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Activision Opens New Studio, Elsewhere Entertainment, Focusing On 'Narrative-Based' AAA Franchise |

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited May 17 in News & Features Discussion

imageActivision Opens New Studio, Elsewhere Entertainment, Focusing On 'Narrative-Based' AAA Franchise | MMORPG.com

Activision has announced that they have formed a new studio with the sole focus being a "narrative-based and genre-defining AAA franchise."

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  • DhampirDhampir Member UncommonPosts: 188
    all i can say about this is ....wow...
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  • RobokappRobokapp Member UncommonPosts: 155
    shame. I wish I knew what made you say that.
  • OldKingLogOldKingLog Member RarePosts: 601
    edited May 17
    Holy crap I think I just OD-ed on corporate doublespeak. Wake me up when they get to the part about their core competencies, bandwidth and blue sky thinking.

    riningear
  • JudgeUKJudgeUK Member RarePosts: 1,700
    'genre-defining AAA franchise' what more could you ask for......
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,059
    edited May 17
    JudgeUK said:
    'genre-defining AAA franchise' what more could you ask for......
    Target release dates?  I'm thinking somewhere around 2030 to 2034 maybe?




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  • AngrakhanAngrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,840
    Developers who are experts at storytelling... Ok that line gets some major side eye from me because as a developer myself I can tell you that there's absolutely nothing about the skill set of writing quality code that improves your ability to tell stories unless maybe you're telling stories about writing code.

    Some possibilities:

    1. They are misusing the term developers like a lot of gamers do to refer to anyone that works at a gaming studio. The janitor is a developer. The receptionist is a developer. The HR team are developers.

    2. They are misusing the term storytelling to refer to the fact they built games that told stories. However they themselves did not write the narrative or dialogue.

    3. You're about to see some amateur hour story telling by people not qualified to tell stories.

    I recommend they hire some actual writers to do the storytelling although maybe they're going to delegate that to ChatGPT.
    Kyleran
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