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)
And yet, lately it’s the low budget indie games that dominate steam charts with massive successes.
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.
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.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 day 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.