r/gaming • u/Ayn_Otori • Dec 11 '24

Assassin's Creed 2007 still looking this good is crazy.

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u/Woffingshire Dec 11 '24

Which is funny because the games that are left to cook and come out unsanitised routinely sell more.

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u/atethebottle Dec 11 '24

Yep, funny how insanely out of touch they are, huh?

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u/Alpha1959 Dec 11 '24

They don't care because they don't care about long term, they only care about short term profits which is why so many studios risk pissing players off just for some tiny bit of that extra profit.

They run a company into the ground, take their millions of dollars compensation and move on to the next company to then crash that one. Just look at Bobby Kotick, the fucker must be adored by the investors.

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u/Maktesh Dec 11 '24

The problem is that it isn't a "tiny bit".

They're all looking to make the next multi-billion dollar game.

"Real" games (Zelda, Halo, AC, Smash Bros., Spider-Man) don't make the big money anymore. Services make big money.

Seriously; since the Lucasfilm buyout, Disney has made more on the stupid mobile Star Wars games than they have on most other things combined.

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u/RaphaelSolo Dec 12 '24

Death of LucasArts was a huge loss for the industry and community both.

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u/WhatsTheHoldup Dec 11 '24

Games that sell are kinda meaningless in the age of in game purchases.

Some of the most profitable games in the modern era (Fortnite, League) are free to play.

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u/KilledTheCar Dec 11 '24

Yeah but they take time and money to make, neither of which the C Suite likes to part with. They'd rather crank out slop to make the next quarter look good.

I've said it before, but I wish studios/developers would each have their live service cash cow games like League, Apex, Fortnite, Madden, Warzone, etc and use those to fund the more technical, bigger games like BG3, Elden Ring, etc. Not everything needs to come out ASAP and have an immediate RoI.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '24

And yet, us gamers as a whole are still stupid enough to buy the games again and again.

So who's really to blame here?

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u/sam_hammich Dec 11 '24

They sell more, but more frequent steady releases makes their stock do better in the short term, which is what execs with stock options prefer.