probably fill up with AI slop.

I mean, many forums are still live.

The problem is engagement. Discord, YouTube, even Lemmy all ping you in your pocket and offer more “instant” dopamine hits than a forum or news site, hence they’ve sucked all the attention.