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

submitted 2 years ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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 2 years ago

And design by committee

[–] odium@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

in house design and modeling

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

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

Ok but hear me out. What about AAAA games?

[–] anteaters@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago

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

[+] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world -11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago

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