• linkshulkdoingit69@lemmy.nz
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    1 day ago

    How are video games going to stay innovative and profitable of these studio execs keep gutting their development teams?

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      22 hours ago

      The sane answer to that question is to build smaller games that can afford to sell fewer copies, but they’re not going to do that.

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      Well, the article says they were in QA, sooo I guess we’re the QA now, and they can just slap an early access label on everything.

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      19 hours ago

      They won’t, indie gaming will pick up some of the slack but we are witnessing the end of a golden era in game development.

      Also I could care less about the AAA studios themselves. What is tragic is that without AAA studios the stepstones for advancing in a career of game development has become an order of magnitude farther apart and less realistic (especially if you have a family or something and need some amount of consistency).