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Palworld devs want to remain a small studio: “triple-A games are not for us” (automaton-media.com)

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[-] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 5 months ago

The devs over there were able to create an engaging and fun game on a constrained budget, using a combination of various unity assets, in house design and modelling and a lot of attention to detail (especially with animations), which ran exceptionally well for an early access release.

An AAA studio with the same limitations applied would likely not have made anything close

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

AA studio with the same limitations

well of course, theyre missing the mOsT iMpOrTaNt PaRt of a company - massively overpaid executives!

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

And design by committee

[-] odium@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

in house design and modeling

Actually, I think they outsourced design and modeling to Satoshi Tajiri

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 17 points 5 months ago

Ok but hear me out. What about AAAA games?

[-] anteaters@feddit.de 15 points 5 months ago

A small studio with three games in eternal early access. The usual.

[+] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world -11 points 5 months ago

If Palworld isn't a AAA game. Then I don't know what is

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 23 points 5 months ago

AAA is the budget, not a review of the game.

Being an indie developer, they didn't pump a whole lot of money into this game.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago

TIL. It makes a little more sense why Ubisoft just declared a game as AAAA - they spent a lot of money on it. It didn’t mean we as gamers get a better experience

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Well, it's a bit of a catch 22 in that case. Because so much money is being spent on developing the game, there's an expectation of high quality in order to get a return on that investment. And charging more for a game, well, we as consumers expect a better game than a standard $60 game.

The problem with Ubisoft's case is they spent the "AAAA" budget for a mediocre game. Had the game been awesome, we'd probably be cheering on the idea of a AAAA game.

[-] Leuthil@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Palworld still ended up costing millions of dollars, although not tens of millions.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml -2 points 5 months ago

Don't have to spend a lot of money when all the assets are stolen.

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