Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock)

• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same thing for AAA studios.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not quite. There aren’t thousands of releases per year that would qualify as AAA. In fact, since they take so much longer to make, there are very few of them in a given year anymore.

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• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And yet, lately it’s the low budget indie games that dominate steam charts with massive successes.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And Counter-Strike, and Marvel Rivals, and PUBG, and Crimson Desert, and Baldur’s Gate 3, and Elden Ring, and Slay the Spire, and (somehow) Delta Force. I don’t think you can say it’s only indie games doing so.

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    • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Of corse not only indie games. But there’s huge shift in the market from behemoths like EA, or Ubisoft towards smaller studios and indie devs.

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