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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