Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios

Post by JetSpiegel » Thu, May 09, 2024, 9:49 PM UTC

johnnyanmac wrote: post #216

phone8675309 wrote: post #143

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I'd rather see studios make 100 games that each cost $2 million to make than one $200 million game.

Thing is 2M doesn't quite get you as far as you think. You get 10 devs (let's say, 4 programmers, 4 artists, 2 designers), pay them 100k each (which is lowballing it in med/high COL areas), and work 2 years. That's 2.4m just from labor, before advertising and other duties like community outreach. Sell for $30 (which is basically the top end of an "indie) and you need 80k copies to break even, more after platform cuts…

Post by anonbanker » Sat, May 11, 2024, 8:02 PM UTC

Vt71fcAqt7 wrote: post #171

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There is nothing more freeing than being "out of touch" with media. I got rid of my TV in 2000, and my life improved dramatically. I stopped playing AAA in 2009, and my life improved dramatically. Indie games, specifically the Godot dev scene, is where the real innovation in gaming is happening. When AAA implodes, you'll learn what you were missing all along.

It just sounds like you mainly like 2d platformers and open source (which is fine). But Godot isn't nearly the best engine to use for 3D, and arguably may not even the best of the open soucre engines (for example O3DE may be better, although almost no one is using it right now). Most 3D indie devs are using Unity and many are switching to Unreal now just like AAA (for example Palwolrd). I think "out of touch" here me…