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Where the Hell did that money go? Because it sure as Hell wasn't marketing.

Makes sense when you realise these corporations are using these games as mechanisms for money laundering.

I'm old enough to remember when $125 million was EA's entire year of revenue.

From Wikipedia: **After Telltale games went bankrupt in 2018, most of the developers working at the studio moved to Ascendant Studios, including Ascendant Studios' art directors Dave Bogan and Julia Lichtblau, and lead writer Michael Kirkbride. The studio grew from 50 developers to over 100 developers in less than a year.[4]** **The studio announced its first game, Immortals of Aveum, at The Game Awards 2022 and It will be published under Electronic Arts' EA Originals program.[5] In 2023, Ascendant Studios announced that their first major game, Immortals of Aveum, will be released on July 20, 2023.[6] The game was later delayed to August 22, 2023.[7]** This development studio was founded in 2018. They managed to release literally one game in five years - Aveum came out on August 22, 2023. This is such an insanely bad development period that heads ought to have rolled. You have to ask: what the HELL were they doing? By all accounts they should have been able to do something because EA obviously didn't care, on top of having no marketing, no hype, no oversight. Most Hollywood movies are overpriced money laundering schemes and the top 0.1% of actors are so ridiculously overpaid you could make 3-4 budget movies on each individual's salary. Duane "The Rock" Johnson gets paid in excess of >50 million alone. We're talking 200-400 million USD per Hollywood movie, and MOST of that is going towards actors, who aren't even relevant anymore. The rest of the budget is wasted on backroom deals which is why every movie has been a complete flop - movies have to make back over two times their production cost to just break even. So, EA sank $125m into Aveum and did nothing to support it. A vidya equivalent to any movie flop. Just what were these hundreds of people DOING for five years, getting paid for what? This isn't a simple matter of useless roles and useless positions that plague the film industry. Aveum is the best 'case in point' for everything wrong with entertainment mediums. Also it was probably just a tax-writeoff and/or financial crime. But sure, blame the gamers and say that releasing single-player FPS games is the problem. Not like DOOM wasn't successful, or tons of indie devs like the guy behind Dusk.

No, a AAA single player shooter is not an awful idea, a Modern Audiences game is.

EA can't do no wrong. EA cares about us, devs and sea turtles!

I heard that Spidersh*t 2 cost like 300 million to make.

My 14.4 kbps modem is feeling the member berries of that opening, and squealing in happiness.

I've never heard of this game until this point, I'm not even making a joke. Piracy is ethical.

_"%&@# you, EA! You killed 'Ultima'! %&#@ you!"_ - The _other_ 'Spoony One'

Games keep getting more expensive. They also keep getting worse, same with movies. How is that possible? Has the industry been so corrupted with incompetent professionals? Even a game like Red Dead Redemption 2 (or more accurately "GTA with horses") has some odd design flaws and weird design choices, something that wasn't present in RDR. In any case, on the topic of uhh... Floyd jokes: "What song did they play during his funeral? Every Breath You Take by 'The Police'."

I don't think I heard the name of this game until this video.

This had to be a dedicated move by EA, so they won't have to make single player games ever again. They made a flop, including all the suspects. ESG, FGT pandering; strong, independent, repulsive women; climate change propaganda, universe filled with sht skins, the list goes on. No wonder it was a failure...

Reminds me of that comic starring current day Whoopi Goldberg. So strange that readers and gamers don't care for over the hill leading characters that judge you because you like women your own age. No seriously, look up her comic the cover is the same as this game's!

Must be expensive to sustain an ESG team

Woke Programmers imagine people will go “Shut up and take my money!” But reality the customers will go “Hahaha! Oh you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder. HAHAHAHAHAH!!!”

literally never even heard of this game either. Did they even try to promote it?

The 40 million on advertising had to have been a laundering scheme. Good luck finding anyone who had heard of this game before the recent articles talking about what a megaflop it was.

If the first thing I see from a game, movie or whatever, is a black woman, I ignore the whole thing until I hear something positive from a very trusted source. This has yet to happen.

