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850M$ revenue on 70M$ budget sounds a huge success.
Echinoderm ( @Echinoderm@aussie.zone ) English18•7 months agoFulifilling your dreams is all about the power of persistence folks! That, and having a friend willing to invest almost $70M in your dream.
thanks_shakey_snake ( @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ) 10•7 months agoLet us not forget the revolutionary idea to-- now pay attention cause this is BIG-- to prioritize player experience! Can’t believe nobody has thought of that before.
DdCno1 ( @DdCno1@beehaw.org ) 6•7 months agoThe player experience of running into invisible walls every five meters?
thanks_shakey_snake ( @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ) 2•7 months agoLook, they only had $70m to work with, okay? You gotta make some compromises when you’re on such a shoestring budget.
Wukong’s 70M$ is fairly small compared to the other AAA games.
DdCno1 ( @DdCno1@beehaw.org ) 7•7 months agoJust like Chinese wages are pretty small compared to Western wages. Nonexistent in many cases.
sunbather ( @sunbather@beehaw.org ) 5•7 months agosource? plus “western wages” is a pretty broad range and doesnt really mean anything without context
DdCno1 ( @DdCno1@beehaw.org ) 6•7 months agoAs for the nonexistent salary, that’s a reference to the millions of slaves:
https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studies/china/
ShinkanTrain ( @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ) English2•7 months agoI wonder how much of that is marketing. That eats up most of a AAA game budget and I don’t think it was heavily advertised outside of China (where it had a big marketing campaign)
Ricky Rigatoni ( @rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ) 12•7 months agoMonkey 🐵
ShinkanTrain ( @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ) English4•7 months agoHmm monke
WldFyre ( @WldFyre@lemm.ee ) 11•7 months agoAren’t these the “we don’t need female players” devs?
apparently they don’t.
WldFyre ( @WldFyre@lemm.ee ) 5•7 months agoUnsurprisingly and unfortunately, there are plenty of sexist, dumb chud Gamers™ who don’t care about sexist developers.
it was an intentional mistranslation by a hit piece, who was retalliating after GameScience rejected SBI.
WldFyre ( @WldFyre@lemm.ee ) 8•7 months agoI’ve not seen any evidence it was a mistranslation, and they’ve made multiple similar comments. And there’s a few in-game moments that also reflect that type of casual misogyny. I’ve also seen it commented on by several outlets and players in the genre, so I have no idea what you mean by “hit piece” since I’m not referring to a single article.
Second, why on earth wouldn’t you open with this as your argument instead of “apparently the sexist comment by the devs was right”?? Lol it seems like you support the Gamergate level sexism smh
Critical support for sexist game devs is praxis, apparently /s
You just convinced me to gift a copy for my friends birthday.
WldFyre ( @WldFyre@lemm.ee ) 5•7 months agoShocking, no argument or refutation from a sexist chud.
it’s a really good game and the sexism is imaginary.
ShinkanTrain ( @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ) English3•7 months agoHow much did those miHoYo games cost to make?