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submitted 15 hours ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

$200M before the Sony acquisition and $200M after. It's a little hard to believe. The story seems to only be coming from Colin Moriarty right now, but I trust Jordan Middler to consider it at least reasonably plausible if he wrote it up for VGC.

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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 31 points 12 hours ago

When are publishers going to realize there is only a market for like 2-3 Live service games at any one time?

You cannot underestimate the stupidity of games publishers. I'd be willing to accept that sunk-cost alone is the explanation for this outrageous budget. It probably started out as "what's $200m for the next Fortnight?" and just went in $5 or $10 million dollar increments from there.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Everyone thinks they will have their own Apex, a game so good it could still carve out it's place among the established behemoths.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

I don't understand why they don't wait till the other ones die, like look at how successful marvel rivals beta was.

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