They spent 40 million in advertising for this game, where at? I have never even heard of this game until I started watching this video, lol.

where the hell did they spend the 40mil ? marching powder and hookers? there was not a single ad for this game ANYWHERE. not even the games "journalists" were paid to write articles about it

I can remember when you loaded games off tapes. Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, Dark Star, Forbidden Planet, Elite, Spellbound, Driller and Dark Fusion on the ZX Spectrum were my favourite games.

"Trying to run a 100 meter dash with your legs tied together, ones broken, and you're drunk and fat facing the wrong fucking direction." Is one of the best sentences ever constructed.

I was playing ‘Crysis’ last night .. first time ever, bought it in 2017 and only just bothered. Brilliant game, largely because you play as a Special Ops MALE badass. Ahh .. good times.

I get the fact that things have advanced since atari. But the fact that these budgets are getting super inflated makes me think it smell to much like bird risedue for no foul play to involved.

You can't spell failure without EA.

I go all the way back to the Tandy 1000, Sierra Adventure Games, Zork, Dark Castle and Thexder.

money laundry

These devs seem to be following the Uwe boll style of business

At this point I'm convinced these megaflops are just money laundring.

As a game, it was great for heating up graphics cards.

Good God man that bit at the end literally almost killed me. I wasn't expecting to laugh and I laughed and I was eating. If I didn't know how to self-heimlech I could've died possibly.

Oi! Noticing is restricted! You got a license for that there pattern recognition!

When you said "Black Thorn," my entire childhood flashed before my eyes 😅

A game being forgotten like this is worse than being hated.

I didn't even know it was a thing. I had no idea this game came out. Not even as a "so bad you need to see this and laugh at it" kinda thing. So marketing was an issue right off the bat. But the "EA" tag on it is a point against, and as you said, the timing for the release was terrible. It's really bad when normal people see these things and think "how could they be this stupid?"

There has been this trend me and friend had noticed with mordern gaming after 2020. The games made by AAA companies are often benchmark simulators, specificly made for rich people that can afford the latest and most expansive hardware, praying that game will work. We litteraly ended saying up that anybody that wants or got the gtx 4080 was probably a benchmark player. Like why else would you buy 4080 if not to benchmark your pc? There are a lot more games in steam that dont even require that stupid videocart.

Not surprising they pin the blame on everything else beside their own poor choices. Which I when to go and take a look at the steam reviews for this game. One of the negative reviews said the game only had three weapons to choose from. If true. Warhammer 40k space marine the video game had more weapons and that was released in 2011. Republic commando as well and that was 2005, back before disney ruin star wars. Heck even one of the positive reviews for immortal here, talks about it having performance issues seven months after release. So huge budget, for a studio first game. Takes a very long time to release. Limited variety in gameplay. Performance issues, needs a high demanding computer to run it. Release at a time, when most people are busy playing hyped up sequels. Geez I wonder why this failed. Maybe they game just sucks or they picked a poor time to release it. Rather than being no demand for single player shooters. For last I looked, the robocop game release last year was rather popular. Which that was a single player shooter. Hmm. You know what i'm thinking. There is a demand for good single player shooters. Not random trash you thrown onto market.

It truly amazes how bloated budgets are getting. Indie devs and filmmakers are lucky to see seven digits in their budgets and yet they're the ones innovating the most either idea or tech wise. As the saying goes "If I can't buy it, I'll make it myself." If you truly want something to work then you have to make it yourself which reduces cost pretty quickly. Just look at all the crazy stuff the director of Godzilla Minus one had to do. Yes that's a bit bigger compared to others but that man and his team was determined and it shows.

I saw this game come out, completely randomly on my feed. I watched the trailer. Went, "meh" and forgot about it. In all honesty, the fact that I barely remember this trailer and game, is a miracle. I have a hunch that this was a money laundering scheme or something of the like. Makes me miss when game studios actually had the balls to be creative, rather than derivative.

The way you said "Where the fuuuuck" at 4:00 had me rolling, and I lost count of how many times I hit back to hear it again. I can't explain why, just something about how you said it really got me good.

