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The games industry sucks (www.youtube.com)

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Same title as the video. Game dev writer Alanah Pierce offers her POV on the recent layoffs from Epic Games.

This is one of the few industries that consistently and continuously posts record profits while also firing everyone who put in the work to make the success possible.

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[-] verysoft@kbin.social 66 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's impossible to get people to stop buying AAA games, but please, stop buying AAA games.

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 17 points 9 months ago

What defines AAA?

Like, is baldurs gate AAA?

Or just anything from EA, Ubisoft, etc.?

[-] H_Interlinked@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago

Larian is an unusual case. It's indie but it's huge. They aren't funded by or marketing through a bigger publishing company so IMO that's still indie. But they're hundreds of people so not really small, and BG3 can by all means be considered a AAA game because the difference in quality and scale is indistinguishable from AAA published games.

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