10 Gaming Industry Issues That Must Die With This Generation

No industry is perfect, but some are more flawed than others. And the gaming industry is one of the most flawed of all, even compared to the likes of film.

Sure, there's plenty to love about the state of gaming right now, but the things that ARE wrong with it are so huge, they negate pretty much all of them.

Every day you hear a new horror story about workers being abused, customers being taken advantage of, and the gaming industry generally being a prime example of capitalism's worst instincts made real.

Rampant greed and a lack of accountability has given way to a million smaller problems that need to be solved before we can get to those larger, more nebulous ones.

So, we're focusing squarely on the issues with the gaming industry that we can feasibly fix between the rest of this generation and the next - some of which might already be on their way out.

I doubt it, but they might be.

All new industries stumble when they first really get going, but the gaming industry has done more in less time than most others.

This has created a ton of fascinating talking points all of us have some stake in, but how will things pan out moving forward?

Physical media is by no means perfect, but it allows us to hold and own something that could otherwise just be taken away on a whim.

There's nothing quite like it, to be honest. Knowing that unless YOU damage, lose or sell the thing you own, no one can truly take it away from you.

And if you've recognised the above image, you know exactly where this is going.

Because recently, game companies have been releasing more and more games exclusively through their online stores. And PC games have all but abandoned physical media altogether in favor of selling online.

Of course, the main problem here is that if - for whatever reason - that store cannot sell that game anymore, pretty much everyone is screwed.

P.T. was set to be the demo for the next Silent Hill game, with an all-star dev team and voice cast. Then, completely on a whim, Konami shut down the project and rescinded the demo from online availability.

The move away from physical media is bad for pretty much everyone. You might love Persona 5, but if the apocalypse happens (which is unfortunately a LOT more likely than that hyperbole suggests) unless you got the actual disk, you're gonna be stuck with 4 and 3. Forever.