Minecraft also isn't AAA, you can't mix and match completely different arguments to suit your narrative. It basically works against your shallow points as a whole, with your logic and misrperestnation of the various subjects Minecraft Minecraft could be used to show AAA as a whole doesn't matter and doesn't do shit a garage dev working on his own time can't achieve.You can't say VA doesn't matter and point to Minecraft sales. Plenty other games sell on their stories and you need good VA, good writing, good anything, to make that compelling and present it well enough to sell on their strengths (and clearly not all are gunning to be the top selling of the decade either). Also, when they announce crunch time is on like CDP just did, developers could pressure and do have leverage, you can't outsource Cyberpunk to South Korea today because your devs refused to work the extra hours. But then you have Carmack and Jaffe and other out of touch folks tell them that's just the industry they're in and it can never change and how they're not pro crunch but you know that's just how it is. Well fuck your industry and AAA games too, they do not drive the industry forward as you want to claim either, they just don't, they just wave money and sure, waving money works to grab the masses. That's like saying talent and experience is just interchangeable for these corporations with random outsourcing to South Korea. Crunch is forced, Carmack or you wanting to work in your office for 100 hours a week is fine as long as you don't expect those under you to do the same, have preferential treatment to those who choose do the same, fire those who don't choose to do the same and so on. I've worked day and night on this I had a passion for myself, being asked to have that passion at a CEO's whim is silly.