Why "Platform Exclusive" games need to stop being a thing

Platform Exclusive are a rather new (in the history of gaming) phenomenon, which started with the two major console platforms (Xbox and Playstation) or Microsoft vs Sony competing for respective player bases for their consoles.

These companies pay hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars to secure a title exclusively for their console, sometimes for weeks (Call of Duty) but sometimes for years (Grand Theft Auto V) and indefinitely (Uncharted) which is absolutely ridiculous and insane, not just for the giants paying this sum of money, but for the game developers themselves.

Is there no sense of dignity anymore? Is it all about the dollar dollar bills? Big software and game developers used to develop for any platform they could (with the capital they had) to get their product out there, to show it off and to allow the gamers that were like them to play a game that they thought were masterpieces and loved to play themselves. This entire market has now changed and for the worse. Developers now only care about how much money they can squeeze out of us with their DLCs and micro-transactions, the market has flipped from a consumer market to a developer market and, we as gamers should not let this continue!

Some of you may be saying: "Yeah dude I get you its all crap now-a-days, bring back the golden days of vidya with Half-Life and Hitman: Blood Money, but seriously how are We going to change the market?"
Well it's not too much of a case of making a "grass roots movement" as it is about being Informed... We all need to stop buying pre-orders, as often at release we are left with crap we didn't pay for and a game riddled with bugs and micro-transactions by a lazy, money hungry developer. We need to rely on the reviews people make of a game and not make purchases too quickly, see to get back to the golden age of games, we need to think like we're in the golden age of games. We used to have to go to a boutique (store) to purchase physical copies of video games, chuck em in our DVD drive and install for a few hours, so before we bought we analysed that case up and down 50 times to make sure it was what we wanted, and so we GOT what we wanted. Slowing down and taking your time to purchase a video game is much more rewarding and ensures you get the game you want with no BS, so next time you want to click that buy button on steam, the app store or otherwise, take a few hours to think it over, watch your favorite youtuber play it and see if it is the game for you before spending your hard earned dollars.

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As for platform exclusivity, its all the same thing, if we take our time and stop purchasing consoles for the sake of a few games, developers will be forced to produce their games for a variety of platforms again. Its all supply, demand and consumerism, if we take away our consumerism, and we demand for platform nullity (no platform favoring) then developers will either conform or risk going out of business.

Anyway that's my few dollars worth, I hope you guys enjoyed reading this rather long article about Platform exclusivity and game developer BS, if so and you want to see more like it make sure to give that follow button a bit of a tickle, cheers guys.