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Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)

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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

All AAA games and AAA studios are garbage.

Long live the indie game developer

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago

Just wait a year or two and then play the stuff people are still talking about. It's hilarious how often it's indy games.

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

FromSoft, Santa Monica?

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I don't like FromSoft games personally, but I can recognize that they are well-made and aren't problematic in the ways that other major AAA studios are.

So I'll just acknowledge that of course there will be some notable exceptions, despite my hyperbolic use of "all" in my original comment. I'm a huge fan of BotW and TotK and Nintendo certainly counts as a AAA studio, but I think those games are exemplary and also non-problematic in the ways other major studios are. But despite these very real and very notable exceptions, I think my statement still stands pretty well as a general rule.

Oh and the only Santa Monica games I've played are Twisted Metal: Black (2001) and God of War (2005) so I'll simply abstain from an opinion on them as it doesn't seem fair to me to judge them based on experience that is now two decades old.

edit: also I see you were downvoted and while I know that doesn't matter, just want you to know that I didn't downvote you and I don't think you said anything inappropriate or off-topic so I wish whoever did had not.

[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

FromSoft and Santa Mónica release amazing AAA games and are always respectful to their player base. GoW Ragnarok just released a free DLC a month ago. FromSoft charges 60 dollars for games that have 200 times the content of other games that charge 70 dollars. Zero micro transactions. DLCs are always mind blowing and at great prices.

I really have no idea why they downvoted, these two companies are just good guys. I'd love to hear if they have something negative to say about these companies.