All purpose Sales and Sales Rumours and Anecdotes [2024 edition]

[Completelu Average]

Actually Avowed is almost AAA quality on a AA budget. It's quite good once you get into it.

You may have that opinion and that is fine, but it's no where near actual AAA quality. AAA games don't get "mostly positive" reviews on Steam and an 81 on Metacritic with 6.9 player review scores.

Even IGN gave it a 7. And they gave Veilguard a 9.

I'm not going waste time ripping the game, but by all reasonable accounts it's very "mid". Not horrible, not something I would wish people to lose their jobs over, but nothing special either. A solid B game.


As for AAA budget... THERE IS NONE!

PERIOD

AAA quality has NOTHING to do with developmental costs. NOTHING AT ALL.

You ever hear about a game called Stardew Valley? HUGE hit. Scores high in all the reviews. 41 MILLION copies sold.

Development costs less than $100k.

You going to tell me that's not an AAA game because it didn't cost enough to make?

That kind of thinking is precisely what is wrong with the gaming industry today. An expensive turd is still a turd. It's not suddenly AAA quality because it's expensive.

 

[Completelu Average]

And for the record, Black Myth: Wukong cost $43 Million to make and was Game of the Year. Guess it's not AAA while the $200+ Million LOSING Star Wars Outlaws is AAAA, right?

Budget never has anything to do with a game being AAA or not.

 

[Charlietus]

And for the record, Black Myth: Wukong cost $43 Million to make and was Game of the Year. Guess it's not AAA while the $200+ Million LOSING Star Wars Outlaws is AAAA, right?

Budget never has anything to do with a game being AAA or not.

BMW was game of the year? Must have missed that.

And having such a big difference in wages between regions of the world makes categorizing games by budget kind of irrelevant.

 

[Johnny Awesome]

You may have that opinion and that is fine, but it's no where near actual AAA quality. AAA games don't get "mostly positive" reviews on Steam and an 81 on Metacritic with 6.9 player review scores.

Actually, 81 is the very definition of almost AAA. You're letting your own personal tastes cloud your analysis.

Even IGN gave it a 7. And they gave Veilguard a 9.

Silly to cherry pick one review outlet.

I'm not going waste time ripping the game, but by all reasonable accounts it's very "mid". Not horrible, not something I would wish people to lose their jobs over, but nothing special either. A solid B game.

81 is not a B.

As for AAA budget... THERE IS NONE!

PERIOD

AAA quality has NOTHING to do with developmental costs. NOTHING AT ALL.

You ever hear about a game called Stardew Valley? HUGE hit. Scores high in all the reviews. 41 MILLION copies sold.

Development costs less than $100k.

You going to tell me that's not an AAA game because it didn't cost enough to make?

That kind of thinking is precisely what is wrong with the gaming industry today. An expensive turd is still a turd. It's not suddenly AAA quality because it's expensive.

There are AAA quality games and AAA budget games. Theses are often related, but not always.