Comment on How China’s first AAA game Wukong Became One of the Fastest Selling Games in History

Echinoderm@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Let us not forget the revolutionary idea to-- now pay attention cause this is BIG-- to prioritize player experience! Can’t believe nobody has thought of that before.

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  • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The player experience of running into invisible walls every five meters?

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    • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Look, they only had $70m to work with, okay? You gotta make some compromises when you’re on such a shoestring budget.

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• istanbullu@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wukong’s 70M$ is fairly small compared to the other AAA games.

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  • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just like Chinese wages are pretty small compared to Western wages. Nonexistent in many cases.

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    • sunbather@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      source? plus “western wages” is a pretty broad range and doesnt really mean anything without context

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      • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        forbes.com/…/the-east-west-wage-gap-not-nearly-as…

        As for the nonexistent salary, that’s a reference to the millions of slaves:

        www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/…/china/

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wonder how much of that is marketing. That eats up most of a AAA game budget and I don’t think it was heavily advertised outside of China.

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