Lately I’ve been seeing a meme spread Online with greater prolificity every day. It’s a slogan over some glitchy visuals, makes for a real good bumper sticker:
I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who were paid more to work less and I’m not kidding.
A lot of folks I follow in video games media have shared it. So have a lot of folks I follow in video game development. Hell, I’ve shared it. Something about it has been bothering me, though.
My parents were magazine publishers in the motocross industry from the late 1990s to the late 2000s. One of their friends/colleagues/competitors/enemies had a slogan he liked to say:
It’s only a party if everyone’s invited.