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While Baldur's Gate 3 is being widely celebrated by fans and developers alike, some are panicking that this could set new expectations from fans. Good.

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The expectations have been set for a long time. BG3 isn't the first good game. It's just the first in a while, after mountains of AAA garbage ultimately driven by shareholders and MBAs.

The sad thing is: those people are so clueless that they dont see they'd make more money by just not getting in the way of a good dev team.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago

The problem with your second statement is that it is patently untrue.

That is why rocketed has been milking GTA microtransactions. The GachaGaming reddit tracks a series of microtransaction-heavy mobile games. They make hundreds of millions (as much as an entire AAA very hyped game release) quarterly through microtransactions.

Companies have come out and said that microtransactions are more profitable than making new games which is why they are shoehorned into every damn piece of game possible by AAA studios.

I hate microtransactions and I wish it wasn't the case, but stupid kids with daddy's credit card and stupid gamers and whales make bad games with microtransactions very profitable.

[–] MoonlitSanguine@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Fans expectations for games are already insanely high. Baldur's Gate 3 isn't going to change much.

Also the video implies that this complaint is industry wide but only has 3 tweets (or X's?).

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

This just feels like an excuse of this IGN content creator to rant against developers.

[–] eleefece@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I believe the correct term is "Xhit" or "excretion"

[–] hanni@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago

Your expectations from video game journalism is too high.

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