League of Legends

[Kaden]

Yeah, exactly. That bit about the chainmail bikini, I was being serious. Why go to more effort than if you don't need to? Simple profit motive, there.

They don't need to because people just go for it. People just go for it because they don't care that it's lazy design as long as it's visually appealing. As long as people don't care, it will continue to happen.

It won't ever "end." Games will eventually settle in exactly the same artistic space that movies are in right now. Will people go see a movie with bouncing tits and giant explosions? Hell yeah we will. The difference, right now, is that people are willing to look at such a movie with enough of a critical eye to be able to say "yeah it was just explosions and tits and the rest was garbage." People don't really do that with games. Games, sadly, also cost $60 and dozens of hours before you know whether or not it's garbage.

It's easy to see that games are trending in a "good" direction, though. Look at EA. They do nothing but push they're "this is what people like, right?" marketing campaigns and people are sick of it. They see through it and they're tired of it. Eventually that unwillingness to put up with non-stop shit will spread in a positive way.