AAA chads, how the FUCK are we losing to a bunch of weirdos making games in their basements?

>>715615637 (OP)
the secret to being a successful indie dev is making multiplayer streamer slop games.

ass

>>715615779
the secret to being a successful indie dev is to make shit that revolves around a single idea instead of ticking every fucking checkbox on the list provided by market analysis department and releasing a bloated open-world, poi filled, ue powered piece of shit

Steam is third worlder central, AAA makes far more money than cheap $5 asset flips

Cattle are easily cultivated when told that something can be fun if they play it with people that make things fun. I'm actually jealous that as an individual who is above the vast majority of those in this hobby from a sentience standpoint I've yet to exploit this.

>>715615637 (OP)
how many of those are le funny XD streamer bait "games"?

>>715616226
Too bad actual AAA game devs only see fraction of that money.

>>715616664
Oh no they have secure jobs that pay them every day instead of crowdfunding or using your own money to hopefully make a hit game but most likely end up in the shovelware pile

>>715617223
>secure jobs
we going back to pretending the purge didn't happen?

Indie meme games are forgotten in a month.
AAA kinos are remembered for a lifetime.

>>715616257
I get having no one to play games with is tough but you don't have to lie to strangers to feel better.

>>715615637 (OP)
None of these games will be played ten years from now. They are fads. Fads make money, why is this news?

>>715617391

This. People still play the old-school legendary classics like Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Horizon Zero Dawn to this day. Who tf is still playing indie Twitch fad game #9893838927?

>>715617732
>old-school legendary classics like Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Horizon Zero Dawn

>>715615637 (OP)
AAA started ramping down in the mid-2000s and completely ceased in the early 2010s.
It is now purely a marketing term and a way to run severe administrative grift and confidence trickery, justifying continued investment and government grants, despite a complete lack of product delivery.
The completely bloated and unmanageable scope of these projects means that it is easy to lose oversight on whether anything is actually getting accomplished, while also ensuring that the amount that can be skimmed off the top is appropriately large.
>>715617223
>Secure jobs
They are literally cycled in and out to so that the company can appear forward thinking in their quarterly reports.

>>715617284
>but about the few???? Forget many find new jobs elsewhere!!!

>>715617732
>old-school legendary classics
>Ass Creed
>HORIZON

>>715615779
correct
>>715616105
incorrect

>>715617732
bruh

>Weirdos making games in their basement
>Posts million dollar marketing budget industry plant shit

>>715617391
yeah who tf remembers dumb indie meme games like minecraft, terraria or stardew valley

>>715615637 (OP)
>inb4 e33 is "indie"

>>715615637 (OP)
We are halfway through the year and the the only good AAA game released has been E33.

>>715619159
>million dollar marketing budget industry plant shit
Which one? Schedule 1 was one guy.

>>715615637 (OP)
rockstar has to release gta6 and have it be the best game from recent memory with minimal bugs and amazing performance. thats the only way this "indie game good, aaa slop bad" mentality could be reigned back a little bit.

>>715615779
Corponigger cope

>>715619554
Clown sticker

>>715615637 (OP)
Because that's what gaming always was. Weirdos in their basement or garage making fun, creative, and innovative video games. Nintendo and Valve still make games like this which is why their games don't suck. Microsoft and Sony make AAA slop along with AAA third parties going by some shitty corporate standard.

>>715621784
>the "fun, creative and innovative video game" in question
I don't know man, I rather get actual games than whatever the fuck this is

>>715615779
dig a hole showed multiplayer is not a requirement. Sucking off streamers is the only requirement.

>>715622073
This is a game though and not a movie, so...

>>715615637 (OP)
maybe because there has been no AAA game this year
Can anyone even name 3?

>>715615637 (OP)
schedule 1 is fun, but extremely stressful when you play solo.

AAA is expensive movies games
AA and indies are cheap and the most interesting
f2p games are just cosmetics and still make billions

AAA must die out soon

>>715615637 (OP)
Why is this a bad thing?

>>715617391
which AAA games from this year are going to be remembered for a lifetime?

>>715627120
Expedition 33

>>715617915
this is the game who made sure the dragon age veilguard devs are now infesting dozens of other gaming companies, like a metastasizing tumor

>>715627250
that's an AA game

>>715617732
saar assassins creed and gta best games

>>715627285
Source?

>>715627473