Re: Kingdom Come Deliverance II Wins Big

On 16/02/2025 17:55, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

More, some companies -- with Ubisoft and Bethesda being the most
obvious examples-- have am entire process for how they develop and
sell their games. It's why their games often look so much the same;
it's not just the re-use of their engines, but the entire development
process --from the pre-dev visualizing, to how the assets are built,
to the back-n-forth between programming and game-dev-- is a tested,
almost assembly-line methodology. It's not fixed in stone, but changes
are costly and... well, why bother if people are going to buy the end
product anyway?
 

I think a lot of the big studios have kinda painted themselves into a corner as the big budgets that are expected leads to, as you say, a low risk strategy. Then there's the issue of are they even capable of developing a game that isn't based on an existing IP or just the same type of mechanics they almost always have.
How long that is substantial for before people tastes start changing, I don't know. Then you have live services, how many people have being burnt by them and are now wary of pumping a reasonable amount of money into a game only to find out that a year later the servers are shutting down and no you don't get it refund.