Why AAA Games Keep Dying While Minecraft Lives Forever

Another heavily marketed AAA live service shooter just imploded.

First it was Concord. Now Highguard joins the growing digital graveyard. Meanwhile, Bungie’s upcoming Marathon reboot already faces skepticism from longtime fans who look at the footage and wonder what happened to the franchise they once loved.

Author David Stewart recently did a thorough game autopsy in a video that cuts to the heart of AAA gaming’s deepest delusions: Executives keep looking at wildly successful live service titles and concluding that their success can simply be replicated through sufficient funding and market research.

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