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I would expect that given how small the codex is most larger devs never even heard about this place
You would be mistaken, at least in the crpg side of the industry.
Could also mean that most crpg devs are utterly irrelevant for the industry due to their small size and their small audience
Yes literally no one in the business copies the crpg guys and tries to incorporate rpg design patterns into their shooter / football sim / racing game / crime lord sim / etc.
you mistake the impact RPG aspects had on the wider industry with the influence current CRPG devs have, which is nil
I know zero founders who didn’t start their companies because of a roleplaying game.

I also know zero crpg developers who haven’t moonlighted or white labeled some broader market Game you know but wouldn’t put their name on it.
how is that relevant to what I said, you guys are still irrelevant to the wider industry
 

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I would expect that given how small the codex is most larger devs never even heard about this place
You would be mistaken, at least in the crpg side of the industry.
Could also mean that most crpg devs are utterly irrelevant for the industry due to their small size and their small audience
Yes literally no one in the business copies the crpg guys and tries to incorporate rpg design patterns into their shooter / football sim / racing game / crime lord sim / etc.
you mistake the impact RPG aspects had on the wider industry with the influence current CRPG devs have, which is nil
I know zero founders who didn’t start their companies because of a roleplaying game.

I also know zero crpg developers who haven’t moonlighted or white labeled some broader market Game you know but wouldn’t put their name on it.
how is that relevant to what I said, you guys are still irrelevant to the wider industry
You’re half right, speaking as a financier and distributor of games, it’s not necessarily relevant to me, business-wise, what rpg developers think.

But I’ve found them to generally be more interesting than mobile game devs or DevOps style data nerds or lifers at EA Sports or shooter #9.

The game engine guys and the GTA guys are usually pretty fun as well.
 

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I assume historically codex was much more well known, but that no longer seems to be the case. A generational thing, or whatever you want to call it.
It depends. I know Lindsey Laney and Kate Dollarhyde lurked the dex for a bit during the Deadfire days getting incredibly frustrated with the things I was saying. Though I would agree it's likely that the majority of new devs are content to check the discords, reddit, resetera, and twitter for feedback and have no interest in what some relatively small low status forum says. Bethesda can't even be bothered to blacklist us anymore.
 

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