These people are just coping and lying via social media. Baulder’s Gate 3, while Budget undisclosed, was surely made for less than what some of the richest companies in the industry spend on shit game products like Modern Warfare 2 or Assassins Creed games which have quarter of a billion dollars budgets or better.
Latina put this game into early access at full price and ate shit for it. I’ve been playing it for years already, first on Stadia (where it was already excellent, just clearly unfinished).
Tangent, I’m sick of these knuckleheads talking about Larian as if they aren’t a western gaming company based out of Belgium and employing Europeans and others. They know the anti-sino sentiment is politically strong which is why they point to minority shareholdings by Tencent and label Larian an eastern company.
Epic has a bigger claim to being a non-Western gaming company since Tencent owns almost half of them by itself.
These particular devs are apparently either astroturfing messages with political undertones for their employers, chronically online and in desperate need of some Tumblr therapy, or have a conservative’s guilty conscience and are projecting their inadequacy onto everyone else.
You admit to not knowing and then go ahead and just make shit up anyways lol.
It’s fair to criticize games we know have huge budgets for being buggy, unfinished at launch, having bad monetization schemes, etc. But let’s not pretend like BG3 was created by 1 guy in a basement either.
Even the unofficial figures don’t get that high, with RDR2 at $170 million. And looking at these games… I haven’t played them all, but judging off community reactions and review scores it seems like a mix of boom (TLOU2, HFW, RDR2) and bust (Cyberpunk, Star Citizen).
BTW That Wikipedia link is broken, I think it’s the period at the end that’s doing it. I only say this cause on apps you usually can’t edit links so people have to open a browser.
PS: It’s kinda nuts that half, and often way more, of a big game’s budget is marketing, but it makes sense
These people are just coping and lying via social media. Baulder’s Gate 3, while Budget undisclosed, was surely made for less than what some of the richest companies in the industry spend on shit game products like Modern Warfare 2 or Assassins Creed games which have quarter of a billion dollars budgets or better.
Latina put this game into early access at full price and ate shit for it. I’ve been playing it for years already, first on Stadia (where it was already excellent, just clearly unfinished).
Tangent, I’m sick of these knuckleheads talking about Larian as if they aren’t a western gaming company based out of Belgium and employing Europeans and others. They know the anti-sino sentiment is politically strong which is why they point to minority shareholdings by Tencent and label Larian an eastern company.
Epic has a bigger claim to being a non-Western gaming company since Tencent owns almost half of them by itself.
These particular devs are apparently either astroturfing messages with political undertones for their employers, chronically online and in desperate need of some Tumblr therapy, or have a conservative’s guilty conscience and are projecting their inadequacy onto everyone else.
You admit to not knowing and then go ahead and just make shit up anyways lol.
It’s fair to criticize games we know have huge budgets for being buggy, unfinished at launch, having bad monetization schemes, etc. But let’s not pretend like BG3 was created by 1 guy in a basement either.
You mention a quarter billion dollar budget, but only a handful of games have had development budgets officially confirmed to be that high: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop
Even the unofficial figures don’t get that high, with RDR2 at $170 million. And looking at these games… I haven’t played them all, but judging off community reactions and review scores it seems like a mix of boom (TLOU2, HFW, RDR2) and bust (Cyberpunk, Star Citizen).
BTW That Wikipedia link is broken, I think it’s the period at the end that’s doing it. I only say this cause on apps you usually can’t edit links so people have to open a browser.
PS: It’s kinda nuts that half, and often way more, of a big game’s budget is marketing, but it makes sense
Oh thanks. Weirdly it works for me, but I went ahead and deleted the period.