Comment on Anon pitches a new game

• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How in the hell is EA still not dead?

  Sports games

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    WHY DO PEOPLE BUY THAT??!

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The same reason there aren’t bear-proof trash cans. There’s a lot of overlap in intelligence levels between people and bears

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• Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Seems to be the basis for 90% of the economy at this point.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  EA is a publisher that goes against that, bad example to use

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t know what you mean.

    Every sports game is barely an asset flip, sometimes even with wrong years.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Most recently Split Fiction would be an example of not trend chasing

      Unraveled, Fe, the rest of Hazelight’s games, Knockout city

      The Sims and the sports games also aren’t trend chasing

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Sims and sports games are just rehashes.

        Or re-releases.

        And every AAA studio will slowly stop investing into new IPs.

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