Its just 6 giant supervillains fighting each other over the ruins of tokyo.

Ubisoft is a publisher, not a game dev studio. They publish games made by their child studios. They don’t produce games themselves. > Larian has less than a 1000 employees Yes, they have 500 employees which would be quite large for an Indie development studio. DICE (studio behind the Battlefield games), for example, has 700 employees. CD Project RED, (Cyberpunk, Witcher games), has 615 employees. If budget is the qualifier for AAA, Larian has put out multiple massive budgeted games in both BG3 and Divinity 2. I’m not sure which metric would disqualify Larian as being a AAA studio.

Nobody should ever look up to companies.

To me Larian would be a AA studio.

Maybe they are just a company... Idk how people even developed a parasocial relationship with it

> Ubisoft Paris Mobile, Ubisoft Ivory Tower, Ubisoft Nadeo, Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Owlient, Ubisoft Da Nang, Ubisoft Paris, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Chengdu, Ubisoft San Francisco, Ubisoft Milan, Ubisoft Mumbai, Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Mainz, Ubisoft Bordeaux, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft Saguenay, and Ubisoft Bucharest to name a few are Ubisoft and they produce and publish games. Yes, these are all their children studios. Ubisoft Entertainment (colloquially referred to as just Ubisoft), as an entity, is [a video game publisher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubisoft). Does that make all their children studios AAA? A lot of them don't have massive employee numbers and their budget per game varies greatly lol.

I think it's important to separate Nintendo's legal department from product development. While the products are expensive, they are high quality and are generally enjoyed by their target demographic. Their legal department is a supervillain, sure, but that's a separate thing entirely from the product development side IMO.

I understand the sentiment, but why is this an important separation? The legal department speaks on behalf of Nintendo more than any other branch in the company. It's all a trickle effect from the higher ups and the type of culture they want to develop. As a consumer, whether or not their actions come from legal or product development, it should still reflect on the company as a whole and impact my decisions on what to spend my cash on.

because it made them feel feelings. same reason anyone has any parasocial relationship. apparently people watch people stream or influence and develop feelings for them. i don't personally expereince any of this so it bafflest he crap otu of me... but apparently that makes me mentally ill in the current technology economy where it's considered 'normal' to gift people 100/1000s of dollars to listen to them whine online. at least with Nintendo I am playing for a console and a game to play. not for the experiencing of living viscerally though somebody else.

You can obviously decide to buy whatever you want. My point is that their legal team doesn't seem to impact their product development team much at all. Nintendo develops their IPs pretty consistently, so you're unlikely to get into a situation where they just sit on something and sue the crap out of anyone who tries to use their stagnant IPs. Compare to Disney, who is _more_ litigious and doesn't do a lot with their core IPs (when's the last time you saw Mickey Mouse star in a high profile film or game?). If you like Nintendo products, the good news is they'll continue creating them. The bad news is mostly around preservation, Nintendo _really_ wants you to hang on to old hardware if you want to play old games. They're also _very_ touchy about how their IPs are represented in the media, so be _very_ careful when you use them in a YT video or something.

I was a kid, what the hell did I know.

Hello Games is absolutely NOT a AAA company.

I'm not sure why you're latching onto that part of the argument, the point he's making is Larian is still relatively small and spends less on games then AAA studios.

Coromon seems pretty similar, I only played a small portion so far though

Gamers think they hate video game companies, when they really just hate capitalism.

Yes. It does. Because they are all part of the corporate conglomerate known as : Ubisoft. Just because they are "children studios" doesn't change that they are all under the same umbrella company.