1:45 ah yes, the days of runescape being the game I wasted hours on my computer playing instead of my phone

I haven't heard of this game until this video.

I had no Idea this was a thing. Meanwhile I'm playing a game from 2010. Repeal the 19th.

Thanks Spoon! Now I have MemMaker flashbacks from the DOS era trying to free conventional memory to play my games. 😢

singleplayer fps games can be great in fact. Turbo overkill released the same year and it was fucking amazing. Too bad i can't play it anymore because my g305 broke

I think I saw two ads for this game last year and that was it. Funny enough the more ads I see for a thing the less inclined I am to buy the thing.

Who? What? Never even heard of it.

What makes less sense is that EA once again launched a game sandwiched in between bigger and more well-known IPs.

I notice the more money they pour in, the worse the title is. But then again they get in these "other" people and probably pay them exorbitant amounts of money for them to draw a line on a piece of paper.

Money laundering. It’s the same thing with movies. Bloat the project, siphon off loads of cash, pay a pittance to the developers and run away.

EA releasing a game at a bad time ain't new. I still remember when they screwed Titanfall 2 releasing between Battlefield and Call of Duty.

Someone at EA was clearly high as f when they approved that budget.

2:09 Titanfall 2 moment

This is money laundering. It's the modern day B movies industry.

I remember I saw this game at SGF I forgot it even existed.

So $40MM for marketing and the first anyone hears of it is the stories about how it's sales failed? Hopefully the 40 people laid off were out of that marketing department because they clearly failed at their mission.

Imagine what Vee could produce with that kind of budget for his debut title... Hehehe, I hope one day he has that kind of "F. You" money to put on a project, I have faith he'd make every dollar count and the work would show it.

"No, we don't want to make Alice: Asylum and no you can't make it yourself cuz the IP is too meaningful to our portfolio despite not functioning on pc, but we're gonna blow 125M on garbage" lmao

DOS, GUI, command prompts, 3.5s, 486s, and Pentium I. Goddamnit, Spoon, now I feel old. No, wait, my first computer was a Commodore 64. Now I feel ancient.

i saw that amount AND that it was a debut game and thought, must be a lot of diversity in that project.

I never heard of this game until just now

So that headline is a bit of a lie. Namely, the game isn't "singleplayer" in the same sense that Dead Space is a singleplayer action-horror series. It's a multiplayer always online looter-shooter, with the standard games-as-service delivery method for both content and monetization that can be played alone. What baffles me is that despite it's flaming garbage fire story and dialogue, Borderlands remains the best looter shooter for at least the gameplay gets what people want out of that kind of game. Shoot enemies and get gear, to then shoot tougher enemies for better gear, repeat for as long as it remains fun. I just keep returning to Palworlds CEO and wondering why no one else seemingly has the curiosity to ask, "what do people like, and can we make it?"

I'll never forget playing Wolfenstein on our first computer! It was a 486 and started up in DOS. Had 2 different size disc drives (what's a CD?)

I didn't know this game existed...

im at the point where if i see a black female main character, my interest immediately evaporates. It sucks because that didn't really happen 5 or 10 years ago. The real victims are the smaller devs who want that kind of main character for non woke reasons who's games are being completely ignored by me and people like me.

The days of 3.5 and the days of DOS. You don’t need to repeat yourself.

Hoyoverse could tell them why it didn't sell.

Never even heard of this game til today 😂

The only reason I heard about this game was because of Synthetics mans playthrough, and I did see you video on rumble about the comedian the whiny n's were hilarious.

Never even heard of this game until I heard it flopped.

