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Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they've become: 'If you don't innovate, especially in games, you start losing people' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I think that isn‘t really the case though, is it?

Sure, there are those, who just play the latest Call Of Duty each year. But the success of very innovative games like Balatro, Papers Please, Vampire Survivors or even Breath of the Wild shows, that many consumers crave innovation, if it turns out to be fun innovation.

This also shows that these games can be found and appreciated, even if they‘re made by totally unknown people or studios.

[–] ILikeBoobies 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They’re oddities not the norm unfortunately, this exists even within the same genre to an extent so I think asking people to leave the genre entirely is difficult to pull off

I don’t think BOTW counts for this though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sorry, I'm not sure if I'm getting your point. I don't think anyone's asking anyone to leave their favorite genre for innovation's sake. I just think these games show, that customers are totally ready to spend money on innovative games, even if they're certainly rarer than less innovative titles. So I find it hard calling consumers risk adverse, in general.

I think they're just adverse to games which aren't fun, which could arguably be more common with more innovative titles, but, seeing Ubisoft's downfall over the past few years, I'd argue that samey, "safe" games seem to be very low the average consumer's fun scale as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think game enthusiasts (i.e. people hanging on the Internet to talk about games) don't realize the difference in sales for a successful innovative game (Stardew Valley for example) and mainstream games... Sure Stardew sold 40m copies since 2016, but CoD sells 10m+ every year!