In the recent 30th anniversary issue of Edge, various developers shared their thoughts on the future of gaming, with particular emphasis placed on the role of AI. But they also shared more general thoughts on where gaming is at right now, and where it'll be in the next 30 years. One developer, former EverQuest 2 creative director Raph Koster, painted a particularly bleak picture of gaming's future.
His opinions are based upon an experiment he ran in 2018. "I asked everybody I knew in the industry to secretly tell me their game development budget," he says. "And I gathered all of the data together, inflation adjusted all of it, and put it on a graph." Through this, he discovered that game development budgets are growing exponentially by ten times a decade.
