alt Hacker NewsI'm not sure AAA studios are as large, or as profitable, as you think. The studio itself is often small, large publishers just own many of them.
I'm not sure AAA studios are as large, or as profitable, as you think. The studio itself is often small, large publishers just own many of them.
Small like 30 people? I don't think so. Genuinely small studios are able to preserve their games for the long-term, so there is no excuse.
AAA gaming isn't something that needs to be protected. Anything of sufficient magnitude and budget should be made responsibly or not at all. If a game is unable to exist without screwing over the user in a very legal sense, it has no right to exist. The requests of SKG are not only sensible, they impose a serious legal ambiguity in the current system that needs to be corrected one way or the other.
AAA was always an untenable monster that brought obscene risk; this was clear even in the mid-2010s and the industry is rapidly moving away from that model for good reason. The user-base clearly does not look kindly on AAA anymore either. That's why they are not profitable anymore. The SKG requirements would make very little impact overall compared to this.