starting to think it might be bad that the industry at large is producing only two types of games: load-bearing AAAAAs with 5-10 year development cycles that need to make a billion dollars to not be seen as a failure, and predatory dark-pattern live games that…also need to make a billion dollars - ThreadSky

antlervel.vet • 31 days ago

starting to think it might be bad that the industry at large is producing only two types of games: load-bearing AAAAAs with 5-10 year development cycles that need to make a billion dollars to not be seen as a failure, and predatory dark-pattern live games that…also need to make a billion dollars

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jordanquiverns.bsky.social•31 days ago

Well as long as they make a billion dollars I don’t see a problem!!

jordanquiverns.bsky.social•31 days ago

Seriously though. When I saw Veilguard was deemed a failure at 1.5 million units my eyes almost popped out of my head

leftoblique.bsky.social•31 days ago

To be fair it cost $200M, so 1.5M in sales (once distributors take a cut) is *at best* likely a small loss.

The problem is that an isometric RPG should not cost $200M.

Fuck, no game should cost $200M, unless it's a sports game you know will sell 50M copies and you need to spend that on NIL rights.

jordanquiverns.bsky.social•31 days ago

Right yeah, a big part of the problem is incompetent management. If over a million copies of an rpg isn’t a win, the problem is at the top

But of course there’s a sect of gamers/execs who will blame this game’s inclusivity, (which was one of the best parts about it) and just ignore that BG3 exists

montrosechloe.bsky.social•31 days ago

I have been boycotting practically every major publisher for around 4 years now, and something I discovered is they actually make up a TINY percentage of Games. Loudest and Most visable, but TINY.
I am DROWNING in games I genuinely am dying to play. Too MANY of them! It doesn't stop!

tarvharblin.bsky.social•31 days ago

I got tired of most of the AAA type games. They're rarely innovative in any way. And I always feel like I'm on rails.

I love finding a new Indie game that gives me that joy of discovery I had as a kid.

withersbg3.bsky.social•31 days ago

The true innovation in games has always come from the indie scene. We should be looking to smaller studios and developers more in this time of enshittifying capitalism

guildmastergrouch.bsky.social•31 days ago

indie games is where it's at

brndnm.bsky.social•31 days ago

And even with the hundreds of millions of budget, they still look and play exactly like the last AAAAA game

wyx.gay•31 days ago

capitalism as a service

evilcalvin.bsky.social•30 days ago

I’ve been saying for years that only the indies and AA games are keeping the industry afloat. Zero originality among the AAA games with nothing but sequels, reboots, spin offs, remasters and remakes. If it weren’t for the indies now,
I’d probably have dropped gaming after 40+ years.

sexdracula.rocks•31 days ago

it's great that all the incentives are to make the writing and gameplay as bland and inoffensive as possible out of a fear of alienating literally anyone. I bet that works out well for the industry's popularity and relevance.

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