• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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      They were probably thinking they could get AAA game quality and indie game budgets, just by injecting a well known license.

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        I kinda hate that about companies. The ones who make hairbrained decisions are never the ones who pay the consequences.

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        Stray pulled off AAA quality on a tiny budget using something loved by a lot of people (cat protagonist) but it had a number of advantages, primarily you don’t need licensing fees for cats, the dev time was deep into “purely a labor of love” length, and I don’t think it came out near any releases of a superior direct competitor. Any adventure epic right now had to contend with FF16 and people still messing around with Tears of the Kingdom.

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      They were thinking they’ll get their golden parachute regardless of their effort, and the workers will take the fall, just like they did here, so fuck project quality!