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1. Christi Junior (christijunior@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 03:07:23 JST Christi Junior
   When Monolith Soft can make a healthy profit making extremely high-quality games with ridiculous amounts of content that only sell modestly well, Western AAA devs have no excuse losing money. I dunno what those retarded AAA budgets are spent on, but it can't be the actual games.
   
   https://nintendoeverything.com/xenoblade-developer-monolith-soft-sees-97-8-profit-increase-in-latest-fiscal-year/
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   • of nothing (apropos@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 03:07:27 JST of nothing

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     @ChristiJunior massively bloated staff + management that starts out 'inept' and then descends to 'deranged' and 'treacherous' as external forces are applied and the managers have to hit diversity quotas and make sure the dialogue passes the Bechdel test + having to pay grifters and advertisers to make up for the low quality of the game
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   • Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead: (giganova8@varishangout.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 03:07:30 JST Giganova8 :sob2: :nacho_dead:

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     @ChristiJunior
     Aside from the obvious money sinks of diversity officers and bloated HR/PR departments, modern AAA devs also end up hiring disproportionately massive teams in order to either achieve ridiculous release times or to facilitate cramming in more "realistic" graphics. If an indie game and a AAA game both make $50 million in sales, the indie game might be making millions and millions in pure profit, whilst the AAA game actually lost money, cause the AAA dev is paying 2000+ people and the indie dev is paying maybe 40 at most. :zt_naruhodo:
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   • salty_apollyon (rlier23@bae.st)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 03:07:43 JST salty_apollyon

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     @ChristiJunior
     >dunno what those retarded AAA budgets are spent on, but it can't be the actual games.
     
     Of course not all that money is spent in voice actors, diversity and inclusion commitees and actors to appear in their games
     Oh a d of course they also have to pay their overpayed shitty woke writers
     At the end of the day it's a good thing that western woke faggots can't make a decent videogame
     
     I consider it's a lot more dangerous to have a decent but woke game like idk gg strive
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   • Dragon Zero (william_the_dragonborn@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 03:07:47 JST Dragon Zero

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     @ChristiJunior I will give you a hint: ✡️
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