7 Deadly Video Game Sins - Sloth!

7. Asset Flipping

You can't really talk about laziness in gaming without addressing the sheer amount of asset flipping that goes on within the industry. Now it's a common trend within video game developing circles to outsource some of the asset creation for your game; with deadlines to meet you might have to rely on others to create animations, character models, or textures for you to plug back into the main experience.

However as has been shown many times over, this can lead to some developers copying designs that can land them into a tonne of hot water. Fortnite is routinely criticized for its dance animations which seems to be lifted from other sources, tattoo artists are constantly having to remove their artwork or receive some form of compensation when it appears in a create a player suite, and of course, there are those that simply buy from generic packs available online to drop into this game, creating an experience where you might have seen the same building or object thousand times over.

This gets especially lazy when some developers EXCLUSIVELY purchase these assets, plug them into a game, and call it a day. This shovel-ware approach has tarnished platforms like Steam with the same look and feel being replicated for a cheap payday. While it's brilliant to see people trying to get their vision to market, the sheer laziness on show by a select few is ruining the reputation of the majority.