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Investors on the state of video games: "We are investing, but the bar is so much higher" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[โ€“] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Older gamers understand that AAA = bad. Large publishers = bad. etc.

It's a shame that most of the industry's sales are from kids under the age of 14. They don't know that they're buying garbage. They don't know that Ubisoft is 95% trash or that 2K is 95% trash. If it has colorful lights, kids want to play it.

[โ€“] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Or parents/grandparents buying gifts for kids. As a parent myself, there's price targets for gifts that AAA games fit right into. I deviated from it this past year and gave my daughter a cheaper game that I figured she'd like. It was a dinosaur-themed Harvest Moon called Paleo Pines. The bet paid off since she's actually put down Minecraft to play this one rather than playing it for a bit and returning to Minecraft. Oh yeah, Minecraft itself isn't AAA. So I've got decently high hopes she will avoid wasting her money on the polished turds a lot of the bigger studios are putting out now.