It seems all by design

good old DOS days but its not too bad today either i feel

A woke project that goes up and smoke? I never seen that /s

mmm.. DOS nostalgia

The young people in my life play Roblox, Fortnite, Subway Surfer, FIFA, Valorant and Fortnite. It really is those games and basically nothing else. When I was a kid the diversity of games we played was wide, even though I was a teen during the PS2/GameCube era people were still playing games as far back as NES and games on PC like Warcraft and Command and Conquer but I don’t hear about kids playing some of the key games from when I was younger like… - Street Fighter - MMO’s (particularly WOW guess MMO’s are dead) - Final Fantasy (back then Final Fantasy meant 6-10 but I never hear about anyone playing 11-16? The kids don’t care). - Resident Evil: Very popular because of the movies but yeah kids don’t care. The only AAA title that any kid I know was talking about was Last of Us 2 which they said was alright. I don’t see that same “whoa this is awesome! From kids when it comes to games now”. When I was a kid we had adverts of kids playing games and their hair was flying backwards and the character reaches out of the screen and pulls the kid into the TV and the narrator hyped up the game and then at the end it was like “Simpsons Hit and Run. Doh!” Or something like that. Games for the youngsters are like these social things, they play the game and voice chat about whatever and the game is secondary.

Dude, I still play Warcraft 2 on PC thanks to the Good Old Games app. That game still has a great feel and aesthetic.

There is an even deeper level of self-destruction here. A cornerstone of Progressive thought is that there is no such things as 'quality' but all things of 'quality' are only seen that way because of how much resources went into the product/service. Thus something isnt "good" but the thing would be expensive or bougie. Yet here we have a new studio full of people who self-evidently wont want to lose their jobs - so theyre trying the best they can. With the financing and budget of one of gamings biggest companies (EA), pushing messages that the left think everyonr supports. And this steelman with everything going for them but the release window completely and totally fails. Leftism must only be popular certain times of the year, I guess.

And their side says they are successful culturally and economically speaking.

Yes indeed, where the FUHRK did all that money go?

Paid $8 for IoA and I’m kinda still let down. Gameplay & abilities & enemies gets worse after the demo area. I find aiming to be miserable on Xbox & the combat is NOT fun

Alot of projects released nowadays just have too big a budget for something that's not even guaranteed to be great/a big hit. GTA 6 is rumored to cost 1 billion dollars and yet I have full confidence that will make back double it's budget in just the first few days...

You think you know technology? I was baptized in the light from a black and white CRT. I was raised on sub 1Ghz processor speeds. I didn't see the internet until I was already a man.

the cost was most likely covered. the thing with propaganda is that people are paid to make it

EA should just stick to what it's good at, copy and paste last years sports games, put a new number at the end, and add a feature they took out, 4 games ago, while calling it a new thing...

You played Blackthorne? That's odd, I just thought about that game and looked it up a day or two ago. That stuff was great

Honestly, I've never even heard of this game. They didn't do any real marketing yet are surprised no one bought it lol.

I think I may have heard of this game. The art looks familiar. However, it must have been super forgettable because I do not remember a scrap of the gameplay.

Careful, Spoon. Noticing is apparently evil and anti-, um, everything these days

This is the first time i have heard the name Aveum... sucks to be them i guess.

With Tekken 8 and Helldivers 2. 2024 has been the best year of games in a long time

"Call of Duty with magic" he will say it's gay... yep. If you ever listened to the classified English football league results on a Saturday in the 80s and 90s there was a game where you could guess the score by the tone the announcer would say the team names. I was good at that game and it is a transferable skill.

LOL, I used to developed 2D games in Turbo Pascal 5.5 and MSDOS 3.3 xD

I played the beta or demo or whatever and really had fun But i dont pay full price for new games so i was gonna wait a bit I guess itll drop in price faster than i thought lol

I suspect that this “game” was just a very complex scheme to launder money from ESG funds

EA Sports is their only best revenue maker.

I only heard of this game from Oboeshoes and it looked repetitive as hell. Months later I would see adverts of this game on KZfaq and around that time, the game was dead as no one else talked about it in my recommendation page.

I can't exactly feel bad for EA getting scammed, but I will feel bad as all that money went to the pockets of California modern game activists, I mean designers. These developers got rich off the game will definitely be infecting gaming as they move onto other new projects.

One thing I don't understand is how no one listened. We all knew this game had about as much appeal as a dog turd sandwich.