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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 7842855" data-attributes="member: 4348">If an AAA game is ONLY 20M, then the entire idea that Turque cannot make one is ludicrous.If it is ONLY about money and team size...I don't see a problem with claiming the ability to make an AAA game (especially under the HASBRO umbrella.  Anyone thinking Hasbro has no money or is very small should probably reanalyze who HASBRO is).If it is about SALES...than it becomes much more subjective.  There are many games I've seen over the years that say they are AAA games, and have sold to stores...but the sale through rate stinks (meaning the stores get them on the shelves, but then they don't sale and you see the game in the $20 bin a few months later in droves).  If EA makes a game that no one buys...is that an AAA game or is it something else.  If a small company makes something like...say...Minecraft (which when it was made was VERY SMALL initially) is that a AAA game...or is it just an Indie.It's amazing how sales seems to paint our perceptions.  After an initial game gets started and then starts selling more and advancing (and with more money the team sometimes grows much bigger, sometimes not) our perception of whether it is AAA or not seems MORE based on popularity than what some try to paint it in regards to a standard idea.As I said, a look up on Wiki seemed to indicate a Mid sized company (which you define as 100 people...and more than 100 are probably going to be included in the making of the Turque games when you include Hasbro and WotC side of things who are connected to Turque even if not employed directly inside of it) AND a blockbuster.It doesn't have to be Activision to be an AAA game.I think there is some elitism going on where a few want to put down WotC gaming before it has even occurred.What comes next may not be an AAA game, or it may be, but deciding right off the bat that there is no way they can make an AAA game is trying to paint anyone else beyond one's favorite game publishers as lesser...IN MY OPINION.And yes, that IS an uneducated opinion, based probably only upon what I've read in Wikipedia and such.  However, I don't see from that why some are instantly saying Turque cannot make an AAA game.  With Hasbro they have FAR MORE resources than they ever did on their own, and to try to limit those resources of Hasbro to what Turque had before the acquisition is not giving enough credit to WotC or HASBRO nor even acknowledging some of the reasons HASBRO would have taken the risk to obtain them in the first place.</blockquote>

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