Just lost wmr to windows updates too, I’d expect more shit like this now that theyre better monopolized

So?

Doesnt mean expensive ones are an instant success either, if anything I’m agreeing with you that graphics are irrelevant to sales

Honestly looking at the most popular games, I dont think graphics matter to even 1% of gamers. Minecraft, Terraria, lethal company, baltro, among us, all have the graphical quality of a 2 year old drawing.

Publishers are just spending a million to underpay artists solely because ‘graphics’ worked back in the ps2-ps3 era, so theyre still hitting that slot machine hoping for the same returns.

Edit to add: tunic, factorio (technically) Tetris, temple run, hill climb racing, Wii sports (arguably nindendos entire style until recently), human fall flat all have incredibly cheap graphics

I could honestly see this as one of the few legit uses for LLMs.

Throw some data ino it and make some “natural text” to obfuscate it.