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Re:After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to ... by ido on Friday December 05, 2025 @02:37AM (#46157731)
The more people you add the slower you get, not faster. Large companies are nutorously slow moving (and particularly slow to change directions) vs small upstarts.
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Re:After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to ... by baud147258 on Friday December 05, 2025 @03:46AM (#46158170)
yeah, but at this point it's weird they just don't grab a studio, give them a funding for 2 years and say them 'copy the latest indie trends with a tad more polish' and let them cook to see what comes out.
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Re:After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to ... by ido on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:35AM (#46159926)
They tried that, e.g. "EA Originals"[0] is basically that (there are similar programs at other major publishers). I suspect it proved to not be a big money maker at the scale required to move the needle at publishers of that size., and that they are keeping these on as a sort of prestige programs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts#EA_Originals

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