GCR Website Goes Live

Thank you for checking out our website and investing your energy into making gaming a more community focused hobby. We are here to fight for your rights as a consumer and bring back the power of voting with our dollar when it comes to games and their companies. While we are focused on the Switch 2 boycott we have plans to continue seeking better pricing across multiple platforms and storefronts.

For years we have seen a shift in the games industry that continuously pushes bigger budgets corresponding to more expensive products without taking the time to innovate on the core gameplay elements. We believe that AAA studios have become bloated with hierarchy chains and have focused on rehiring industry figures instead of offering chances to rising developers. With the lack of highly optimized graphic engines we are setting a wasteful standard for pricing that isn't contributing to the evolution of modern titles.

Plenty of people have pointed to indies as the future of gaming and we believe their work belongs on the same pedestal as industry main stays. The rich get richer when they have disposable budgets going towards marketing and PR while the humble indie waits for the greater community to naturally discover it through social media posts. Alongside the greater time investment that must go towards smaller teams developing content for a full release, indies deserve more discoverability.

Work hours have notoriously been stretched for upcoming releases that are behind on schedule in the AAA space. This can cost so much more than time, and in many cases it leads to rushed product deliveries and creative burnout among the surviving dev team. Annual game releases are a financial problem that is continually fed by fans experiencing FOMO in their favorite series.

Finally we would like to tackle the world of emulation and how everybody in the industry could benefit from joining these efforts. Game preservation for retro titles has always been the job of consumers to personally archive ROM data without allowing the general public any legal means to obtain defunct discs/cartridges. Burdening fans with full price remakes is not a realistic approach nor do they honor the legacy of those original releases.