Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 days agoThen the AAA studios will use some of their Saudi cash to buy out the most prominent indie developers, only to slowly strangle their products
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Isn’t this how the gaming boom and bust cycle always worked?
Indie(ish) games boom, AAA studios buy them and make them bust.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Not necessarily. Minecraft kinda went that way, but Factorio is still independent, and they were both released around the same time.
AAA games are often based on someone else’s IPs (e.g. Tom Clancy) or derived from a successful competitor (e.g. indie games). But I haven’t seen a ton of cases where the indie studio was bought outright.