r/memes • u/Yolo065 • 1d ago

Leave them alone🤬🤬🤬

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u/Few-Requirements 1d ago edited 1d ago

The margins are insanely large.

Pfft, that's a great joke.

Oh, you're serious.

I really want to see what "margin" you are specifically thinking of.

AAA game dev is one of the highest risk industries in the world. Games generate losses constantly. 2023 and 24 saw about 50'000 layoffs across the industry. With 1500 more in 2025.

One of the biggest game publishers in the world is on the brink of shuttering.

So please, be specific. What margins?

Edit: Go figure, the person I responded to mentioned nothing about "margins" and instead claimed "We have better tools, AI and Unreal Engine so games are easy and cheap to make now". What a fucking moron.

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u/iMercilessVoid 1d ago

I'm pretty sure this is because developers are constantly pushing half baked ideas through to market, and consumers are getting tired of buying AAA slop

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u/Few-Requirements 1d ago

This argument is so fucking tired.

There are considerably more critically acclaimed and award winning games now, than there was 10 years ago, and again 10 years before that.

The only way you think "AAA is constant slop" is if someone gave you a frontal lobotomy, and locked you in a crate while oddly only drip feeding you bad games. So, has that happened, and we should call someone? Or are you just that dumb?

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u/iMercilessVoid 1d ago

Have you seen what games are winning awards recently? Indie devs have taken so many awards that normally go to AAA development studios, that alone tells you that AAA games are not what they used to be. Devs are forced to make games they aren't passionate about, and it really shows. COD is practically a joke, AAA devs have spent hundreds of millions of dollars making cheap knockoffs of hero shooters or battle royales in the last 10 years and then drop them shortly after release, and pretty much every AAA game releases in a broken state that must be patched into some semblance of working order. If that's not slop, I don't know what is.