Comment on Does AAAA just mean awful triple A games now?

slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• aciDC14@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah, i guess the “A” in “AAA” stands for Advertisement.

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Monopoly Go is the only real AAAA

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  • quafeinum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Except that there was no advertising for concord lol.

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    • aciDC14@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True dat.

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  • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The A is for “Actually this game is $90 now instead of $60.”

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• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It originated as a marketing term for Skull and Bones, right?

  At this point, I suggest that it applies to basically any extremely costly game backed by a huge publisher that owns many development studios, that has been in development for over 4 years before any kind of release, ie, stuck in development hell, execs convinced its going to be a massive hit such that they sunken cost fallacy other games or even other studios out of existence so they can keep funding their uber project.

  With a definition like this, Skull and Bones qualifies, so does Concord and Suicide Squad.

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• PlantJam@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have any companies besides ubisoft used the term yet?

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  • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I seem to remember MS claiming they were opening the “first AAAA dev studio” (The Initiative). Since then, the studio has been radio silent, lost a bunch of talent, and needed help from Crystal Dynamics to work on their first game (Perfect Dark reboot).

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    iirc Sqaure Enix called Forspoken ‘AAAA’

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