It seems the general direction the internet is going and I’m all for it
I’m gonna release a AAAAA game. It’ll cost $95 and when you install it, it’ll just be a romhack of Super Mario World changing all the enemy sprites into butts. There’ll be a link to file complaints that just points to a terrible image made in ms paint that says “lol f u”.
My stock prices gonna hit the moon.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s just a marketing term. Just like AAA is a marketing term meaning we spent more money advertising this product than we spent on development.
aciDC14@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ah, i guess the “A” in “AAA” stands for Advertisement.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Monopoly Go is the only real AAAA
quafeinum@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Except that there was no advertising for concord lol.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
The A is for “Actually this game is $90 now instead of $60.”
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 months 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.
PlantJam@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Have any companies besides ubisoft used the term yet?
Aielman15@lemmy.world 3 months 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).
ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 months ago
iirc Sqaure Enix called Forspoken ‘AAAA’