Development cost:
Baldurs gate 3 - 100 million USD
Cyberpunk 2077 - 436 million USD
Starfield - 200 million USD
Elden Ring - 200 million USD
Genshin Impact - Hundreds of millions USD
Spiderman 2 - 300 million USD
GTA VI - Expected budget costs to be more than 2 billion USD
Triple A games are only getting more expensive with time, and they are still turning a profit over time.
Expect a most expensive game ever made every 2-3 years with how things are going.
A decade ago people were writing articles about how video game budgets are ballooning, since then video game budgets have continued to balloon ever since with no real slowdown.
Additional fun fact:
Everything cutting edge in tech development currently costs 10s of billions to hundreds of billions to advance further. Only the richest countries and the top multinational corporations are in a position to make those kinds of moves to keep pushing humanity's capabilities further up. If your country GDP is less than a trillion USD, then you are pretty much cut off from participating in the future and developing it further.
Only 19 nation states can afford to assist in building the future, along with 7 corporations.
At current rates the world won't be able to afford to make revolutionary games in another decade or two. Imagine 500 million USD being the norm by 2030, and a billion being the norm by 2040.
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How did genshin cost "hundreds of millions" that shit looks like a unity asset flip
!g*mers defend or decry hoyoslop, genshin is absolute fricking trash
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I doubt it cost anything like that for it's 1.0 version, but it's an ongoing development game.
I imagine a lot of it's costs are literally server/infrastructure for the player base as well because it's an always online game.
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Fair on both points, animecoomers proven most intelligent superspecies yet again
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most of that money went into r and d in order to make the ultimate gooner bait nut slop characters
the fact they are covered head to toe only makes them sexier then other gooner bait like Nikke 
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Honestly genshin characters are so plain, prudish, and ungoonable I really wonder why they're popular
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goonerism is so advanced that prudish characters are more attractive to gooners then super sexy bait one
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they can't go full coomer because of Chinese laws so they go as close as they can but make the girls all have the "cute and wholesome" personality since that's all chinks want
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Yeah they're not particularly memorable or that interesting, the game itself also feels like it's just a vehicle for the FotM character.
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Given that hoyo is literally making a new gacha game every year, yeah I think all their designs are just chasing a fotm trend and aren't genuinely interesting
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I also mean their personality and writing. It's just random anime bullshit.
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God I could not make it through more than an hour or so of genshit. In a sea of generic anime bullshit plots it is THE most generic anime bullshit plot.
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I do think it's somewhat funny though, how they do pay some lip service to gnosticism by putting random biblical names in random places, and calling the false deities 'archons'. Like it's really uh. Wow.
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i think theyre a bit overdesigned tbh
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remember when it first released people called it MMO BOTW?
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BOTW is also trash so genshit is doubletrash
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I like Genshin's art style and play literally just to explore and look at anime girls while I have woman crying ASMR / detailed true crime playing in the background.
For the cost it's a live service game with like a 66 million active players and they have to optimize that shit to run on even on phone. My ~2018ish released laptop with a GTX 1050 can run it, tho it takes a bit of space.
Plus they add like a new region that's fairly large every about half a year with a fair number of pretty good quests and hidden chests all over. It's fun just climbing up a mountain and finding like three chests of gear and then flying around to get to the bottom
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And yet games made by a team of less than 10 people that are played with friends end up being infinitely more fun than the latest hundred million dollar triple A single player cinematic slop being churned out.
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Anything played with friends is more fun. It's not the game, it's the friends.
Singleplayer, indie gemeralds are what are truly noteworthy.
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name 1
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Valheim as a current one. Minecraft pre-Microsoft to name another
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Oh yeah, the game that has a bug that turns your seed into a grass planet devoid of resources and everything that was crafted
Lol frick valheim.
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Good thing there were no bugs in any of the hundred million dollar games listed above!
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Yeah, I'm sure any of those games have bugs that impact your game so heavily and easily.
