I can't really recall the last time I bought a "huge" AAA game (at least one that wasn't on, like, a 90% off sale and in the $5-10 range, anyway). Maybe Horizon Zero Dawn, which I bought a couple years ago for around $20? Or maybe Psychonauts 2 which I bought last year for around the same? I guess it depends on if you consider Psychonauts 2 to be a AAA game, I guess. (Of those two, Psychonauts 2 is the only one I've actually bothered to finish, at least as of this comment anyway.)
In any case, I will be totally content, even pleased in a schadenfreude way, if the AAA industry died off, and the sooner the better.
And yeah, what's sad is that the "indies" of today will indeed become the AAA modern industry of tomorrow. I mean, it's not like Electronics Arts or Activision (Blizzard or otherwise) or Square-Enix (or Square or Enix separately) or Capcom or Konami or Bethesda or whoever started out as the massive, money-grubbing blights on gaming that they are today, after all. Hell, even Microsoft started out as two guys in a garage, for what little that's worth now.
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Date: 2024-06-03 06:31 pm (UTC)From:In any case, I will be totally content, even pleased in a schadenfreude way, if the AAA industry died off, and the sooner the better.
And yeah, what's sad is that the "indies" of today will indeed become the AAA modern industry of tomorrow. I mean, it's not like Electronics Arts or Activision (Blizzard or otherwise) or Square-Enix (or Square or Enix separately) or Capcom or Konami or Bethesda or whoever started out as the massive, money-grubbing blights on gaming that they are today, after all. Hell, even Microsoft started out as two guys in a garage, for what little that's worth now.