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EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I'm going to chime in on the "never even heard of this game" train.

And based on that, I'll "tinfoil hat" a bit: the game doesn't seem to have any kind of mtx (it does have a deluxe edition items which apparently offer boosts) - so the publisher didn't push the game as hard as it does with it's live service games -> very few even have heard of this game.

edit: because sources: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Immortals_of_Aveum#Monetization - didn't do any further research on the matter.

edit2: also, on the article:

... trying to make a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea, especially since it was a new IP that was also trying to leverage Unreal Engine 5. What ended up launching was a bloated, repetitive campaign that was far too long."

...so, they even admit it themselves that it's pretty meh? And then it's framed like single-player games just don't sell.. what?

[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep, never heard of it until just now. A quick trip to youtube for gameplay vids makes the first 15 minutes look pretty good though. The gameplay would totally get repetitive fast, and the vid I watched didn't get into the skill trees. If the level up mechanics give you more spells to choose from, rather than just increasing the numbers for the 3 spells you start with, I think the game has potential. Right now, it seems like something I would like to try first and maybe buy a physical copy that can't be disabled when some corporate licensing deal falls apart (and make backups of the installer).

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda sounds like fairly decent mid-price AA-release the way you put it.

HowLongToBeat puts it around 15h (https://howlongtobeat.com/game/118227) - for a modern title that isn't even overly long, so got to wonder how does it manage to be "bloated, repetitive campaign that was far too long" as the dev (?) in the article was quoted saying...

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

My guess is because the gunplay is limited and gets stale fast.

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