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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  they’re right though. it has nothing to do with “defending” anyone, that’s just what AAA means.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/…/AAA_(video_game_industry)

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What other industry uses the term that way? Every other industry is quality. AAA to refer to size…. Right….

    I know that’s how the term is used, it’s just fucking wrong when every other industry uses it differently……

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      it’s all informal marketing jargon in every industry bro. this is not a hill to die on.

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      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And that’s how marketing wins, when everyone just rolls over and accepts it.

        Nah, this is just part of a long list of shit the gaming industry is trying to reverse, stop letting this continue to happen and stop defending it.

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• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What are you talking about? The “AAA” classification has always been a measure of corporate involvement and budget, not of quality. If you think that being large in scale and having good production quality is what makes “AAA” games, you’re dead wrong.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What other insert uses it that way? Every other industry is quality, not size. Don’t let them get away with this shit.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      okay dude

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      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The AAA games they used to put out were quality games at one point. So the term was correct, now that the quality has slid they are trying to get marketing to work on their side.

        And people like you letting them get away with it is how it works.

        I think this is where people usually say shill and boot licker in these exchanges.

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• variants@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I always thought AAA just meant they have a lot of money, like how cod games are AAA because of the budget but are still terrible, not as an indicator of quality

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