Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock)

Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can’t take risks when you put in that much money

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh I don’t say that it’s a good reason, it’s just why they do it. Shareholder value must go up. Trying something new risks that numbers go down, can’t do that.

      Personally I don’t care for “triple A” games anymore. The last one I bought at full price shortly after release was 2019 for Jedi Knight, and that was a huge exception because the last before that one was 2010 for Mass Effect 2. All my other games in my way to big library are indies or games I bought on sale for less than 20 bucks and only because I’m interested in. I have blocked big publishers like EA or Ubisoft on Steam since a few years because of their attitude, enshittifiaction and mostly because their games are the same over and over again.

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• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s because creative direction in these comapnies sucks. It’s usually a big, bureaucratized souless machine where your connections mean more than your actual skill.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • omarfw@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Couldn’t be me. I only pay full price for games when it’s exceptional games like arc raiders or quality indie games with fair pricing.

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    With a small touch of design-by-committee on top

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