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"

• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They did, 40million of the budget went to marketing

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  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh. Oh dear.

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What did they do with the two bags of chips after someone pocketed 39,999,990 dollars?

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Disagree. The fact that I’m only hearing about it now that it’s flopped is a good thing because I might have given it attention before. Well, probably not because it’s EA.

  I just hope that companies that aren’t EA don’t take what they say about single player games at face value. EA games probably need friend group hype to succeed at this point. Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking that there are many others like me who want to avoid anything from that company and thus would only play when pressured by friends.

  But if EA does fail, there likely will be a period where they try to talk about it like experts and will just say, “oh, gamers must not like x genre anymore”, when gamers really just don’t like overproduced garbage games that are clearly tuned to sell MTX rather than be fun.

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