I think itâs due to the little guy making a huge wave that other people donât feel theyâre âallowedâ to make. These other devs work on âAAAâ companies working on big name titles from studios everyone has heard of so. But now a small, indie studio comes along with a grand slam and they donât like it kind of makes them look bad by comparison. Showing you can release a big complex game without it being an absolute buggy mess, doesnât need microtransactions, doesnât need to sell millions of copies to be considered a success, and isnât just a copy paste of the previous game with a handful of modifications made to slap a new âFOR SALEâ label on itâŚ
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Atomic@sh.itjust.works â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Why are they getting so much attention for it?
Nintendo does the same with BoTW and ToTK. Long dev cycles that releases a functional game without micro-transactions.
FromSoft does the same with most of their games. Where people actually beg them to release DLCs.
But no⌠itâs Larion they seem to go after.
Nintendo is huge. FromSoft has their own cult. But Larion? Whatâs can they blame there? Nothing. Most big studios that bitch about this is larger than Larion. Maybe because they are more scared that if Larion can do it. Thereâs no excuse anymore.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Goronmon@kbin.social â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
But now a small, indie studio comes along with a grand slam and they donât like it kind of makes them look bad by comparison.
Larian is similar in size, if not significantly larger, than Bethesda when they made Skyrim.
Syo@kbin.social â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
"AAA" in price tag only.
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Atomic@sh.itjust.works â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Youâre not referring to Larion as a small indie studio right? They are not a small indie studio.
FeelsGouda@feddit.de â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
I think the âproblemâ for those people is that the game broke out of its bubble nintendo, from soft and also larion up until now all had their own bubble of fans. Larion broke that mold and even people who have nothing to do with the genre celebrate it.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Critical mass has been achieve.
bonfire921@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
I agree with you, thing is: Nintendo produces Nintendo exclusives, so it doesnât affect the gaming space as much as other games might
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
There was plenty of distaste for Elden Ring when it came out â devs at Ubisoft I believe ridiculed how the UI wasnât informative and such.
I think AAA studios are terrified because theyâre seeing just how much consumers value quality over quantity and MTX bullshit. Games that should be in self contained bubbles are now hitting mainstream and becoming absurdly popular.
CheezyWeezle@lemm.ee â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Lmao Ubisoft of all folks should shut the fuck up about UI, they are literally the source of the meme about cluttered and overly complicated UI. If Ubisoft is complaining about a UI I have to automatically assume it is a good UI.
Also, if AAA developers have been paying attention for the last decade, they would know that consumers have valued quality and shown disdain for MTX since MTX started becoming pervasive. MTX overall can generate a lot of revenue, but it isnt sustainable, hence why there is always some sort of FOMO characteristic included with the MTX system, making things limited time and constantly shovelling low effort ânew contentâ to fill out the MTX system.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Theyâve been working for almost a generation now on changing the mindset of gamers as to what they should expect from a game, and here comes a really good game from a little known studio doing exactly what games used to expect before the mind changing was attempted.
CoolBeance@lemm.ee â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
The lesson here is you can trust most Japanese publishers/developers and itâs the opposite for American ones. Christ, Death Stranding was almost ruined by all the âsubtleâ product placements they put
chickenwing@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Kojima got away with his product placement in mgs3 because nobody in the west knew calorie mate was a real product lol.
Blackmist@feddit.uk â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Most of the Sony exclusives are the same. God of War, Spiderman, Ghost of Tsushima.
Just solid AAA single player games, no nickel and dime bullshit.
Every F2P model is predatory as fuck, and relies on taking advantage of whales over a prolonged period.
Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
âŚbut I paid full price for D4 and still got a half baked game with an invasive in-game shop.
Blackmist@feddit.uk â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Not to victim blame, but if you looked at everything Blizzard have done over the last 10 years, and thought âmaybe this one will be differentâ then perhaps the problem is you.
Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Not to X, butâŚ
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Wilibus@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Donât forget the battle passes.
Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Ironically Iâm less concerned with battle passes as long as they donât sell power. The actual mtx itself doesnât bother me, Iâve easily spent hundreds in path of exile. But I prefer to enjoy the game first, and then at some point decide that I want to support the devs, and then maybe I buy something.
GenericUsername28@lemmynsfw.com â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm as frustrated with D4 as the next guy, but Iâd hardly call their in-game shop invasive. Their MTX has been minor and cosmetic thus far. There are far better examples including one within the Diablo universe.
Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
The shop had an un-clearable red alert notification any time they released a new skin for your character chat.
The only way to clear it was to open the shop and scroll to find the new item and click on it, opening the store page. Then when you backed out it would go away.
You had to do this for every single item that was released.
Maybe Iâm neurotic or autistic or OCD or all three but those stupid red alerts trigger me and I need to clear them all to keep playing the game.
I donât even want the fucking store in my game. Give me an option to turn it off for fuckâs sake.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
While not exactly their in-game shopâŚ
gamingideology.com/âŚ/diablo-iv-unleashes-player-râŚ