D&D 5E BG3 is once again a Platinium Selling Game in 2024, without selling a DLC.

[mamba]

It's crappy but I think games should really be double or triple the cost up front.

that is like saying that Hollywood should charge $50 per ticket to fix the issue with exploding production costs… if they try that, they make even less money because no one buys their overpriced offering

The price of a product is not based on what allows the manufacturer to make a decent profit but on what the market is willing to pay. Whether that results in a loss or a giant win for the manufacturer does not factor into it

 

[Reynard]

It's crappy but I think games should really be double or triple the cost up front.

Development costs have vastly exceeded growth

They just need to stop chasing hyper visuals. The vast majority of that cost is in graphics. More people play Fortnite than anything else and that thing looks like a bad Saturday morning CGI cartoon from 2010.

 

[Shardstone]

We just gonna' pretend like these studios aren't making a huge profit still? Sorry, I don't think they need to be making more money.

 

[MGibster]

They just need to stop chasing hyper visuals. The vast majority of that cost is in graphics. More people play Fortnite than anything else and that thing looks like a bad Saturday morning CGI cartoon from 2010.

That's what I was thinking. I just got a new computer within the last two weeks with a GeForce RTX 4080 Super graphics card. Are they still cards? I don't even know. I only made this purchase because I expect the economy to get bad and for prices of graphic cards to continue to skyrocket. I started replaying a few games just to see what they looked like, and they really weren't any more fun. Cyberpunk 2077 looked a little bit better as does Baldur's Gate 3, but neither one is more fun to play than they were on my old graphics card.

One of these days, I suspect the video game industry is going to have to abandon their obsession with graphics. I like good graphics, but when the developers of Red Dead Redemption 2 bragged that their horses testicles shrank when the weather got cold, maybe things have gone too far.

I remember marveling at how fantastic the graphics were for Madden 64 on my Nintendo 64.

 

[TwoSix]

I remember marveling at how fantastic the graphics were for Madden 64 on my Nintendo 64.

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And I think that's who the continual focus on graphical upgrades are aimed at; those of us who are old enough to remember marveling at the upgrades provided going from one generation of console to the next.

We got realistic-looking 3D environments by the PS3/Xbox 360 era, since then it's just been general polishing and shinyness. So most gamers under 25 aren't familiar with the idea of oohing and aahing over graphical upgrades.

 

[Reynard]

And I think that's who the continual focus on graphical upgrades are aimed at; those of us who are old enough to remember marveling at the upgrades provided going from one generation of console to the next.

We got realistic-looking 3D environments by the PS3/Xbox 360 era, since then it's just been general polishing and shinyness. So most gamers under 25 aren't familiar with the idea of oohing and aahing over graphical upgrades.

But but raytracing!

 

[DarkCrisis]

This means BG3 is still being bought by alot if folks.

For comparison other Platinium games were either released this year, had a major DLC, or are live service games.

Dragon Age: Veilguard is only Bronze and it was released this year. Guess it should have been turn based I mention this be cause BG3 has been called the successor to the Dragon Age games, and I'm wondering of disappointment in Vielguard drove some folks to buy BG3.

Dragon Age hasn’t been good since the 1st one. All downhill from there.

 

[wicked cool]

Where is this published? What’s does veilguard bronze mean? This all platforms?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

They just need to stop chasing hyper visuals. The vast majority of that cost is in graphics. More people play Fortnite than anything else and that thing looks like a bad Saturday morning CGI cartoon from 2010.

Or Minecraft, the graphics of that game are so bad they make Pool of Radiance's graphics look state of the art, but it's crazy popular.

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

If the main point of your game is PVP grabass or a resource management sim, you can get away with less advanced tech, but graphics and VA definitely matter for emotional storytelling. FAR fewer people would have connected with the characters if they looked like Bethesda's dead eyed jank or minecraft block people.