AAA games has been flopping left and right but, why are they still making them? What stopping them from lowering the cost?
They made them for the modern audience and have shitty optimization.
>>730717525shareholders.its always shareholders
they still sell enough
>>730717557>>730717576But it hasn't been working for years now, shouldn't they try something new?
>>730717724taking risks is anathema to shareholders, they want the profit now, not gamble it on a risky venture
>>730717525it takes like 5-8 years for such changes to go into effect. these games were obviously in development since before they started flipping, retard kun
>>730717525there's a constant influx of new gamers from two groups. Basically those from non western countries and normalfags in western countries. neither has much standards as a whole
>>730718454alright, but why every good game gets canceled the second something goes wrong, and obvious multimillion flops like concord get developed to the end and released?
>>730718286For shareholders to get their profit "now" without dividends they need to see an increase in the share value, which requires the company to outperform set and implicit market expectationsYou don't achieve that by "going steady" and "continuing what you're good at", you do that by bloating the scope and piling up the long term promises
>>730718564so you're telling me they bloat the company so it seems bigger when they sell it to the next guy?
>>730717525>finance team tells me we can invest into one big safe project and make triple our investment or more>or invest into multiple smaller projects that have no reliable info to make any assumptions off of and even if they do turn a profit it will be far less than the safe projectIt's simple accounting, why invest in the less profitable on paper option unless there's a gun to my head or something?
>>730718728On paper, fair enough, but it has been years that show dumping millions in one project is just as risky when it flop massively, and it's not small number of cases, it has been pretty common
>>730718728Because diversifying yiur portfolio is the first thing they teach you at economics 101.
>>730717525They have been lowering costs, a historic amount of jeets are being hired to do anything tech related
>>730718691If your objective is appeasing mindless shareholders what you even make is barely relevant compared to the narrative you can construct around your future
Look at it that way, when money is spent, it doesn't just go poof, it only changes hands. So when you see that X amount was used to make a game, it's only logical to conclude that this money went somewhere, ending up in someone's pockets. It would also be reasonable to assume that the owners of those pockets would be interested in continuing the flow.