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fair
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hahahahaHAHAHAHAH
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Valheim was fun for a bit but the devs forgot they released an early access and were supposed to keep updating their game. Also the stamina mechanics were cancer.
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My friends and I had a blast getting drunk and playing Content Warning. Before that it was basically the same with Lethal Company or Phasmophobia.
Stepping away from that genre, Pico Park was also really fun, and couldn't have cost more than $50k total to make. (Okay okay maybe $200k depending on who they hired I guess.)
Terraria is also really fun. It has a ton of content at this point so probably had a larger team at some point during development but even the old versions were really fun (back when the Wall of Flesh was the final boss) and I doubt the team was that large for them.
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Good additions. Thank you.
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Gta 6 gunna be game as a service
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None of the games you listed are revolutionary in any way
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They sold alot. Revolutionary profits.
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Genshin prob shouldnt count, because its never ending
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I haven't played it. neverending in what sense
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Ongoing development in story, game world, events, characters, ya know, content. Its content is worth a bunch of games at this point
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oh thats nice. is it bigger than World of Warcraft yet?
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No, warcraft has a good 15 years on it
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How many hours would it take to play through the entirety of warcraft?
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Define entirety?
All zones (quests) and dungeons/raids? I'd say you could finish that in a month or two playing 12-16h a day. Double it for both factions.
Maxxing out reputations, mounts, achievements and other useless collectibles? Never.
I was thinking of making a post about a giga German neurodivergent who is actually trying to collect everything in the game.
He's up there but still not nearly finished: https://www.dataforazeroth.com/characters/EU/Blackmoore/Tel%C3%A1r
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Do it
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ping me again I might do it
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what?
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Brother
it's 20 years that released in '04
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And genshin released like 5 years ago. Do the math?
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I wasn't arguing for or against that just saying it's been around much longer than even 15 years
But I guess
genshin 
has an Asian 
userbase that WOW doesn't right?
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Ok look, the other guy was talking about content. Genshin has been making content for 5 years. WoW has been making content for 20. So when i say it has 15 years on Genshin, we are applying the years of content produced against each other. 20 - 5 is 15.
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I searched online and it says 120 hours to level up fully
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all those millions and yet the games aren't any more fun
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I was just checking Cyberpunk with the photorealism mod and I realize that the GTA VI game would have to invest in two key areas to beat Cyberpunk 2077 as the default go to open world game to impress the world.
1. Better movement animations
2. More interactive environments and game physics
3. Better AI
If it can do these things correctly and later modders can add in a photorealism mod then this game will be the best thing ever made.
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It wouldn't need to be better than cyberpunk to impress the world because rockstar have the media on their side so websites already have their 110/100 best-game-ever made reviews prewritten. Cyberpunk was Polish so all the journos riled people up against it because ew scary eastern europeans are all chuds or something, they're going to eat pierogis fascistly
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Lol gta vi will beat cyberpunk simply by the virtue of being gta vi unless the devs make some colossal frickup
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Why care about making revolution next gen shit? I understands there need to be one who push the boundaries but people gonna use older and cheaper technologies to make their ideas/gamesystem come alive as always. Especially that this medium is not like movies or animation a simplistic graphic might be more than enough.
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That is true but the big budget stuff sells millions of copies. Like hollywood blockbusters.
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I mean this' literally just because of graphics, having to get all new assets for every game and trying to scale that up too.
If the AAAs made smaller, less graphically intensive games it wouldn't cost this much.
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But how will you sell something that doesn't look a lot better?
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Stylize it like Valve did with teaeff tueue or whatever, not really that hard ngmi
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GTA is already stylized though?
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It's realistic sweetie, they need to make it look like fortnite
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Katawa Shoujo and Snoot Game are better than any of these and they were each made by a team of r-slurs for free
SOVL is what truly matters
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MRS. OBAMA GET DOWN!
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