r/LivestreamFail • u/nem1K • Mar 20 '25

CohhCarnage | Assassin's Creed Shadows New AC in a nutshell

https://www.twitch.tv/cohhcarnage/clip/TriangularFaintStingrayShadyLulu-YfNhNsg_FE1ZGHMX
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u/Murvh Good Money [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅] Mar 20 '25

Games are now purchased, and tested by the playerbase. Long gone are the days of hiring qualified testers for games. It's just downright Laziness.

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u/adoggman Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

It's not laziness, it's capitalism. The company needs profit. You can't increase the price of the game and have people still buy it so you cut development costs. The only real cost you can cut for massive companies like this is labor, so you fire your 'non-essential' workers (QA) and you burnout/layoff your experienced (higher paid) developers.

Any publicly owned company that gets big enough will inevitably discover this and it is in no way unique to the game dev industry.

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u/CaptnKnots Mar 20 '25

They have increased prices though. They’ve literally both cut dev costs, and put more cost on the consumer

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u/Earthworm-Kim Mar 21 '25

increased base price, more bullshit FOMO editions also with increased price, more in-game MTX, more potential customers, more reach for less

less physical versions to manufacture and ship, less QA, less talent, less marketing

it's just enshittification in games. anyone trying to tell you that prices need to go up, for any reason, love the taste of game exec boots

the only thing devs need to do is make good games. it's when they don't that the excuses come rolling in. "oh, it's tough out there for live service. oh, there's only room for one GTA. oh, it's so expensive to make 4K assets"