What The AAA Industry Should Learn From Baldur's Gate 3 (And Elden Ring. And Stray. And Disco El...

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Published on November 24, 2023 4:10:53 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smHrEwlg_E8

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Elden Ring (2022)

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NOTES:
-Loot boxes were eventually removed from Shadow of War, but that doesn’t excuse them being there in the first place.
-One thing I didn’t dive too far into is how games like BG3 and Elden Ring, while lucrative on their own, can’t bring in the same money as mobile/live-service stuff. In the spot the industry is in right now, the money coming from mobile/live-service stuff is what is setting the market. If the industry had more of an emphasis on non-service/non-MTX-based games, it wouldn’t be valued as high as it is now (something like $180 billion). I think this is somewhat an existential problem, because we’re questioning how much a good game industry should be worth (at least in dollars). I would say that if the only way to facilitate that kind of value is through the live-service emphasis the AAA industry currently has, then that kind of value is not worth it because it results in a games industry that makes demonstrably inferior games (and inferior art).
-Some of the games I discuss are, of course, AAA games. The AAA space is not completely devoid of quality or creativity. But I think there could be a much better balance and variance of experiences made by bigger publishers and the games I discussed (along with others) are evidence to that.

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