Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea"

TIMMAY@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Nobody bought our game we didn’t market. Guess we’ll stop making an entire genre of games.”

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, it’s my favorite genre, so if EA can stay the fuck away from it, that’s not a bad outcome

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, it’s my favorite genre, so if EA can stay the fuck away from it, that’s not a bad outcome

      Had you heard of it?

      I’ve literally never heard of it, but not my genre.

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      • ArachnidMania@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think they mean single player shooter is their favorite genre, and would be happy for EA to stay away from them. Not the ‘game nobody heard of’

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      • 1371113@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not the person you replied to but I’ve been a first person shooter fan since Wolfenstein 3D and original doom. I had NEVER heard of it til today. First person and tower defense games are basically all I play.

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  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They claim to have spent 40 million usd marketing it, I saw some people on twitch playing it when it first came out but it looked meh and was priced way too high so I didn’t watch much

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  • DrQuint@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They did market it. A lot.

    It’s just that the game’s trailers were wildly forgettable.

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    • TIMMAY@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean im on my ps5 every day, browse a ton of game related content on lemmy and such, and share a lot of game news with my friend group, and Ive literally never heard of or seen marketing for this game.

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  • Salix@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From the article:

    “At a high level, Immortals was massively overscoped for a studio’s debut project,” the former employee said. "The development cost was around $85 million, and I think EA kicked in $40 million for marketing and distribution…

    They must have done extremely bad marketing because I’ve never heard of this game

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are many genres EA needs to stop making, but I doubt they’ll take the right lesson from this

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• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same. This seems to be getting more common with various media and products. Too many choices which is a good thing for consumers but not good for publishers.

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