Its crazy how many new game studios keep popping up

[The Mad Titan]

Bruh

 

[MeachTheMonster]

You realize part of those increased budgets are due to marketing, right? Those games typically have more exposure and higher sales potential because in general they are spending a lot more money to put it in front of people. Even some of those indie games we hear about year round, have extremely high marketing budgets.

All that shyt is relative. The bar is raised but everything else is raised with it, if you have microsoft, sony, Nintendo, Annapurna, Digital Devolver, etc. pushing your game you’re already in a different league than other indie developers

No it’s not due to marketing.

EVERYTHING cost more to make as time goes on. The console market is still making the same amount money it made 20 years ago. Games have gone from 100 people making them to 1000 people making them and the revenue they make has not jumped 10 times.

 

[Batsute]

They tired of the bullshyt and arbitrary deadlines these companies run with.

One of the biggest indie devs came to us with a request to get something done in 3 weeks. including project prep and setup it can take us a 2-3 just to setup and the actual work takes 3-6 months. Gaming industry is so fukkin unorganized from sales to management.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]