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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"

KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Not at that price point, of course. Ultrakill has a sub 2 million USD budget, its one of the most critically praised games on Steam, and its not even finished yet.

Live service games are starting to turn into a very expensive scam and if you can’t make a good single player game, you need to cut costs somewhere. AAA production budgets are just too huge and the product isn’t good.

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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
But that’s a problem with a lot of AAA developers. You can’t make a AAA game that isn’t a Skinner box for a price that players will pay.

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- NIB@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  God of War? Elder Ring? Baldur’s Gate? Spiderman? Last of Us? Super Mario? Zelda? Red Dead Redemption? Cyberpunk?
  
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  - KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They certainly have the production budget of an AAA game.
    
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WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Obligatory, I fucking love Ultrakill graaah

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